North Sea - Contaminants aggregated datasets 1959/2019 v2021

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, and covers the North Sea with 34978 CDI records divided per matrices: 1460 biota, 24740 water profiles, 6090 sediment profiles and 261 sediment time series. For water, the temporal range is from 1959-10-03 to 2019-12-30. For sediment, the temporal range is from 1970-07-11 to 2019-12-18 for profile data and from 1993-09-16 to 2015-06-15 for the time series. For biota, the temporal range is from 1979-02-26 to 2018-02-28. 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: https://vocab.seadatanet.org/p01-facet-search. 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. Detailed documentation is available at: https://doi.org/10.6092/8b52e8d7-dc92-4305-9337-7634a5cae3f4 Explore and extract data at: https://emodnet-chemistry.webodv.awi.de/contaminants%3ENorthSea The harmonised dataset can also be downloaded as ODV spreadsheet (TXT file), which is composed of metadata header followed by tab separated values. This worksheet can be imported to ODV Software for visualisation (More information can be found at: https://www.seadatanet.org/Software/ODV ). The same dataset is offered also as XLSX file in a long/vertical format, in which each P01 measurement is a record line. Additionally, there are a series of columns that split P01 terms in subcomponents (measure, substance, CAS number, matrix...).This transposed format is more adapted to worksheet applications users (e.g. LibreOffice Calc). The original datasets can be searched and downloaded from EMODnet Chemistry Chemistry CDI Data and Discovery Access Service: https://emodnet-chemistry.maris.nl/search

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Provenance
Publisher Blue-Cloud Data Discovery & Access service; EMODnet Chemistry
Contributor EMODnet Chemistry; Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Marine Ecology Roskilde; Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute; Elbe River Water Authority; Environment Agency Head Office; Environment Agency Solent and South Downs Area Office; Environment Agency South East Regional Office; Environment Agency South West Regional Office; Environment Agency Wales; Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG); Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency; Federal Research Centre for Fisheries (Cuxhaven); Federal Research Centre for Fisheries (Hamburg); Finnish Institute of Marine Research (FIMR); GKSS Research Center; Geological Survey of Sweden, SGU; German Hydrographic Institute; IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute - Stockholm; Ifremer / VIGIES (Information Valuation Service for Integrated Management and Monitoring); Lower Saxony Water Management, Coastal Defense and Nature Conservation Agency; Marine Institute; Plymouth Marine Laboratory; Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory; Rijkswaterstaat Water, Traffic and Environment; Senckenberg by the Sea, Wilhelmshaven; State Agency for Nature and Environment of Schleswig Holstein (LANU); State Office for Water Economy and Shore, Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; State Office of Ecology of Lower Saxony; University of Plymouth, Institute of Marine Studies; Weser River Management Bureau; Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research; Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Roshydromet (Saint-Petersburg); Atlantic Scientific Research Institute for Marine Fishery and Oceanography; Bohuskusten Coalition of Water Conservation; Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory; Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs; Federaal Agentschap voor Nucleaire Controle; Federal Institute of Hydrology; IHE, Management Unit of North Sea and Scheldt Estuary Mathematical Models, Ostend; Lithuanian Hydrometeorological Service under the Ministry of Environment; Marine Scotland Science; Murmansk Hydrometeorological Administration of Roshydromet; National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research; National Science Foundation; Natural Environment Research Council; Odessa Branch of SOI (State Oceanographic Institute); P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS; Polar Scientific Research Institute of Fishery and Oceanography; RF Forschungsschiffahrt GmbH; Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Management Unit of North Sea and Scheldt Estuary Mathematical Models; Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Management Unit of North Sea and Scheldt Estuary Mathematical Models, Ostend; Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Operational Directorate Natural Environment; Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Operational Directorate Natural Environment, Ostend; Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Angus Smith Building; Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Edinburgh Office; State Oceanographic Institute; State Office for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas of Schleswig Holstein; Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute; Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Analytical and Environmental Chemistry; Waterways and Shipping Authority Wilhelmshaven; Waterways and Shipping Office Cuxhaven; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Publication Year 2025
OpenAccess true
Contact blue-cloud-support(at)maris.nl
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Discipline Marine Science
Spatial Coverage (-42.900W, 48.000S, 20.300E, 62.800N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 1959-10-03T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-12-30T00:00:00Z