North East Atlantic Ocean - Contaminants aggregated datasets 1966/2022 v2024

EMODnet Chemistry aims to provide access to marine chemistry datasets and derived data products concerning eutrophication, acidity and contaminants. The importance of the selected substances and other parameters relates to the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). This aggregated dataset contains all unrestricted EMODnet Chemistry data on potential hazardous substances, despite the fact that some data might not be related to pollution (e.g. collected by deep corer). Temperature, salinity and additional parameters are included when available. It covers the Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W). Data were harmonised and validated by the '‘IFREMER / IDM / SISMER - Scientific Information Systems for the SEA’ in France.

The dataset contains water (profiles), sediment (profiles and timeseries) and biota (timeseries). The temporal coverage is 1974–2018 for water measurements, 1966–2020 for sediment measurements and 1979–2022 for biota measurements.

Regional datasets concerning contaminants are automatically harvested and the resulting collections are harmonised and validated using ODV Software and following a common methodology for all sea regions ( https://doi.org/10.6092/8b52e8d7-dc92-4305-9337-7634a5cae3f4 ). Parameter names are based on P01 vocabulary, which relates to BODC Parameter Usage Vocabulary and is available at: https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/search_nvs/P01/ .

The harmonised dataset can be downloaded as as an ODV spreadsheet, which is composed of a metadata header followed by tab separated values. This spreadsheet can be imported into ODV Software for visualisation (more information can be found at: https://www.seadatanet.org/Software/ODV ). In addition, the same dataset is offered also as a 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 into subcomponents (substance, CAS number, matrix...).This transposed format is more adapted to worksheet applications (e.g. LibreOffice Calc).

Alternate title: North_East_Atlantic_Ocean_Contaminants_aggregated_datasets_1966/2022_v2024

Date (Creation): 2024-07-09

Citation identifier: 353c90c6-dbfe-49e7-a572-5691acde4014

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
National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Division of Oceanography	nodc@ogs.it	Custodian
State Oceanographic Institute	adm@oceanography.ru, korshenko@mail.ru	Originator
Laboratory of Physical Oceanography, Universite de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO)		Originator
University of Bordeaux I, IGBA Talence		Originator
University Rennes I, Rennes GEOSCIENCES		Originator
IFREMER, Biogeochemical and Ecotoxicological Resarch Unit (Brest)		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/EMFF/2020/3.1.11/European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) - Lot 5 - Chemistry".

Spatial representation type: Vector

Language: eng

Topic category

Oceans
Biota
Environment

Description: bounding box

Begin date: 1966-01-01

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
SeaDataNet ODV/Text	0.4

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
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_2024_unrestricted.zip	Direct download
WWW:LINK	https://doi.org/10.6092/8b52e8d7-dc92-4305-9337-7634a5cae3f4	Quality Control steps for EMODnet Chemistry Contaminant aggregated datasets
DOI	https://doi.org/10.13120/353c90c6-dbfe-49e7-a572-5691acde4014	Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

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://cdi-chemistry.seadatanet.org/search