North Sea - Contaminants aggregated datasets 1970/2017 v2018 ...

• Main Author: Aarhus University, Department Of Bioscience
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: EMODnet Chemistry 2018
• Subjects: Alkalinity, acidity and pH of the water column; Ammonium and ammonia concentration parameters in water bodies; Biota lipid concentrations; Carbon concentrations in sediment; Carbon concentrations in suspended particulate material; Carotenoid and flavenoid pigment concentrations in water bodies; Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies; Concentration of carbohydrates, phenols, alkanols alcohols, ethers, aldehydes and ketones in sediment; Concentration of organic matter in sediments; Concentration of other hydrocarbons in the water column; Concentration of other organic contaminants in sediment samples; Concentration of other organic contaminants in suspended particulate material; Concentration of other organic contaminants in the water column; Concentration of polychlorobiphenyls PCBs in biota; Concentration of polychlorobiphenyls PCBs in sediment samples; Concentration of polychlorobiphenyls PCBs in suspended particulate material; Concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons PAHs in biota; Concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons PAHs in sediment samples; Concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons PAHs in suspended particulate material; Concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons PAHs in the water column; Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column; Date and time; Dissolved metal concentrations in the water column; Dissolved organic carbon concentration in the water column; Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column; Dissolved total and organic nitrogen concentrations in the water column; Dissolved total or organic phosphorus concentration in the water column; Dissolved trace metalloid and inorganic selenium concentrations in water bodies; Geological sample radioactivity; Geotechnics; Horizontal spatial co-ordinates; Inorganic chemical composition of sediment or rocks; Lithology; Metal concentrations in biota; Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column; Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column; Organometallic and organometalloid species concentration parameters in sediments; Organometallic species concentration parameters in biota; Other halocarbon concentrations in water bodies; Particulate total and organic carbon concentrations in the water column; Particulate total and organic nitrogen concentrations in the water column; Particulate total and organic phosphorus concentrations in the water column; Pesticide concentrations in biota; Pesticide concentrations in sediment; Pesticide concentrations in water bodies; Phaeopigment concentrations in the water column; Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column; Radioactivity in water bodies; Salinity of the water column; SeaDataNet biological format biotic parameters; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6092/36hb-6g72; https://sextant.ifremer.fr/documentation/emodnet_chemistry/api/catalogue.html#/metadata/b4947397-e2b8-4875-973e-3309a36ed644

EMODnet Chemistry aims to provide access to marine chemistry data sets and derived data products concerning eutrophication, ocean acidification and contaminants. The chemicals chosen reflect importance to the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). This regional aggregated dataset contains all unrestricted EMODnet Chemistry data on contaminants (59 parameters), and covers the North Sea with 34978 CDI records divided per matrices: 3909 biota time series, 28071 water profiles, 2998 sediment profiles. Vertical profiles temporal range is from 1970-02-17 to 2017-10-26. Time series temporal range is from 1979-02-26 to 2017-02-28. Data were aggregated and quality controlled by ‘Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Marine Ecology Roskilde from Denmark. ... : Regional datasets concerning contaminants are automatically harvested. Parameter names in these datasets are based on P01, BODC Parameter Usage Vocabulary, which is available at: http://seadatanet.maris2.nl/bandit/browse_step.php . Each measurement value has a quality flag indicator. The resulting data collections for each Sea Basin are harmonised, and the collections are quality controlled by EMODnet Chemistry Regional Leaders using ODV Software and following a common methodology for all Sea Regions."" Harmonisation means that: (1) unit conversion is carried out to express contaminant concentrations with a limited set of measurement units (according to EU directives 2013/39/UE; Comm. Dec. EU 2017/848) and (2) merging of variables described by different “local names” ,but corresponding exactly to the same concepts in BODC P01 vocabulary.""The harmonised dataset can be downloaded as ODV spreadsheet (TXT file), which is composed of metadata header followed by tab separated values. This worksheet can be ...