Acidification is a central concept in the environmental debate. The effect of acidification of the soil is a matter of a decreasing amount of cations and thereby a decreasing ability to resist a supply of hydrogen ions to the soil. Acidification has gradually increased in the O horizon in Västerbotten over a 30-year period from the 1970th to the 1990th. The aim of this study was from inventories of The Swedish National Forest Soil Survey and The Swedish National Forest Inventory explain and quantify the acidification that has occurred in the O horizon of two regions in the north of Sweden. Data from Smhi, The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, has also been used.

The aim with this work has been to examine the climate changes and what these has meant, and will mean during the present century, for plants that have not been hardy in Sweden. A lot of new species can probably be grown today in Sweden's most southern parts, due to an increase in the average annual temperature by 1?C. There is a need of information about these new species and their hardiness. The insufficient information about the subject has been the background to this work.

Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) is not considered to be a native species to Swedish forests. It´s origin is the pacific coast of Northern America, an area that is dominated by a coastal climate which makes it likely to believe that it would be well suited for growing in the south-west of Sweden. This study aims to investigate the gain in production that can be reached by growing sitka spruce instead of Norway spruce (Picea abies) in the county of Halland. A regression model based on data from forest experiments was produced to explain the gain in production. This model was based on elevation and annual precipitation. The model was then used to create a map layer in arcGIS that shows the gain of volume in comparison to Norway spruce in percent. An analysis was carried out to find what share of the forestland in Halland county that fell into four different classes of production gain.

SammanfattningSyftet var att undersöka om det finns årstidsvariationer i hemodialyspatienters viktuppgång mellan hemodialysbehandlingarna (IDWG) och systoliskt eller diastoliskt blodtryck före hemodialysbehandling samt undersöka samband mellan temperatur och viktuppgång. Registerdata beträffande hemodialyspatienters blodtryck och vikt före respektive efter hemodialysbehandling från två konsekutiva år har inhämtats.Dygnsmedeltemperatur från Smhi har även registrerats. Data har analyserats statistiskt med variansanalys (envägs ANOVA) och Spearmans rangkorrelation. Resultatet visade att statistisk signifikant variation över årstid för blodtryck och IDWG fanns. Endast ett svagt samband hittades till temperatur.

Denna uppsats handlar om vad som händer med fosforkoncentrationen i djupvatt- net vid två olika stationer i Östersjön när syrgaskoncentrationen förändras. Mitt syfte var dels att se om fosforhalten ökat och om detta tycks ha samband med minskade syrgashalter. För att få svar på dessa frågor använde jag mig av data från Smhi: s databas SHARK. De två stationer som jag analyserat data ifrån är BY 15, Gotlandsdjupet, och BY 31, Landsortsdjupet. Dessa båda stationer ligger i Egentliga Östersjön och har ett vattendjup på 225 m respektive 440 m.

This thesis investigates the overall risks of flooding over the Design Basis Flooding Level (DBFL) at the Swedish nuclear power plants (Oskarshamn, Ringhals and Forsmark), using statistical data and methods, but also considers historical events which might affect the overall risk of flooding at the specified sites.Considering the nuclear accident which happened in Fukushima in conjuction with the earthquake and tsunami which struck eastern Japan on 11 March 2011, operators and licensors of nuclear power plants all over the world conducted reviews and investigations on the overall risks posed to the plants from external events. One important such event is extreme water level.One part of the thesis includes an extreme value analysis (using Generalized Extreme Value distribution and Generalized Pareto distribution) of water level data from Smhi (Sweden's Meteorological and Hydrological Institute) measured at stations close to the Swedish nuclear power plants. The results of the statistical studies indicate that considering the return period used in the thesis (100 000 years), the water levels at the Swedish nuclear power plants are not expected to exceed DBFL.The other part of the thesis consists of a historical study of extreme weather-related events. The results of this study indicate that no historical events seem to have occured which would indicate a higher risk of flooding than the one suggested by the statistical study. .

