PAH concentrations in the Fram Strait, the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and the lower Great Lakes

• Main Authors: Lihong Zhang, Yuxin Ma, Simon Vojta, Maya Morales-McDevitt, Mario Hoppmann, Thomas Soltwedel, Jane Kirk, Amila De Silva, Derek Muir, Rainer Lohmann
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: PAHs; Passive sampler; Fram Strait; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Great Lakes; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Morales; Arctic Archipelago
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7352264; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7352264

The PEs were deployed at different water depths of deep moorings deployed in the Fram Strait during 2014-2015 (9 samples) and 2018-2019 (22 samples), as well as in surface seawater of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (6 samples), and in the air (6 samples) and surface water (3 samples) of the lower Great Lakes during 2018-2019. For atmospheric sampling, PEs have deployed at ~1-2 m height and fixed inside two inverted bowls to prevent rainfall and direct solar radiation. For water sampling, PEs were strung on stainless steel wires and attached to stainless steel cages. The surface-water cages were fixed to subsurface floats at ~4-5 m depth, while the deep-water cages were fastened to deep moorings at different depths for ~1 year. PAH concentration data were collected. Supporting information for "Zhang, L., Ma, Y., Vojta, S., Morales-McDevitt, M., Hoppmann, M., Soltwedel, T., et al. (2023). Presence, Sources and Transport of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Arctic Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL101496". https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101496