Mediterranean Sea - Contaminants aggregated datasets 1974/2018 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; temperature, salinity and additional sampling parameters are included when available. The spatial coverage is the Mediterranean Sea with 10917 CDI records divided per matrices: 3095 water profiles and 1385 water timeseries, 1511 sediment profiles and 4083 sediment timeseries, 42 biota profiles and 801 biota timeseries. In the water datasets, the vertical profiles temporal range is from 1974-09-12 to 2015-12-11 and the timeseries temporal range is from 2006-08-17 to 2018-04-26. In the sediment datasets, vertical profiles temporal range is from 1971-01-12 to 2016-04-07 and time series temporal range is from 1981-06-27 to 2018-12-14. For the biota datasets, vertical profiles temporal range is from 2008-05-05 to 2013-05-22 and time series temporal range is from 1979-03-29 to 2017-03-15. Data were harmonised and quality controlled by ‘Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Hellenic National Oceanographic Data Centre (HCMR/HNODC)’ from Greece.

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%3EMediterranean

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 TXT 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

Alternate title: Mediterranean_Sea_Contaminants_aggregated_datasets_1974/2018_v2021

Date (Creation): 2021-03-03

Edition: 1.0

Citation identifier: 87f74a81-45f6-40a0-b5d0-c59faa648be5

Credit: EMODnet Chemistry

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Hellenic National Oceanographic Data Centre (HCMR/HNODC)	data@hnodc.hcmr.gr	Author
Environment and Resources Authority	info@era.org.mt	Originator
Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia	stik@arso.gov.si	Originator
IFREMER / RBE / Biogeochimical end Ecotoxicological Resarch Unit (Brest)		Originator
Ifremer / VIGIES (Information Valuation Service for Integrated Management and Monitoring)		Originator
ISPRA-Institute for Environmental Protection and Research		Originator
Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries	office@izor.hr	Originator
National Institute of Biology - NIBMarine Biology Station	malacic@mbss.org	Originator
BRGM / Office of Geological and Mining Resources		Originator
Briese Schiffahrt	info@briese.de	Originator
CNR, Institute of Marine Science (ISMAR) - Ancona	p.penna@an.ismar.cnr.it	Originator
CNR, Institute of Marine Science (ISMAR) (Lesina)		Originator
CNR, Institute of Marine Science (ISMAR) - Bologna	responsabile@bo.ismar.cnr.it	Originator
CNR, Istituto di Scienze Marine (Sezione di Venezia - ex IBM)	direttore@ismar.cnr.it	Originator
Center for marine research - Rudjer Boskovic Institute	predstojnik.cim@irb.hr	Originator
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)	Enquiries@csiro.au	Originator
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel	info@geomar.de	Originator
German Research Foundation (DFG)	postmaster@dfg.de	Originator
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography (HCMR/IO)	iosecretariat@hcmr.gr	Originator
Institute of Marine Biology (IMBK)	danijela.j@ac.me	Originator
Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR)	nurit@ocean.org.il	Originator
National Research Council of Italy - Institute for Marine and Coastal Environment (IAMC) (Sezione Capo Granitola)	capogranitola@iamc.cnr.it	Originator
National Science Foundation (NSF)	info@nsf.gov	Originator
P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Atlantic Branch		Originator
UNIVERSITE DE PARIS VI / GEOSCIENCES AZUR - SITE DE VILLEFRANCHE / OOV	gsa-vlfr@geoazur.unice.fr	Originator
University of Athens, Department of Chemistry, Division of Inorganic and Environmental Chemistry, Environmental and Marine Chemistry Group (EMCG/UATH)	edasenak@cc.uoa.gr	Originator
Malta Environment and Planning Authority - Environment Protection Directorate	enquiries@mepa.org.mt	Originator
CNR, Institute for the Marine and Coastal Environment (IAMC) - Napoli		Originator
Department of Labour Inspection, Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance		Originator
Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University		Originator
National Centre for Scientific Research 'Demokritos', Institute of Nuclear Technology - Radiation Protection, Environmental Radioactivity Laboratory (ERL/INTRP/NCSRD)		Originator
Odessa Branch of SOI (State Oceanographic Institute)		Originator
State Oceanographic Institute (SOI)	adm@oceanography.ru, korshenko@mail.ru	Originator
State Oceanographic Institute, Sebastopol Branch (SB SOI)		Originator

Thèmes Sextant

/Chemical Environment/Contaminants

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Oceanographic geographical features

SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer

Mediterranean Sea

Theme

EMODnet Chemistry

Matrix Categories

EMODnet Chemistry chemical groups

Use limitation: CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Use constraints: unrestricted

Other constraints: Usage is subject to mandatory citation: "This resource was generated in the framework of EMODnet Chemistry, under the support of DG MARE Call for Tender EASME/2019/OP/0003-lot4."

Spatial representation type: Vector

Language: eng

Topic category

Oceans
Biota
Environment

Description: bounding box

Begin date: 1974-09-12

End date: 2018-12-14 Unknown

Vertical extent

Minimum value: -4414.0

Maximum value: 0.0

Reference system identifier: EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)

Geometric object type: Point

Distribution format

Name	Version
Text/ODV	5.3
Spreadsheet	11.0

Distributor

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Division of Oceanography		nodc@ogs.trieste.it	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
DOI	https://doi.org/10.6092/vyvd-0g91	Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
WWW:LINK	https://emodnet-chemistry.webodv.awi.de/	Explore and extract data
WWW:DOWNLOAD	https://nodc.ogs.it/repository/aggregated-datasets/contaminants/EMD_Contaminants_Med_2021_unrestricted.zip	EMD_Contaminants_Med_2021_unrestricted.zip

Hierarchy level: Series

Conformance result

Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Statement: The original datasets can be searched and downloaded from EMODnet Chemistry Chemistry CDI Data and Discovery Access Service: https://emodnet-chemistry.maris.nl/search