Hoppe, Pascal; Ortiz, Victoria; Faust, Svenja; Pröfrock, Daniel (2025): Copper in sediment, water and suspended particulate matter of the tidal influenced part of the Elbe River sampled in April 2023 (LP20230402) [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.984578
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Published: 2025-09-24 • DOI registered: 2025-10-23
Abstract:
Legacy pollutants (e.g. Cu) are well studied and known to deposit in regions of sedimentation along rivers like the Elbe River located in northern Germany. However, in order to help authorities to maintain rivers as important economic transport routes numerical models are used to forecast possible pollution transportation after dredging or sediment relocation. To improve the precision of such models, valid data related to the pollution partitioning behavior and constant model validation is needed. Sediment, water and suspended particulate matter (SPM) were sampled during a sampling campaign in April 2023 and analyzed within the context of the cooperation project CTM-Elbe of BAW and Hereon. The sediment samples were taken by a box corer, homogenized, freeze-dried and wet-sieved to gain the <63 µm grain size fraction. The <63 µm grain size fraction was acid digested and measured by ICP-MS/MS for their (trace) metal mass fractions. The high-volume water samples were centrifuged with a continuous flow centrifuge (CFC) to separate the SPM from the water phase before the SPM samples were freeze-dried. The obtained SPM samples were treated analogously to the sieved sediment samples. The water samples were taken in metal-free GO-FLO sampling bottles and filtered over <0.45 µm polycarbonate filters in the laboratory before acidification with nitric acid. The filtrates were then measured for their (trace) metal concentrations with ICP-MS/MS coupled online to a seaFAST preconcentration and matrix removal system. This data set provides the Cu mass fractions in the fine grain sediment fraction of the SPM together with dissolved (<0.45 µm) Cu concentrations in the water.
Related to:
Ebeling, Anna; Zimmermann, Tristan; Klein, Ole; Irrgeher, Johanna; Pröfrock, Daniel (2022): Analysis of Seventeen Certified Water Reference Materials for Trace and Technology-Critical Elements. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, 46(2), 351-378, https://doi.org/10.1111/ggr.12422
Zimmermann, Tristan; von der Au, Marcus; Reese, Anna; Klein, Ole; Hildebrandt, Lars; Pröfrock, Daniel (2020): Substituting HF by HBF 4 – an optimized digestion method for multi-elemental sediment analysis via ICP-MS/MS. Analytical Methods, 12(30), 3778-3787, https://doi.org/10.1039/D0AY01049A
Project(s):
Changing Earth – Sustaining our Future (Helmholtz_ChangingEarth)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 53.646571 * Median Longitude: 9.597675 * South-bound Latitude: 53.397270 * West-bound Longitude: 8.487413 * North-bound Latitude: 53.967568 * East-bound Longitude: 10.387193
Date/Time Start: 2023-04-03T12:26:00 * Date/Time End: 2023-04-05T07:17:00
Minimum Elevation: -16.0 m * Maximum Elevation: -3.0 m
Event(s):
LP20230402_Stat_S_001_BoxG (S_001) * Latitude: 53.967568 * Longitude: 8.487413 * Date/Time: 2023-04-03T12:26:00 * Elevation: -12.0 m * Location: Elbe, Germany, Europe * Campaign: LP20230402 * Basis: Ludwig Prandtl * Method/Device: Box Grab (BoxG)
LP20230402_Stat_S_001_GOFLO (S_001) * Latitude: 53.967568 * Longitude: 8.487413 * Date/Time: 2023-04-03T12:26:00 * Elevation: -12.0 m * Location: Elbe, Germany, Europe * Campaign: LP20230402 * Basis: Ludwig Prandtl * Method/Device: Go-Flo bottles (GOFLO)
LP20230402_Stat_S_001_SubP (S_001) * Latitude: 53.967568 * Longitude: 8.487413 * Date/Time: 2023-04-03T12:26:00 * Elevation: -12.0 m * Location: Elbe, Germany, Europe * Campaign: LP20230402 * Basis: Ludwig Prandtl * Method/Device: Submersible pump (SubP)
Parameter(s):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Event label | Event | Hoppe, Pascal | |||
| 2 | Optional event label | Event 2 | Hoppe, Pascal | |||
| 3 | Sample code/label | Sample label | Hoppe, Pascal | |||
| 4 | DEPTH, water | Depth water | m | Hoppe, Pascal | Geocode | |
| 5 | DEPTH, sediment/rock | Depth sed | m | Hoppe, Pascal | Geocode | |
| 6 | Latitude of event | Latitude | Hoppe, Pascal | |||
| 7 | Longitude of event | Longitude | Hoppe, Pascal | |||
| 8 | Date/Time of event | Date/Time | Hoppe, Pascal | |||
| 9 | Method/Device of event | Method/Device | Hoppe, Pascal | |||
| 10 | Elevation of event | Elevation | m | Hoppe, Pascal | ||
| 11 | Copper | Cu | mg/kg | Hoppe, Pascal | Element analysis grain size fraction <63 µm via ICP-MS (total digest) | measured in sediment, <63 µm, limit of detection: 300 mg/kg, limit of quantification: 700 mg/kg |
| 12 | Copper, uncertainty | Cu unc | ± | Hoppe, Pascal | measured in sediment, <63 µm, mg/kg | |
| 13 | Copper | Cu | ng/l | Hoppe, Pascal | Element analysis water via SeaFAST-ICP-MS (<0.45 µm filtrate) | measured in water column, < 0.45 µm filtrate, limit of detection: 4 ng/l, limit of quantification: 11 ng/l |
| 14 | Copper, uncertainty | Cu unc | ± | Hoppe, Pascal | measured in water column, < 0.45 µm filtrate, ng/l | |
| 15 | Copper | Cu | mg/kg | Hoppe, Pascal | measured in suspended particulate matter, >0.45 µm, limit of detection: 200 mg/kg, limit of quantification: 400 mg/kg | |
| 16 | Copper, uncertainty | Cu unc | ± | Hoppe, Pascal | Element analysis (ICP-MS) | measured in suspended particulate matter, >0.45 µm, mg/kg |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Status:
Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
Size:
138 data points