of cloud-to-ground lightning
in Iceland, April 2006 ‒ March 2007), Report 07007, Reykjavík: Veðurstofa Íslands.
Arason, P., Bennett, A. J. & Burgin, L. E. (2011). Charge mechanism of volcanic lightning
revealed during the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, Journal of Geophysical Research,
116: B00C03, doi:10.1029/2011JB008651.
Arason, Þ., Bjornsson, H. & and Petersen, G. N. (2013a). Early
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stations used to cal ulate correlation with bw at Storbreen. The station information is taken from www.eklima.no.Mean annual (A) and winter (W) precipitation (P) are calculated for the period 1949–2006. Winter is here defined as the calendar monthsJan–Apr and Oct–Dec. Correlation (r) and coefficient of determination (r2) between winter precipitation sum Pw) for the period 15 Sep-tember to 14 May
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Table 8. Frequency of warm summer days in JJA. All numbers in the table are based
on CORDEX results not observations, including the period 1981-2000.
Location P(Tmax>15°C) P(Tmax>20°C) P(Tmax>25°C)
1981–2000
Akureyri 9% 0.5% -
Egilsstaðir 10% 1% -
Kirkjubæjarklaustur 20% 0.5% -
Reykjavík 12% - -
Selfoss 26% 1% -
2081–2100 RCP4.5
Akureyri 22% 4% -
Egilsstaðir 27% 8% 0.5
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) Survey indicated that more than half of the respondents in 13 out of 24
countries worldwide felt that climate change was a serious problem (Brechin, 2003,
p. 109). Of these 13 nations, 8 were European (and 5 formed part of the EU15); the
USA did not figure in these 13. More than 65% of the surveyed populations in the
same 23 out of 24 nations indicated they felt that global warming was a serious
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– Post 2002
Overall Effect of Wind Speed on
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100
120
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20
40
60
80
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129
130-
139
140-
149
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Built Categories
Average Home Size By Year Built Categories
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2500
2550
2150
2200
2250
2300
2350
2400
Pre 1980 80-96 97-2002 Post 2002
Avg. Sq. Feet
Damaged Homes
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