)
μ shear modulus [Pa]
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Acknowledgements
This thesis is submitted to the University of Iceland for the degree of Master of Science in
Geophysics. The research was supervised by Kristín S. Vogfjörð, at the Icelandic
Meteorological Office (IMO) and Páll Einarsson, professor at the University of Iceland.
Ragnar Slunga, former professor at the Uppsala University, also supervised
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of distribution of the form:
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−
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−1 ⁄
�
where z is the extreme value and μ, σ and ξ are the three parameters of the GEV model G(z),
defining location, scale and shape parameters, respectively. This three-parameter distribution
unites the three possible extreme value distributions, namely type I (Gumbel), type II (Fréchet),
and type III (Weibull
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