3, values below 100 mASL were omitted
when determining the least-squares fits for vertical profiles. Due to the large negative bias over
the interior of the island, the vertical terrain-following gradients based on the original model
data are too small compared with the measured values.
Monthly mean model fields of 10-m wind speed, based on original and corrected SURFEX
data, are shown in Figure
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ESC statement on L’Aquila sentence
The European Seismological Commission (ESC) as a Commission of the
International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth’s Interior
(IASPEI) endorses and adheres to the IASPEI Press Release on the L'Aquila
sentence (http://www.iaspei.org/news_items/laquila_IASPEI_press_release_final.pdf
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lake in a volcanic caldera in the interior of the Vatnajökull ice cap (Björns-
son, 1988). Jökulhlaups from Grímsvötn have been known since at least the fourteenth
century (Þórarinsson, 1939, 1974). In the beginning of the twentieth century there were
about ten years between outbursts but the floods diminished with time and became
more frequent. After a catastrophic, rapidly rising flood caused
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