Influence of suspended particulate matter on salinity measurements

<p>Data from a laboratoy study on the influence of suspended particulate matter on salinity measurements. Measurements were carried out in mud samples from the German Wadden Sea and from the Ems estuary.</p> <p>Prior to the measurements, the mud samples were desalinated. This was done with a combination of dialysis tubing and distilled water over several days.</p> <p>The desalted mud was then diluted with distilled water to produce solutions with sediment concentrations of 0.5, 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 75, 100, 150, 200 and 300 g/l. Then the salintiy was stepwise increase by adding NaCl. The adjusted salinities were 0, 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 g/kg. The conductivties were measured in each step with a handheld salinometer (CON 3310 by WTW) and a CTD (Sea &amp; Sun Technology CTD90). These measurements were carried out at the Institute of Geosciences at Kiel University (Germany) in September 2011.</p> <p>The data were stored in .ods format (OpenOffice / LibreOffice).</p>