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Additional data for "Settling Velocities of Small Microplastic Fragments and Fibers"
Summary
Researchers provided supplementary data for a study on settling velocities of small microplastic fragments and fibers, including single-particle raw data from settling experiments, computed drag coefficients for each measured MP fragment and fiber, and protocols for preparing microfibers for analysis.
This repository provides additional files for the publication "Settling Velocities of Small Microplastic Fragments and Fibers" by Stefan Dittmar, Aki Sebastian Ruhl, Korinna Altmann and Martin Jekel (DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c09602). Please also see the respective correction of this paper (10.1021/acs.est.5c08557.), which included an update of this repository. It contains:- single particle raw data from settling experiments (1_settling_data.zip)- drag coefficients computed for each measured MP fragment and fiber (2_drag_coefficients.zip)- guide (.pdf) for preparing microfibers following the protocol by M. Cole (2016, DOI: 10.1038/srep34519) and length measurements of produced fiber fractions (3_cryosectioning.zip) Please consider the included readme files ('0_README_settling_data.txt', '0_README_drag_coefficients.txt', '0_README_length_measurements.txt') and revisit main publication and supplement information for further context on this data set.
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