region under changing climate Maps of water resources for the Nordic region under present (1961-1990) and future (2071-2100) conditions have been produced using the hydrological models HBV and WaSiM-ETH. The maps have been assembled from simulations performed in Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Norway and Sweden using models from the hydrological institutes of each country. Although model structure
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Ice Sheet Surface Mass Balance at Paakitsôq,
West Greenland, Derived from Future Scenario
Regional Climate Model Data
Horst Machguth, Andreas Ahlstrøm, GEUS, Copenhagen
1 Introduction
Greenland has a large potential for hydro-power production due to its abundant availability
of melt water. In the past GEUS has performed intensive glacio-hydrological investigations at
Paakitsôq, West Greenland
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: or@belgingur.is,
Orkugarður, Grensásvegur 9, 108 Reykjavík
ABSTRACT
Atmospheric flow over Iceland has been simulated for the period Jan-
uary 1961 to July 2006, using the mesoscale MM5 model driven by
initial and boundary data from the ECMWF. The simulated precipi-
tation is compared to estimates derived from mass balance measure-
ments on the Icelandic ice caps. It is found that the simulated pre
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