READ ME File For 'Validation of a method to quantify microfibres present in aquatic surface microlayers'

Dataset DOI: doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D1409

ReadMe Author: Freya Radford, University of Southampton [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9742-279X]

This dataset supports the publication:
AUTHORS:Joshua Birkenhead, Freya Radford, Jessica L. Stead, Andrew B. Cundy, Malcolm D. Hudson 
TITLE:Validation of a method to quantify microfibres present in aquatic surface microlayers
JOURNAL:Scientific Reports


This dataset contains:

- Percentage recovery of six types of microfibre (wool, polyethylene terephthalate, rayon, acryllic, cotton and polypropylene) using a glass plate dipping method in three water types (fresh, brackish and salt)
- Counts of contamination present in recovery experiments

Date of data collection: October 2019 to March 2020

Licence: CC BY

Date that the file was created: October, 2020