Microplastics concentration in the northern South China Sea from 2018-08-07 to 2018-08-22 (NCEI Accession 0276267)

Marine debris

This study was carried out to estimate the microplastics (i.e. plastics measuring less than 5mm, reported in unit of pieces/m^3) concentration in the northern South China Sea. Microplastics data was collected from 2018-08-07 to 2018-08-22 using stainless steel buckets. This dataset contains the results from all 69 sampling efforts, in a spreadsheet format.

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Temporal extent	2018-08-07 – 2018-08-22
Date (publication)	2023-01-12
Date (creation)	2023-01-12
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	asNeeded
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-05
Created	2026-11-05
API	package_show