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Title: Assessment of surface microplastics abundance in the Mediterranean Sea collected aboard R/V Tara from 2014-06-03 to 2014-11-08 (NCEI Accession 0270530)
Abstract: This study assessed the load of surface microplastics (i.e. plastics less than 5mm, reported in unit of pieces/m^3) abundance at 124 sites in the Mediterranean Sea from 2014-06-03 to 2014-11-08. Microplastics data were collected aboard R/V Tara using manta net, towed at the top 10 cm of the sea surface with an average speed of 2.5-3 knots for 60 minutes. This dataset contains the results from all surface net tows, in a spreadsheet format.
Date received: 20221020
Start date: 20140603
End date: 20141108
Seanames: Adriatic Sea, Aegean Sea, Alboran Sea, Balearic (Iberian) Sea, Ionian Sea, Ligurian Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin, Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin, Tyrrhenian Sea
West boundary: -6.3806
East boundary: 34.7345
North boundary: 43.8759
South boundary: 33.683
Observation types: in situ
Instrument types: Manta net
Datatypes: microplastic concentration
Submitter: Pedrotti, Dr Maria Luiza
Submitting institution: Sorbonne University
Collecting institutions: Sorbonne University
Contributing projects:
Platforms: Tara (35XI)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information:
Availability date:
Metadata version: 3
Keydate: 2022-11-14 16:31:52+00
Editdate: 2024-09-10 14:15:11+00