Baltic 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 Baltic Sea with 3186 CDI records divided per matrices: 808 water profiles, 1556 sediment profiles and 822 biota profiles. For water, vertical profiles temporal range is from 1999-05-15 to 2018-08-27. For sediment, vertical profiles temporal range is from 1974-04-25 to 2018-08-27. For biota, vertical profiles temporal range is from 1998-09-14 to 2018-10-01. Data were aggregated and quality controlled by ‘Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)’ from Sweden.

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%3EBaltic

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: Baltic_Sea_Contaminants_aggregated_datasets_1974/2018_v2021

Date (Creation): 2021-03-15

Edition: 1.0

Citation identifier: 500f898e-5f13-4510-9f47-f640dee9ff71

Credit: EMODnet Chemistry

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Marine Ecology Roskilde		Originator
Estonian Environmental board		Originator
Estonian Marine Institute	meri@sea.ee	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 Environment Institute		Originator
Finnish Institute of Marine Research (FIMR)		Originator
Geological Survey of Estonia	egk@egk.ee	Originator
Geological Survey of Sweden, SGU	sgu@sgu.se	Originator
German Hydrographic Institute	friedrich.nast	Originator
Institute of Geology and Geography of Nature Research Centre	info@geo.lt	Originator
Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology	anda.ikauniece@lhei.lv	Originator
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde	postmaster@io-warnemuende.de	Originator
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde		Originator
State Agency for Environment, Nature and Geology, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	poststelle@lung.mv-regierung.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
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Department of Physical Oceanography	information@whoi.edu	Originator
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)	shark@smhi.se	Author
Institute of Meteorology and Water Management National Research Institute, Maritime Branch in Gdynia (IMWM MB)		Originator
State Office for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas of Schleswig Holstein	poststelle@llur.landsh.de	Originator

Thèmes Sextant

/Chemical Environment/Contaminants

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Oceanographic geographical features

SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer

Baltic Sea

Theme

EMODnet Chemistry

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: 1974-04-25

End date: 2018-10-01 Unknown

Vertical extent

Minimum value: -403.0

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/10.6092/28y3-th08	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_Baltic_2021_unrestricted.zip	EMD_Contaminants_Baltic_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