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Microplastic including tire wear particles in urban air measured in spider webs in Oldenburg, Germany, in 2020

Description: 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.

Global identifier: 

Doi(
    "10.1594/PANGAEA.963757",
)

Types: 
DataMeasurements(
    DataMeasurements {
        domain: Unspecified,
        station: None,
        measured_variables: [
            "Event label",
            "Date/Time of event",
            "Latitude of event",
            "Longitude of event",
            "Sample type",
            "Car tire wear particles",
            "Truck tire wear particles",
            "Polyethylene, cluster",
            "Polypropylene, cluster",
            "Polyethylene terephthalate, cluster",
            "Polystyrene, cluster",
            "Polyvinyl chloride, cluster",
            "Polymethylmethacrylate, cluster",
            "Sum",
        ],
        methods: [
            "Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry",
            "Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry",
            "Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry",
            "Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry",
            "Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry",
            "Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry",
            "Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry",
            "Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry",
            "Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry",
        ],
    },
)
DataMeasurements(
    DataMeasurements {
        domain: Unspecified,
        station: None,
        measured_variables: [],
        methods: [],
    },
)

Comment: #9.0 stands for not detected #0.0 stands for not quantified

Origins: /Wissenschaft/PANGAEA

Tags: Spinne ? Polyethylenterephthalat ? Polystyrol ? Polyvinylchlorid ? Reifenabrieb ? Geografische Koordinaten ? Lastkraftfahrzeug ? Omnibus ? Wohngebiet ? Luftverschmutzung ? Mikroplastik ? Studie ? Stadt ? Partikel ? Py-GC/MS ? Spatial distribution ? Spider webs ? temporal distribution ? tire wear particles ? urban air ?

Region: Oldenburg, Germany

Bounding boxes: 8.104062° .. 8.203314° x 53.102848° .. 53.17167°

License: cc-by/4.0

Language: Englisch/English

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Issued: 2023-12-18

Modified: 2023-12-18

Time ranges: 2020-03-16 - 2020-06-28

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