Data on dissolved metals in Terengganu waters of South China Sea during pre-, post-, and Northeast Monsoon season

Marinah Mohd Ariffin; Ghazali Adiana; Joseph Bidai; Lee Siang Hing; Mohd Yusoff Nurulnadia; Meng Chuan Ong; Siriporn Pradit

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.104806

Data on dissolved metals in Terengganu waters of South China Sea during pre-, post-, and Northeast Monsoon season

Data Brief. 2019 Nov 15:27:104806. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.104806. eCollection 2019 Dec.

Authors

Marinah Mohd Ariffin¹, Ghazali Adiana¹, Joseph Bidai², Lee Siang Hing¹, Mohd Yusoff Nurulnadia¹, Meng Chuan Ong¹, Siriporn Pradit³

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Science and Marine Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21300 Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia.
² Institute of Oceanography and Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21300 Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia.
³ Marine and Coastal Resources Institute, Prince of Songkla University, 5th Floor, Academic Building Prince of Songkla University Hat Yai, Songkhla 90110, Thailand.

Abstract

Metals are natural elements existed in the environment. However, due to the rapid development of urbanisation and economic, high content of anthropogenic metals are being perceived in polluting the environment. The oceans are known to be a part of the sinking basin for anthropogenic metals ends. Dataset provided is purposely to give an overview of dissolved metals spatial distribution in the South China Sea off the east Peninsular of Malaysia during the pre-, post- and Northeast (NE) Monsoon period. Seawater samples were collected in a grid of 18 stations at 3 different water depth. Dissolved metals were pre-concentrated on-board ship using Chelex-100 resin and analysed using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrophotometry (ICPMS). The dataset shows the effect of NE Monsoon on dissolved metals spatial distribution mainly at the area closer to the land. Therefore, this dataset could reveal the past information on anthropogenic metals intrusion in the South China Sea, since Terengganu state was recently pointed to be one of the Malaysian waterfront city. Additionally, this dataset also could help in studying the cycle of metals in the southern South China Sea waters.

Keywords: Dissolved metals; Northeast monsoon; Peninsular Malaysia coast; South China Sea.