On the northern side a tephra wall rises 20 meters above the water. The ice walls at the southwestern corner of the crater are melting, i.e. at the site of the vent that was active 4 - 6 June. The rate of melting is assumed to be about one cubic meter per second.
Details on the volume of the lake, and possible flooding from it, in a status report issued collectively by the Icelandic Meteorological
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Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France
Received: 21 March 2011 – Published in The Cryosphere Discuss.: 6 April 2011
Revised: 5 October 2011 – Accepted: 20 October 2011 – Published: 2 November 2011
Abstract. The Little Ice Age maximum extent of glaciers in
Iceland was reached about 1890 AD and most glaciers in the
country have retreated during the 20th century. A model for
the surface mass balance
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1992 09 167 124 167 98
1995 07 1994 1759 599 368
1995 10 96 62 73 37
1997 07 921 728 330 184
2000 08 1240 1083 365 221
2002 09 689 582 267 160
2003 11 241 207 139 98
2006 04 1370 1340 300 270
2008 10 1350 1290 300 265
The origin of the 1957, 1960, 1964 and 1966 jökulhlaups is not certain but is most likely the eastern cauldron. The discharge
and volume for the 1995 jökulhlaup are a sum from
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