Article from Baltic Earth Newsletter 6 (April 2020):
Drift bottles in the southern Baltic Sea – an experiment-of-opportunity
by Hans von Storch, Ulrich Callies (Hemholtz Zentrum Geesthacht, Institut für Küstenforschung) and Anders Omstedt (University of Gothenburg; Marine Sciences: Oceanography)
A remarkable story about children preparing drift bottles, seamen dropping several of them simultaneously into the Baltic Sea, and others finding them at beaches far from each other. Thus, a formidable empirical data set, namely of the locations of findings spots, was the result of an “experiment-of-opportunity”. Using a transport model, we suggest the mechanism, how this wide spreading happened.
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