Palsas and peat plateaus are permafrost mounds situated in mires with a core of ground ice. In northern Norway, palsas are located in the sporadic permafrost zone, and demarcate the southernmost limit of permafrost. Thus ...

It is well known that cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies are numerous in the Skagerrak. Nevertheless a systematic analysis of their statistics appears to be missing. This is the topic of the present thesis in which we ...