Is it even possible to devise a test that can accurately model the oceans ability to disperse chemicals disolved in the water? Or matter that doesn’t sink to the bottom.
There is such a thing as a “dye diffusion study” or “dye tracer study” (just try those terms in a search engine - you’ll get lots of results) in oceanography, which is basically what it sounds like - you put some type of dye or dye cocktail into the ocean (or a freshwater source that runs into the ocean) at a location of interest, then see where the dye goes and how long it lasts.
Does that help? From your question it’s not clear to me whether you are curious about something empirical or whether you want a model independent of some empirical test.
I was more interested in for instance I put dye in the amazon and see how long it takes to show up in the mediteranean for instance. Total dispersion over a long period of time. The ocean may be too big to use a parts per million gage.
There’s a big experiment being done right now - it’s called “the Fukushima meltdown.”
Check back in a few decades to see the results…
This is what I had in mind, if nothing else good comes out of this it should provide more data from the radiation than anything else we could have attempted.
You’re assuming that there’s enough radioactivity from the incident to be detected a world away.
Probably not at current levels, I have to wonder if the ocean is big enough to handle the waste water they are building such a massive reserve of.
A couple of decades ago, a shipping container of rubber ducks was lost at sea. Yes, those little bathtub toy type rubber ducks. As in about 30,000 of them.
This accident has given scientists a wonderful opportunity to track ocean currents and dispersal patterns.