Distribution of pharmaceutical compounds in coastal waters of the North Sea in March 2023

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We investigated the occurrence, spatial, and vertical distributions of 63 pharmaceutical compounds and six artificial sweeteners from the sea surface microlayer (SML) to five different depths (0 cm, 20 cm, 50 cm, 100 cm, and 150 cm) of the corresponding underlying waters in four stations of the North Sea. One station is a coastal area (Jade Bay), one station is an estuary (Bremerhaven), and the other two stations (NS_7 and NS_8) are open coastal waters. We will refer to each environment with the name in brackets throughout this publication. We collected seawater samples vertically from these stations and analyzed them using ultra-performance liquid chromatography - triple quadrupole mass spectrometry in tandem with ionization spray (UPLC-QqQMS/MS) (Bruker EVOQ Elite system Bruker, USA) at the Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Cádiz.

The value <0.001 in the data table refers to 'below the detection limit'. The specific limit of quantification for each pharmaceutical compound can be found in the supplementary information.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.963943
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4623663
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.963943
Provenance
Creator Adenaya, Adenike ORCID logo; Rios Quintero, Ruben; Brinkhoff, Thorsten; Lara-Martín, Pablo A; Wurl, Oliver ORCID logo; Ribas-Ribas, Mariana ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2023
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 1800 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (7.246W, 53.523S, 8.581E, 54.868N); North Sea
Temporal Coverage Begin 2023-03-12T07:12:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2023-03-19T08:16:00Z