Arctic Ocean - Contaminants aggregated datasets 1974/2021 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 Norwegian Sea, Barents Sea, Greenland Sea and Icelandic Waters. Data were harmonised and validated by the 'Institute of Marine Research - Norwegian Marine Data Centre (NMD)' in Norway.

The dataset contains water and sediment profiles. The temporal coverage is 1974–2011 for water measurements and 1974–2021 for sediment 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: Arctic_region_Contaminants_aggregated_datasets_1974/2021_v2024

Date (Creation): 2024-07-09

Citation identifier: badbf65f-ca89-4b93-9d64-8f6cbbf780e1

Credit: EMODnet Chemistry

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research	folke.mehrtens@awi.de	Originator
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
Institute of Marine Research	post@imr.no	Originator
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde		Originator
Murmansk Hydrometeorological Administration of Roshydromet	leader@kolgimet.murman.ru	Originator
National Science Foundation (NSF)	info@nsf.gov	Originator
Odessa Branch of SOI (State Oceanographic Institute)		Originator
U.S. Geological Survey		Originator
University of Tromsø	postmottak@uit.no	Originator
Institute of Marine Research - Norwegian Marine Data Centre (NMD)	nmd@imr.no	Author

Thèmes Sextant

/Chemical Environment/Contaminants

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Oceanographic geographical features

SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer

Arctic Ocean

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/EMFF/2020/3.1.11/European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) - Lot 5 - Chemistry".

Spatial representation type: Vector

Language: eng

Topic category

Oceans
Environment

Description: bounding box

Begin date: 1974-03-25

End date: 2021-10-02 Unknown

Vertical extent

Minimum value: -5493.0

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_Arctic_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/badbf65f-ca89-4b93-9d64-8f6cbbf780e1	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