North East Atlantic Ocean - Contaminants aggregated datasets 1966/2019 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; temperature, salinity and additional sampling parameters are included when available. The spatial coverage is the North East Atlantic Ocean with 2438 CDI records divided per matrices: 126 in biota (as time series), 1704 in water (as vertical profiles) and 608 in sediment (497 Vertical profiles and 111 Time series). For water data, vertical profiles temporal range is from 1974-11-22 to 2013-08-15. For sediment data, vertical profiles temporal range is from 1966-01-01 to 2007-06-30 and time series temporal range is from 1999-06-05 to 2014-10-21. For biota data, time series temporal range is from 1979-02-28 to 2019-03-07. Data were aggregated and quality controlled by ‘IFREMER / IDM / SISMER - Scientific Information Systems for the SEA’ from France.

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%3EAtlantic

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: North_East_Atlantic_Ocean_Contaminants_aggregated_datasets_1966/2019_v2021

Date (Creation): 2021-03-15

Edition: 1.0

Citation identifier: 16c2b558-2c9a-4bd5-82fc-f244227e3c50

Credit: EMODnet Chemistry

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
Briese Schiffahrt	info@briese.de	Originator
Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency	posteingang@bsh.de	Originator
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel	info@geomar.de	Originator
Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences	gin@ginras.ru	Originator
German Research Foundation (DFG)	postmaster@dfg.de	Originator
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR)	president_secretary@hcmr.gr	Originator
IHPT, Hydrographic Institute	mail@hidrografico.pt	Originator
Ifremer / VIGIES (Information Valuation Service for Integrated Management and Monitoring)		Originator
National Science Foundation (NSF)	info@nsf.gov	Originator
Natural Environment Research Council		Originator
Odessa Branch of SOI (State Oceanographic Institute)		Originator
P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS	office@ocean.ru	Originator
RF Forschungsschiffahrt GmbH	info@rf-bremen.de	Originator
United States Coast Guard		Originator
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution		Originator
IFREMER / IDM / SISMER - Scientific Information Systems for the SEA	sismer@ifremer.fr	Author
IFREMER / RBE / Biogeochimical end Ecotoxicological Resarch Unit (Brest)		Originator
Laboratory of Physical Oceanography/ UNIVERSITE DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE (UBO)		Originator
UNIVERSITE DE RENNES I / LABORATOIRE DE GEOSCIENCES - UMR CNRS 6118		Originator
University of Bordeaux I / IGBA Talence		Originator
State Oceanographic Institute (SOI)	adm@oceanography.ru, korshenko@mail.ru	Originator

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Oceanographic geographical features

SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer

Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)

Theme

EMODnet Chemistry

Matrix Categories

EMODnet Chemistry chemical groups

Thèmes Sextant

/Chemical Environment/Contaminants

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: 1966-01-01

End date: 2019-03-07 Unknown

Vertical extent

Minimum value: -5360.0

Maximum value: 0.0

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

Geometric object type: Point

Distribution format

Name	Version
ODV/text	5.3

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/byac-h177	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_Atlantic_2021_unrestricted.zip	EMD_Contaminants_Atlantic_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