Can't find the thermometers

Picture taken of Lake Askja last week when the scients …

Picture taken of Lake Askja last week when the scients were evaluating the situation and put in the thermometers that are now missing. mbl.is/Árni Sæberg

The thermometers, which were thrown into Lake Askja during a mission by geoscientists with the Coast Guard's TF-SIF last week, are now not found.
“They are somewhere under the ice so we are thinking about putting in more meters,” says Ármann Höskuldsson, a volcanologist at the University of Iceland’s Institute of Earth Sciences, who went on an expedition across the lake yesterday aboard a helicopter.

Höskuldsson hopes that the next meters will have a GPS receiver, but the equipment will need to be built from scratch and it will take some time.
“Hopefully we’ll be able to put some meters down before the volcano erupts.”

Considers the weather was unlikely to have caused the melt

As mbl.is has previously discussed, the ice cover over Askjavatn is retreating. Scientists believe the melting is due to increased geothermal heat.
There has also been speculation that the climate may have affected the melting, i.e. a strong wind may trigger vertical mixing in the water. The heat in the water itself is sufficient to melt the ice.
However, Ármann believes it is more likely that more heat is coming up through cracks in the bottom of the lake.

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