Klimatförändringen är en aktuell fråga och ett förändrat klimat kommer att inverka på  utbredningen av vektor-burna sjukdomar såsom malaria. Malaria är en sjukdom som är extremt klimatkänslig och det dör miljontals människor i sjukdomen varje år. Syftet med studien är att se vilka samband som finns mellan malaria och klimatförändringen i Sverige. Finns någon risk för malariaspridning i Sverige år 2100 på grund av den pågående klimatförändringen. Studien baseras på fem intervjuer med forskare som är insatta i malaria och klimatförändringen.

Säbyviken är en mindre vik som utgör en del av Björnöfjärdens viksystem på Ingarö i Stockholms skärgård. Säbyviken har idag svåra övergödningsproblem med relaterade tillstånd såsom syrebrist, bottendöd och algblomningar. Nära hälften av Säbyvikens bottnar lider idag av syrebrist och dessa frigör idag stora mängder fosfat som tidigare varit bundet till sedimenten. För att kunna reducera övergödningen i Säbyviken är det nödvändigt att kartlägga de källor som orsakar övergödningen. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka näringsämnestillskottet från externa källor (tillflöden) samt interna källor (sedimenten) till den övergödda Säbyviken, med hjälp av egna flödesmätningar, uppskattade flöden från Smhi och koncentrationsmätningar av näringsämnen i tillflödena och i Säbyviken från BalticSea2020.

Modelling of pollutants is commonly used in research and at departments working with environmental issues. The need to use large amounts of data when modelling creates the opportunity for more generalised models with lower data demands. Aggregating functions into coarser elements is a sort of generalisation of actual features in nature.A development of a method and a modelling tool called ?KadmiumKalkylatorn? has been performed to model cadmium pollution in rivers in Skåne, Sweden. The water runoff has been multiplied with cadmium standard concentrations based on membership in landuse classes.

Today?s climate research shows that the climate may increase its temperature. One sector that is being threatened by global warming is the winter tourism of the Swedish municipality A?re. Tourism is an important economical source of income in A?re and is now threatened by a shortened winter season.

This thesis is a study of humidity at Knauf Danogips external plasterboard. The study is performed at the building project Kv. Maskinen in Jönköping in cooperation with NCC Construction AB and Knauf Danogips. The measuring was performed during five winter/spring months to see how the weather influenced the plasterboard.The measuring was performed at a small two-storied building and a larger fourstoried building. From the buildings` placement were a couple of measuring dots selected and to get a good result was the dots located in the four cardinal points.

This thesis assignment at C-level is focused on calculation models and prediction methodswhish can be used in the stage we call ?prospecting? of possible windmill locations. Thelocation is southeast of Halmstad at the Farm ?Stjernarpsgods?. The rapport has two mainareas directed towards this task.

Tjäderpopulationen Tetrao urogallus L. har under det senaste årtiondet minskat i täthet i stora delar av sitt utbredningsområde. Det är därför viktigt att undersöka faktorerna som kan påverka tjäderns fortplantning och överlevnad. Det råder delade meningar kring den främsta orsaken till nedgången. De flesta är eniga om att klimatet har en påverkan, men samspel mellan olika faktorer och lokala förhållanden är oftast avgörande för hur stor denna påverkan blir.

More frequent and intensified rainfalls are expected to occur due to climate change in the nearfuture. This together with a higher proportion of paved areas increases the pressure on today?sstorm water systems (Risinger, 2014; Boverket, 2013; Stahre, 2006). Traditional storm watersystems (i.e. underground pipe systems) have during last decades started to be questioned(Olshammar & Baresel, 2012).

Stage-discharge equations for lakes without disharge measurementsSimon AnderssonIn 2015 all lakes, rivers, coastal water and groundwater should be of good ecological statusaccording to the water framework directive from the European Union. In the process ofimproving the quality of Swedish water bodies, knowledge of where problems occur isneeded in order to utilize the resources optimally. The ability of lakes to store water is animportant factor since it controls the flow of water through the country. A stage-dischargeequation is a mathematical relation between discharge from a lake and its water level. Bybetter understanding of stage-discharge equations for lakes, their storage capacity can bedescribed better in hydrological models.This master thesis aims to evaluate methods for determining stage-discharge equations forlakes where a variable amount of field measurements is available.