Porewater ion concentrations and total alkalinity in the Kiel Bight, SW Baltic Sea from 2016 to 2025

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This dataset presents porewater and bottom water data from 63 stations in the Kiel Bight taken during the research cruises BE03/2016 (08.03.2016), BE10/2016 (19.10.2016), BE10/2018 (23.10.2018), BE03/2019 (15.03.2019), L23-13 (13.09.2023 - 15.09.2023), Sagitta24-1 (16.09.2024), Sagitta24-2 (23.09.2024), L25-2b (09.02.2025 - 17.02.2025) and EMB374 (04.09.2025 - 13.09.2025). Short sediment cores (<50cm) were recovered using a Multicorer (MUC), Minicorer (MIC) or Rumohrlot (RL). At 22 of those stations, bottom water and porewater samples were analysed for total alkalinity (TA), ammonium (NH4+), sulfate (SO42-), hydrogen sulfide (H2S), dissolved iron (Fe2+) and dissolved manganese (Mn2+). At 41 stations, exclusively a bottom water sample was taken for H2S measurements. Bottom waters were sampled from the supernatant water in the sediment cores. Porewater samples were extracted from the sediments using rhizones. TA was determined by titration (METROHM 876 Dosimat Plus), NH4+ and H2S using a photometer (Hitachi U-2900), SO42- by Ion Chromatography (METROHM 761 Compact) and Fe2+ and Mn2+ by Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy (Varian 720-ES). The collected data will be used to determine the spatial and temporal variability of hydrogen sulfide in bottom waters of the Kiel Bight, (ii) identify the controlling factors governing the accumulation of hydrogen sulfide at the seafloor, and (iii) establish an early warning system of sulfidic seafloor conditions for regional stakeholders in the Baltic Sea.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.988017
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Provenance
Creator Spiegel, Timo ORCID logo; Scholz, Florian ORCID logo; Schmidt, Mark ORCID logo; Perner, Mirjam ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002347 Crossref Funder ID 03F0953C https://foerderportal.bund.de/foekat/jsp/SucheAction.do?actionMode=view&fkz=03F0953C DAM mareXtreme - PrimePrevention, GEOMAR
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 2228 data points
Discipline Economics; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage (9.938W, 54.433S, 10.307E, 54.700N); Kieler Bucht
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2025-09-12T14:19:32Z