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data of microplastic abundance and mass from Figure 3 of Van Sebille et al (2015, ERL) paper

Figshare 2015
van Sebille Erik, Wilcox Chris, Lebreton Laurent, Meximenko Nikolai, Denise Hardesty Britta, A van Franeker Jan, Marcus Eriksen, Siegel David, François Galgani, Law Kara Lavender

Summary

This dataset provides model-derived estimates of microplastic abundance and mass in the global ocean from three different ocean circulation models, as published in a 2015 Environmental Research Letters paper. The data allows comparison of different modeled predictions for where microplastics accumulate in the world's oceans.

Data files of the data of microplastic abundance and mass from Figure 3 of the Van Sebille et al (2015, Environmental Research Letters, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/124006) paperFigure 3a: maximenkomodel_abundance.csvFigure 3b: maximenkomodel_mass.csvFigure 3c: lebretonmodel_abundance.csvFigure 3d: lebretonmodel_mass.csvFigure 3e: vansebillemodel_abundance.csvFigure 3f: vansebillemodel_mass.csvAll these data sets are in either #/km2 or in g/km2. Use the area.csv (units in km2/gridcell) file to convert to #/gridcell or g/gridcell. Longitudes (in degrees E) and latitudes of the cell centres are also available for download; note that due to interpolation issues there are values for both 0E and 360E, in the first and last column of the mass and abundance files respectively. Sum these to get the distribution at 0E.

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