Surface microplastics abundance in the Eurasian Arctic from 2019-09-19 to 2019-10-21 (NCEI Accession 0259526)

This study estimated the load of surface microplastics (i.e. plastics less than 5mm, reported in unit of pieces/m^3) in the Eurasian Arctic (Barents, Kara, Laptev and East-Siberian Seas) from 2019-09-19 to 2019-10-21. Microplastics data were collected using neuston trawl net aboard R/V Akademik Mstislav Keldysh. This dataset contains the results from all 48 surface net tows, in a spreadsheet format. Tows were conducted for 30 min at an average cruising speed of 2 knots.