Data for article: Microplastics in Arctic Waters of the Finnish Sámi Area

<strong>Description of the dataset:</strong> This dataset was created in 2021 and made open in 2023 Lapland_Sampling.xlsx contains all sampling dates and coordinates alongside with sample names, volumes, area descriptions and codes used to describe the sites in the article. Lapland_RawData.xlsx contains all the raw data for all the samples. This includes polymer types, particle sizes and an estimation of particle mass. Furthermore, the file contains a table with all the polymer types and their counts from all samples. <strong>Data creation and processing:</strong> The raw data was created by measuring filtered water samples with FPA-FTIR . The spectral analysis was done with siMPle (Primpke et al. 2020, <em>Applied Spectroscopy</em>, 74, 1127-1138, https://doi.org/10.1177/0003702820917760).