In the evening of 21 July 2014, a large rockslide occurred in Askja, which descended into the caldera lake (Lake Öskjuvatn). The slide was released from the southeastern caldera wall in an area called “Suðurbotnar”. It is one of the largest known rockslides since the settlement of Iceland. The slide covered most
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as the starting point, the relevant themes of a 2009 stakeholder workshop
are examined. In order to deal with the long term (20 years) planning process – in the role of a policy
agency – a backcasting approach is used to develop scenarios (50 years).
The project is using scenarios to understand and structure the uncertainties related to the long term
planning process. Furthermore the development
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System in notifications of natural disasters, crisis and risk assessment, in order to improve public safety and property. The web is available in both Icelandic and English.
Related workshops and conferences
Arctic Rediscovery Project, IASC 2013
Contacts
Jórunn Harðardóttir, Managing Director, Department of Processing and Research
Halldór Björnsson, Head of Climate Research
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Activity in the Bárðarbunga system since the end of the eruption
A meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board
27.6.2016
The Civil Protection Scientific Advisory Board met June 23rd, in order to review new data on the volcano Bárðarbunga. Below is the report from
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combine their effort in order to reduce the risk of accidents in travelling and tourism in Iceland. ICE-SAR's office leads the project with the help of many SAR team members as well as others with thorough experience in travelling in Iceland in different conditions.
Safetravel is supported by a number of sponsoring companies. The Icelandic Meteorological Office has supported the Safetravel
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Below are instructions on how to embed an iframe for wind, temperature and precipitation forecasts; the code for the iframe is listed. Web-masters should decide which area of the country will appear.
In order to embed this single frame (which gives both wind, temperature and precipitation forecasts), the following code is pasted into the html file where the frame should appear:
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Below are instructions on how to embed iframes for station forecasts, text forecasts or observations. The code for station forecasts is listed. Web-masters should decide which area of the country will appear. If preferred, the frame can show either text forecasts or observations, rather than station forecasts, when opened.
In order to embed this frame, the following code should
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resolution pdf for printing, 28 Mb; order free paper copies)
Background for the determination of dam height in the SATSIE dam design guidelines (IMO Int. Rep. 08003, 2008, authors T. Jóhannesson, Kristín M. Hákonardóttir, C. B. Harbitz and U. Domaas) (pdf 1.0 Mb)
Software for the computation of run-up of snow avalanches on catching and deflecting dams as well as on natural terrain
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This is an overview of web-sites related to the Eyjafjallajökull eruption in 2010 and it's precursor, the eruption in Fimmvörðuháls. The articles and news are in reversed time order.
Short articles
Increased glacial melt due to volcanic ash - 19 January 2011
Flood warning system and jökulhlaups - Eyjafjallajökull - 7
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and useful standardization of methods with the aim to speed up uptake of these applications and learning from these applications across the Nordic countries and in order to develop a Nordic framework for adaptive management
the development of academic and professional education in Nordic countries needed to support the development and use of these methodologies
Duration of the project
April
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