This README.txt file was generated on 2022-12-20 by Daniel B. Shaw

GENERAL INFORMATION

1. Title of Dataset: Data set for "Ocean emission of microplastic by bursting bubble jet drops"

2. Author Information
	A. Principal Investigator Contact Information
		Name: Luc Deike
		Institution: Princeton University
		Address: EQUAD - D428 Princeton University
		Email: ldeike@princeton.edu
        ORCID: 0000-0002-4644-9909

	B. Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information
		Name: Daniel B. Shaw (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2834-6460)
		Institution: Princeton University
		Name: Qi Li (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4435-6220)
		Institution: Cornell University
		Name: Janine K. Nunes (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1742-2934)
		Institution: Princeton University

3. Date of data collection (single date, range, approximate date): year of 2022.

4. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. 1849762 and 2122042 to L.D. D.B.S has been partially supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under grant no. 1656466 and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University through the Mary and Randall Hack ‘69 Research Fund. QL acknowledges support from the US National Science Foundation (NSF-CAREER-2143664, NSF-AGS-2028633, NSF-CBET-2028842).

4. Licensing/Permissions: The data is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) International license.

DATA & FILE OVERVIEW

1. The experimental data taken in this study needed to produce Figures 2 and 3.

METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION

1. Description of methods used for collection of data are provided in the section "Experimental Methods" of the article and in the Supplementary Information (SI).

2. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: D.B.S. and L.D.

DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: Figure 2

1. Figure 2 shows the size of the top jet drop as measured experimentally in this work as well as the sizes measured in other experimental and numerical studies

3. size_data.csv Jet drop radii measured in this study


DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: Figure 3 (alb)

1. Figure 3 (a,b) shows the amount of microplastic captured by the jet drop as measured experimentally in this study

2. capture_data.csv Number of microplastic pieces measured in this study.