  This thesis is submitted in the partial fulfillment of the requirements for
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo. It represents
work that has been carried out between 2015 and 2018, under the supervision of
Pr. Atle Jensen, Dr. Graig Sutherland, and Dr. Kai H. Christensen, in
collaboration with Pr. Aleksey Marchenko and Pr. Brian Ward. The work presented
was carried at the University of Oslo and the University Center in Svalbard.
Financial support for the work was provided by the Norwegian Research Council
under the Petromaks 2 scheme, through the project WOICE (Experiments on Waves
in Oil and Ice), NFR Grant number 233901.
  The thesis consists of an introduction, and a selection of 7 publications.
The introduction presents the scientific context in which the work was
undertaken, the methodology used, the results obtained, as well as some
personal thoughts about unsuccessful directions encountered during the project
and possible future work. I certify that this dissertation is mine and that the
results presented are the result of the work of our research group, to which I
brought significant contribution.
