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Description: Rivers are an important transport route of anthropogenic litter from inland sources toward the sea. A citizen science approach was used to evaluate the litter pollution of rivers in Germany: schoolchildren within the project “Plastic Pirates” observed floating macrolitter at 282 sites and took meso-/microplastic samples (i.e. particles 1 mm - 25 mm) at over 164 sites across the entire country during the years 2016 and 2017. Floating macrolitter quantities ranged from 0 to 8.25 items m -1 h -1 (average of 0.34 ± 0.89 litter items m -1 h -1 ) and floating macrolitter was sighted at 54% of sampling sites. The quantities of floating meso-/microplastics ranged from 0 to 220 particles h -1 (average of 6.86 ± 24.11 meso-/microplastics h -1 ). They were present at 57% of the sampling sites. Given that only particles 〉 1 mm were sampled and analyzed, the pollution of rivers in Germany by microplastics is likely a ubiquitous problem, regardless of the size of the river. We identified six plastic pollution hotspots where 60% of all meso-/microplastics collected in the present study were found. The composition of the particles at these hotspots indicates plastic producers and possibly the construction industry and wastewater treatment plants as point sources. An identification of litter hotspots would enable specific mitigation measures, adapted to the respective source, and thereby prevent the release of large quantities of small plastic particles in rivers. The adopted large-scale citizen science approach was especially suitable to detect pollution hotspots by sampling a variety of rivers, large and small, and enabled a national overview of litter pollution in German rivers.

Description: Surface current drifters were deployed east of Brava island (Cape Verde archipelago, Atlantic ocean) from the RV Meteor during the cruise M160, which took place between 22. November and 20. December 2019. The drifters were deployed in 3 clusters with 3 drifters per cluster. The utilized drifters are the MD03i from Albatros Marine Technologies, Spain. They have a cylinder shape with a 10 cm diameter and 32 cm length. About 8 cm protrude from the water surface and a drogue of both 50 cm length and diameter is attached to each drifter 50 cm below the sea surface so that difter represent currents in the upper 1 m surface layer. The drifter obtains the GPS position and transmits it via the satellite communication system Iridium to the vessel. The overall ratio of drag area inside to drag area outside the water is 33.2.

Description: Flow-through pCO2, Temp/Sal, and O2 measurements across the Atlantic (Meteor M133 cruise 2016/17) from Cape Town, SA to Stanley, The Falkland Islands. Surface water flow-through system set up on R.V. Meteor M133 (15.12.2016 - 13.01.2017), across the Atlantic. All sensors ran on the same water in a complete flow-through sensor set-up. Depth of pumps: 5.7m from the moon pool Flow rate: ~ 5-6 L/min All data was processed following Canning et al., 2020 (In Review). Sensor data in separate files. Sensors: pCO2: CONTROS HydroC CO2 FT - formerly Kongsberg Maritime Contros GmbH, Kiel, Germany; now -4H-JENA engineering GmbH, Jena, Germany O2: CONTROS HydroFlash O2 - formerly Kongsberg Maritime Contros GmbH, Kiel, Germany SBE 45 Micro Thermosalinograph - Sea-Bird Electronics, Bellevue, USA D-SHIP data from the ships SBE 38 and 21 for sea surface temperature and salinity. Latitude and longitude also from the D-SHIP. All sensors combined together in the same flow-through set-up.

Description: Flow-through pCO2, Temp/Sal, and O2 measurements across the Atlantic (Meteor M133 cruise 2016/17) from Cape Town, SA to Stanley, The Falkland Islands. Surface water flow-through system set up on R.V. Meteor M133 (15.12.2016 - 13.01.2017), across the Atlantic. All sensors ran on the same water in a complete flow-through sensor set-up. Depth of pumps: 5.7m from the moon pool Flow rate: ~ 5-6 L/min All data was processed following Canning et al., 2020 (In Review). Sensor data in separate files. Sensors: pCO2: CONTROS HydroC CO2 FT - formerly Kongsberg Maritime Contros GmbH, Kiel, Germany; now -4H-JENA engineering GmbH, Jena, Germany O2: CONTROS HydroFlash O2 - formerly Kongsberg Maritime Contros GmbH, Kiel, Germany SBE 45 Micro Thermosalinograph - Sea-Bird Electronics, Bellevue, USA D-SHIP data from the ships SBE 38 and 21 for sea surface temperature and salinity. Latitude and longitude also from the D-SHIP. All sensors combined together in the same flow-through set-up.

Description: Flow-through pCO2, Temp/Sal, and O2 measurements across the Atlantic (Meteor M133 cruise 2016/17) from Cape Town, SA to Stanley, The Falkland Islands. Surface water flow-through system set up on R.V. Meteor M133 (15.12.2016 - 13.01.2017), across the Atlantic. All sensors ran on the same water in a complete flow-through sensor set-up. Depth of pumps: 5.7m from the moon pool Flow rate: ~ 5-6 L/min All data was processed following Canning et al., 2020 (In Review). Sensor data in separate files. Sensors: pCO2: CONTROS HydroC CO2 FT - formerly Kongsberg Maritime Contros GmbH, Kiel, Germany; now -4H-JENA engineering GmbH, Jena, Germany O2: CONTROS HydroFlash O2 - formerly Kongsberg Maritime Contros GmbH, Kiel, Germany SBE 45 Micro Thermosalinograph - Sea-Bird Electronics, Bellevue, USA D-SHIP data from the ships SBE 38 and 21 for sea surface temperature and salinity. Latitude and longitude also from the D-SHIP. All sensors combined together in the same flow-through set-up.

Description: Flow-through pCO2, pCH4 Temp/Sal, and O2 measurements in the western Baltic Sea during SCOR cruise (separate to the intercalibration exercise). Surface water flow-through sensor system set up on R.V. Elisabeth Mann Borgese (15.10.2016 - 22.10.2016). All sensors ran on the same water in a complete flow-through sensor set-up at a resolution of 1 minute. Depth of pumps: 3m Flow rate: ~ 5-6 L/min All data was processed following Canning et al., 2020 (In Review). Sensor data in separate files. Sensors: pCO2: CONTROS HydroC CO2 FT - formerly Kongsberg Maritime Contros GmbH, Kiel, Germany; now -4H-JENA engineering GmbH, Jena, Germany O2: CONTROS HydroFlash O2 - formerly Kongsberg Maritime Contros GmbH, Kiel, Germany SBE 45 Micro Thermosalinograph - Sea-Bird Electronics, Bellevue, USA Temperature, salinity, latitude and longitude included are also from the D-SHIP. Only half the cruise dataset for pCH4 due to internal issue with the sensor (see Canning et al., 2020).