Data on the chemical composition of Lake Onego water in 2019-2021

Mikhail Zobkov; Maria Zobkova; Natalia Galakhina; Tatiana Efremova; Natalya Efremenko; Natalia Kulik

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2022.108079

Data on the chemical composition of Lake Onego water in 2019-2021

Data Brief. 2022 Mar 21:42:108079. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108079. eCollection 2022 Jun.

Authors

Mikhail Zobkov¹, Maria Zobkova¹, Natalia Galakhina¹, Tatiana Efremova¹, Natalya Efremenko¹, Natalia Kulik¹

Affiliation

¹ Northern Water Problems Institute of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 50 A. Nevskogo prospekt, Petrozavodsk, Karelia, 185030, Russia.

Abstract

The present dataset contains the chemical parameters of Lake Onego water. The data were obtained in different seasons covering the period 2019-2021. The concentration of Na⁺ and Cl^- ions, the content of organic matter (TOC, COD_Mn, COD_Cr, water color, BOD₅), nutrients (PO₄-P, TP, NH₄-N, NO₂-N, NO₃-N, TN), Fe, Mn, heavy metals (Cu, Ni, Cr, Zn, Cd, Pb), total suspended solids (TSS), conductivity, and pH of water were measured. The analyses were carried out by atomic absorption spectrometry, ICP-MS, spectrophotometric, spectrometric, gravimetric, flamephotometric, titrimetric methods, potentiometric, and conductometric determination. The data are useful for comparative analysis of the hydrochemical characteristics of Lake Onego and other large lakes, and they also allow to assess the water quality of the lake as a whole and in its particular individual areas.

Keywords: Heavy metals; Hydrochemistry; Lake Onego; Nutrients; Organic matter; Surface water.