Baltic Sea - Contaminants aggregated datasets 1974/2021 v2022

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 Baltic Sea. Data were harmonised and validated by the ‘Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)’ in Sweden.

The dataset contains water, sediment and biota profiles. The temporal coverage is 1987–2021 for water measurements, 1974–2021 for sediment measurements and 1998-2021 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: Baltic_Sea_Contaminants_aggregated_datasets_1974/2021_v2022

Date (Creation): 2023-03-15

Citation identifier: dd1ffcfb-38be-4a9a-98d7-2c34a514438f

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
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
Coastal Committee of Kalmar County	info@rfkl.se	Originator
IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute (Stockholm)	info@ivl.se	Originator
Oresund Water Conservation Association	info@oresunds-vvf.se	Originator
Swedish Environmental Protection Agency	registrator@naturvardsverket.se	Originator
Chief Inspectorate for Environmental Protection		Originator
County Administration Board of Ostergotlands lan	ostergotland@lansstyrelsen.se	Originator
County Administration Board of Sodermanlands lan	sodermanland@lansstyrelsen.se	Originator
County Administration Board of Stockholm lan		Originator
County Administration Board of Västerbotten	vasterbotten@lansstyrelsen.se	Originator
Nykopings kommun	kommun@nykoping.se	Originator
Oxelosunds kommun	kommun@oxelosund.se	Originator
Sollentuna Kommun	sollentuna.kommun@sollentuna.se	Originator
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution		Originator
Krondshtadt Hydrometeorological Observatory, North-West HMS		Originator
North-Western Regional Administration of Hydrometeorology of Roshydromet	admin@meteo.nw.ru	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/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: 1974-04-25

End date: 2021-10-16 Unknown

Vertical extent

Minimum value: -2008

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
DOI	https://doi.org/10.13120/dd1ffcfb-38be-4a9a-98d7-2c34a514438f	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_2022_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

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