Goßmann, Isabel; Süßmuth, Rebecca; Scholz-Böttcher, Barbara (2023): Microplastic including tire wear particles in urban air measured in spider webs in Oldenburg, Germany, in 2020 [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.963757
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Published: 2023-12-18 • DOI registered: 2024-01-16
Abstract:
This data set presents microplastic (MP) mass loads including tire wear particles (TWP) in spider webs collected from bus stops in a mid-sized German city. Spider webs were used as a spatial and temporal mirror of MP contamination in urban air. The analysis was conducted with pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS). Details concerning the measurements, quantification, and calibration are found in the related study (Goßmann et al., 2022). Spider webs were greatly contaminated with TWP, clusters of polyethylene-terephthalate (C-PET) and polyvinylchloride (C-PVC). Moreover, they provide insight into spatial differences and trends of MP/TWP load in local (urban) air on a small scale. While busy, stop and go dominated roads showed higher contamination of TWP, spider webs from residential areas were more often contaminated with MP other than TWP, predominantly C-PET. In some spider webs, MP accounted for up to ten percent of the total weight of the sample.
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Related to:
Goßmann, Isabel; Süßmuth, Rebecca; Scholz-Böttcher, Barbara (2022): Plastic in the air?! - Spider webs as spatial and temporal mirror for microplastics including tire wear particles in urban air. Science of the Total Environment, 832, 155008, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155008
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Funding:
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), grant/award no. 03F0849C: Fluxes and Fate of Microplastics in Northern European Waters (FACTS)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 53.136895 * Median Longitude: 8.169582 * South-bound Latitude: 53.102848 * West-bound Longitude: 8.104062 * North-bound Latitude: 53.171670 * East-bound Longitude: 8.203314
Date/Time Start: 2020-03-16T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2020-06-28T00:00:00
Event(s):
2020_A-A1 (A-A1) * Latitude: 53.171670 * Longitude: 8.194705 * Date/Time: 2020-03-23T00:00:00 * Location: Oldenburg, Germany * Method/Device: Wooden tooth pick * Comment: Street name: Alexanderstraße
Comment:
#9.0 stands for not detected
#0.0 stands for not quantified
Parameter(s):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Event label | Event | Goßmann, Isabel | |||
| 2 | Date/Time of event | Date/Time | Goßmann, Isabel | |||
| 3 | Latitude of event | Latitude | Goßmann, Isabel | |||
| 4 | Longitude of event | Longitude | Goßmann, Isabel | |||
| 5 | Sample type | Samp type | Goßmann, Isabel | Sample medium | ||
| 6 | Car tire wear particles | Car TWP | μg/mg | Goßmann, Isabel | Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) | |
| 7 | Truck tire wear particles | Truck TWP | μg/mg | Goßmann, Isabel | Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) | |
| 8 | Polyethylene, cluster | C-PE | μg/mg | Goßmann, Isabel | Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) | |
| 9 | Polypropylene, cluster | C-PP | μg/mg | Goßmann, Isabel | Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) | |
| 10 | Polyethylene terephthalate, cluster | C-PET | μg/mg | Goßmann, Isabel | Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) | |
| 11 | Polystyrene, cluster | C-PS | μg/mg | Goßmann, Isabel | Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) | |
| 12 | Polyvinyl chloride, cluster | C-PVC | μg/mg | Goßmann, Isabel | Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) | |
| 13 | Polymethylmethacrylate, cluster | C-PMMA | μg/mg | Goßmann, Isabel | Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) | |
| 14 | Sum | Sum | Goßmann, Isabel | Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) | sum of all contaminants, μg/mg |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Status:
Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC) * Processing Level: PANGAEA data processing level 3 (ProcLevel3)
Size:
150 data points