at the peak of the so called Little Ice Age during the 1890s and also the outlines as they were around the year 2000.
The map distinguishes surging glaciers from other outlet glaciers, and identifies all known sub-glacial volcanic calderas. Featured are the names of all named glaciers and the map includes a brochure and a list of glacier names.
The Map of Glaciers can be used for both tourism
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The western cauldron in Vatnajökull ice cap on 19 August 2000, shortly after jökulhlaup in river Skaftá which originated in the cauldron. Photo: Oddur Sigurðsson.
The SVALI project examines the complex effects of climate change on the Arctic environment, especially as glaciers, ice and snow. The projects main research questions are as follows:
How fast is land ice volume in the Arctic
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Plate.
The source fault of one of the earthquakes of 2000 will be visited before we cross the plate boundary back to the North America Plate.
The guide will be Professor Páll Einarsson of the University of Iceland.
The trip, departing from Reykjavík on Saturday 31 October, will last about nine hours. The estimated cost of the trip is 5000 ISK (30 EUR). This fee covers the hire of a bus
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thickness is 10-12 meters and estimated volume of eruptive material 22-24 million cubic meters (only one fifth of Hekla 2000).
Accordingly, the average flow rate has been approximately 15 cubic meters per second since the eruption began. The eruptive cone stands 82 m above previous ground level and the highest peak is 1067 m a.s.l.
On their web-site, explanatory photographs can be found (pdf 1.1 Mb
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was below normal in May and June, slightly
above normal in July and August, and again below normal in September
and October. It was exceptionally warm in Reykjavík in November and
December. In Akureyri, the temperature was above normal in all months
except August. Precipitation
The
year was relatively wet and the
precipitation was above the 1971 to 2000 mean at most stations.
The
number of days
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over five-day period in Iceland. Several
landslides hit the town of Seyðisfjörður during these days, the
largest on 18 December. It ranks as the most damaging landslide to
have affected an urban area in Iceland.Table
2: Precipitation overview
2020 from several stations. (1) Total precipitation (mm). (2)
Percentage of the 1971 to 2000 average precipitation. (3) Percentage
of the 10-year
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close to 2000 m a.s.l. Consequently, catchments
having a hydrological regime influenced by snow and glacial melt show signs of sensitivity
to temperature variations.
The mean annual catchment-averaged temperature difference between the 25% warmest and
25% coldest years ranges from 1.5°C to 1.8°C depending on catchment. It is found that a
mean annual temperature difference
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and the minimum was -17.9 on 29
December.
PrecipitationThe
precipitation was above the 1971 to 2000 mean at most stations. The
excess was largest in the East. Heavy
rainfall in the East and Southeast at
the
end of September resulted in extensive
flooding
from
major rivers in the area.
The
annual total in Reykjavík was 900.4 mm, 10 percent above the 1971 to
2000 mean. In Akureyri
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The temporal resolution of the selected data varies from daily to annual.
Simulations for the 20th century are available, extending to 2005 when the RCP (Representative
Concentration Pathways) simulations start. Furthermore, reanalysis products are available
between 1981 and 2000. The reference period for this study is therefore chosen to be from
1981 to 2000. We use CORDEX simulations from
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