Subglacial flood path development during a rapidly rising jökulhlaup from the western Skaftá cauldron, Vatnajökull, Iceland

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: BERGUR EINARSSON, TÓMAS JÓHANNESSON, THORSTEINN THORSTEINSSON, ERIC GAIDOS, THOMAS ZWINGER
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2017
• Subjects: glacier hydrology; jökulhlaups (GLOFs); subglacial lakes; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Meteorology. Climatology; QC851-999; Vatnajökull; Skaftá; glacier; Iceland; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2017.33; https://doaj.org/article/a9f555123fd64d2e81bd744ae91796bf

Discharge and water temperature measurements in the Skaftá river and measurements of the lowering of the ice over the subglacial lake at the western Skaftá cauldron, Vatnajökull, Iceland, were made during a rapidly rising glacial outburst flood (jökulhlaup) in September 2006. Outflow from the lake,...