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

Alternate title: EMODNET_CHEMISTRY_North_Sea_Contaminants_aggregated_datasets_1959/2019_v2021

Date (Creation): 2021-04-09

Edition: 1.0

Citation identifier: 0d891cfa-d23c-4253-a368-ef07f22f9af8

Credit: EMODnet Chemistry

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Marine Ecology Roskilde		Originator
Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute	info@afbini.gov.uk	Originator
Elbe River Water Authority	thomas.gaumert@arge-elbe.de	Originator
Environment Agency Head Office	enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk	Originator
Environment Agency Solent and South Downs Area Office	enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk	Originator
Environment Agency South East Regional Office	enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk	Originator
Environment Agency South West Regional Office	enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk	Originator
Environment Agency Wales		Originator
Federal Institute of Hydrology (BFG)	posteingang@bafg.de	Originator
Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency	posteingang@bsh.de	Originator
Federal Research Centre for Fisheries (Cuxhaven)	t.lang@t-online.de	Originator
Federal Research Centre for Fisheries (Hamburg)	info@ish.bfa-fisch.de	Originator
Finnish Institute of Marine Research (FIMR)		Originator
GKSS Research Center	arndt@gkss.de	Originator
Geological Survey of Sweden, SGU	sgu@sgu.se	Originator
German Hydrographic Institute	friedrich.nast	Originator
IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute - Stockholm	info@ivl.se	Originator
Ifremer / VIGIES (Information Valuation Service for Integrated Management and Monitoring)		Originator
Lower Saxony Water Management, Coastal Defense and Nature Conservation Agency	Dieter.Steffen@nlwkn-hi.niedersachsen.de	Originator
Marine Institute	datarequests@marine.ie	Originator
Plymouth Marine Laboratory	forinfo@pml.ac.uk	Originator
Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory	inapplicable	Originator
Rijkswaterstaat Water, Traffic and Environment		Originator
Senckenberg by the Sea, Wilhelmshaven	mefo@senckenberg.de, dzmb@senckenberg.de	Originator
State Agency for Nature and Environment of Schleswig Holstein (LANU)	infonet@lanu.landsh.de	Originator
State Office for Water Economy and Shore, Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel		Originator
State Office of Ecology of Lower Saxony	Poststelle@nlwkn-hi.niedersachsen.de	Originator
University of Plymouth, Institute of Marine Studies	inapplicable	Originator
Weser River Management Bureau	info@fgg-weser.de	Originator
Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Marine Ecology Roskilde	bios@au.dk	Author
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research	folke.mehrtens@awi.de	Originator
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Roshydromet (Saint-Petersburg)	aaricoop@aari.nw.ru	Originator
Atlantic Scientific Research Institute for Marine Fishery and Oceanography	atlant@baltnet.ru	Originator
Bohuskusten Coalition of Water Conservation	info@bvvf.se	Originator
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory	datamanager@cefas.co.uk	Originator
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs	daerahelpline@daera-ni.gov.uk.	Originator
Federaal Agentschap voor Nucleaire Controle		Originator
Federal Institute of Hydrology	posteingang@bafg.de	Originator
IHE, Management Unit of North Sea and Scheldt Estuary Mathematical Models, Ostend	inapplicable	Originator
Lithuanian Hydrometeorological Service under the Ministry of Environment	lhmt@meteo.lt,	Originator
Marine Scotland Science	inapplicable	Originator
Murmansk Hydrometeorological Administration of Roshydromet	leader@kolgimet.murman.ru	Originator
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research	enquiries@niwa.co.nz	Originator
National Science Foundation	info@nsf.gov	Originator
Natural Environment Research Council	mary.goodchild@nerc.ukri.org	Originator
Odessa Branch of SOI (State Oceanographic Institute)		Originator
P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS	office@ocean.ru	Originator
Polar Scientific Research Institute of Fishery and Oceanography	persey@pinro.ru	Originator
RF Forschungsschiffahrt GmbH	info@rf-bremen.de	Originator
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Management Unit of North Sea and Scheldt Estuary Mathematical Models	info@mumm.ac.be	Originator
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Management Unit of North Sea and Scheldt Estuary Mathematical Models, Ostend	bmmost@mumm.ac.be	Originator
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Operational Directorate Natural Environment		Originator
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Operational Directorate Natural Environment, Ostend	odnature@naturalsciences.be	Originator
Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Angus Smith Building	inapplicable	Originator
Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Edinburgh Office	inapplicable	Originator
State Oceanographic Institute	adm@oceanography.ru, korshenko@mail.ru	Originator
State Office for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas of Schleswig Holstein	poststelle@llur.landsh.de	Originator
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute	shark@smhi.se	Originator
University of Plymouth, Institute of Marine Studies	inapplicable	Originator
Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Analytical and Environmental Chemistry	wbaeyens@vub.ac.be	Originator
Waterways and Shipping Authority Wilhelmshaven	wsa-wilhelmshaven@wsv.bund.de	Originator
Waterways and Shipping Office Cuxhaven	poststelle-cux@cux.wsd-nord.de	Originator
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution		Originator

Thèmes Sextant

/Chemical Environment/Contaminants

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Oceanographic geographical features

SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer

North 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
Environment
Biota

Description: Bounding box

Begin date: 1959-10-03

End date: 2019-12-30

Vertical extent

Minimum value: -4857

Maximum value: 0.0

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

Geometric object type: Point

Distribution format

Name	Version
Zipped file (ODV spreadsheet and transposed spreadsheet)	1.0

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/10.6092/42t8-zy38	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_NorthSea_2021_unrestricted.zip	EMD_Contaminants_NorthSea_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