Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1153-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1153-2020
Data description paper
 | 
20 May 2020
Data description paper |  | 20 May 2020

Spatio-temporal assessment of the polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) sediment contamination in four major French river corridors (1945–2018)

André-Marie Dendievel, Brice Mourier, Alexandra Coynel, Olivier Evrard, Pierre Labadie, Sophie Ayrault, Maxime Debret, Florence Koltalo, Yoann Copard, Quentin Faivre, Thomas Gardes, Sophia Vauclin, Hélène Budzinski, Cécile Grosbois, Thierry Winiarski, and Marc Desmet

Related authors

Impact of rainfall variability on sedimentary and hydropower dynamics in a dam reservoir of southern France
Paul Hazet, Anthony Foucher, Olivier Evrard, and Benjamin Quesada
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2127,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2127, 2025
This preprint is open for discussion and under review for Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS).
Short summary
Distribution and sources of fallout 137Cs and 239+240Pu in equatorial and Southern Hemisphere reference soils
Gerald Dicen, Floriane Guillevic, Surya Gupta, Pierre-Alexis Chaboche, Katrin Meusburger, Pierre Sabatier, Olivier Evrard, and Christine Alewell
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 1529–1549, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-1529-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-1529-2025, 2025
Short summary
North Atlantic Oscillation polarity during the past 3000 years derived from sediments of a large lowland lake, Schweriner See, in NE Germany
Marie-Luise Adolph, Sambor Czerwiński, Mirko Dreßler, Paul Strobel, Marcel Bliedtner, Sebastian Lorenz, Maxime Debret, and Torsten Haberzettl
Clim. Past, 20, 2143–2165, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2143-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2143-2024, 2024
Short summary
Sensitivity of source sediment fingerprinting to tracer selection methods
Thomas Chalaux-Clergue, Rémi Bizeul, Pedro V. G. Batista, Núria Martínez-Carreras, J. Patrick Laceby, and Olivier Evrard
SOIL, 10, 109–138, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-10-109-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-10-109-2024, 2024
Short summary
El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-driven hypersedimentation in the Poechos Reservoir, northern Peru
Anthony Foucher, Sergio Morera, Michael Sanchez, Jhon Orrillo, and Olivier Evrard
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 27, 3191–3204, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-3191-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-3191-2023, 2023
Short summary

Related subject area

Energy and Emissions
Four-dimensional aircraft emission inventory dataset of the landing-and-takeoff cycle in China (2019–2023)
Jianlei Lang, Zekang Yang, Ying Zhou, Chaoyu Wen, and Xiaoqing Cheng
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 2489–2506, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2489-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2489-2025, 2025
Short summary
Distribution and characteristics of lightning-ignited wildfires in boreal forests – the BoLtFire database
Brittany Engle, Ivan Bratoev, Morgan A. Crowley, Yanan Zhu, and Cornelius Senf
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 2249–2276, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2249-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2249-2025, 2025
Short summary
Global and national CO2 uptake by cement carbonation from 1928 to 2024
Le Niu, Songbin Wu, Robbie M. Andrew, Zi Shao, Jiaoyue Wang, and Fengming Xi
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 2231–2247, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2231-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2231-2025, 2025
Short summary
A daily sunshine duration (SD) dataset in China from Himawari AHI imagery (2016–2023)
Zhanhao Zhang, Shibo Fang, and Jiahao Han
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 1427–1439, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-1427-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-1427-2025, 2025
Short summary
Global greenhouse gas reconciliation 2022
Zhu Deng, Philippe Ciais, Liting Hu, Adrien Martinez, Marielle Saunois, Rona L. Thompson, Kushal Tibrewal, Wouter Peters, Brendan Byrne, Giacomo Grassi, Paul I. Palmer, Ingrid T. Luijkx, Zhu Liu, Junjie Liu, Xuekun Fang, Tengjiao Wang, Hanqin Tian, Katsumasa Tanaka, Ana Bastos, Stephen Sitch, Benjamin Poulter, Clément Albergel, Aki Tsuruta, Shamil Maksyutov, Rajesh Janardanan, Yosuke Niwa, Bo Zheng, Joël Thanwerdas, Dmitry Belikov, Arjo Segers, and Frédéric Chevallier
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 1121–1152, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-1121-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-1121-2025, 2025
Short summary

Cited articles

Babut, M., Lopes, C., Pradelle, S., Persat, H., and Badot, P.-M.: BSAFs for freshwater fish and derivation of a sediment quality guideline for PCBs in the Rhône basin, France, J. Soil. Sediment., 12, 241–251, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-011-0448-y, 2012. 
Babut, M., Persat, H., Desmet, M., Lopes, C., Mourier, B., and Tronczyński, J.: Les PCB dans le Rhône, in: PCB, environnement et santé, edited by: Amiard, J.-C., Meunier, T., and Babut Tec, M., Doc/Lavoisier, Paris, 473–498, 2016. 
Baccarelli, A., Pfeiffer, R., Consonni, D., Pesatori, A. C., Bonzini, M., Patterson Jr., D. G., Bertazzi, P. A., and Landi, M. T.: Handling of dioxin measurement data in the presence of non-detectable values: Overview of available methods and their application in the Seveso chloracne study, Chemosphere, 60, 898–906, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2005.01.055, 2005. 
Barraud, R., Carcaud, N., Davodeau, H., Montembault, D., and Pordoy, C.: Groynes of the Armorican Lower Loire River, an Heritage with Uncertain Future, Norois, 228, 39–52, https://doi.org/10.4000/norois.4729, 2013. 
Bertrand, O., Mondamert, L., Grosbois, C., Dhivert, E., Bourrain, X., Labanowski, J., and Desmet, M.: Storage and source of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sediments downstream of a major coal district in France, Environ. Pollut., 207, 329–340, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2015.09.028, 2015. 
Download
Short summary
Polychlorinated biphenyl indicators (ΣPCBi) from sediment cores, bed and flood deposits, suspended particulate matter, and dredged sediments along the major French rivers (1945–2018) are compared with socio-hydrological drivers. ΣPCBi increased from 1945 to the 1990s due to urban and industrial emissions. It gradually decreased with the implementation of regulations. Specific ΣPCBi fluxes reveal the amount of PCB-polluted sediment transported by French rivers to European seas over 40 years.
Share
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint