Table 2 DMS and DMSP concentrations in environmental samples obtained from the polar oceans

 Canadian High Arctic

Surface water

Oct to Nov 2007

(0.05–0.80)

DMSPp (2–39)

[44]

DMSPd (< 2)

 Barents Sea

Surface water

May 1993

5.20 (2–22.50)

DMSPp (6–10)

[45]

DMSPd (4–8)

 Baffin Bay/Lancaster Sound

Surface water

Sep 2008

1.31

DMSPp 18.20 (5–70)

[46]

DMSPd 0.80 (0.30–2.10)

 Baffin Bay

Water column

Apr to Jun 1998

0.60 (0–6.70)

(0–9.50)

[47]

Sea ice

-

DMSPp 126 (8.70–987)

[48]

 Central Arctic Ocean

Surface water

Aug to Oct 1991

(0.04–12)

-

[49]

 Storfjorden

Surface water

Aug 2005

-

DMSPp (5–50)

[50]

Subsurface and brine enriched water

-

DMSPp (< 10)

 Amundsen Sea

Polynya waters and sea ice zone

Jan to Feb 2009

(< 1–350)

-

[51]

 Prydz Bay

Coastal waters

Dec 1988 to Feb 1989

(12–111)

-

[52]

 Davis Station

Coastal waters

May 1987 to Jan 1988

(1–290)

(1–100)

[53]

 Adélie Land

Platelet ice-like layer

Nov to Dec 1999

(4–74)

-

[54]

Brines

(20–60)

-

Underlying water

(1–17)

-

 East Antarctica

Upper 150 m of the water column

Jan to Mar 2006

8 (0–63)

DMSPp 11 (nd-38)

[55]

DMSPd 5 (nd-36 )

DMSPt 16 (nd-54)

 Ross Sea

Sub-euphotic water column

Dec 2004 to Jan 2005, Nov 2005

-

(0.5–22)

[56]

 Palmer Station

Surface seawater

Jan to Feb 1994

(0.70–3.70)

-

[57]

Coastal waters

Oct 2012 and Mar 2013

(0–20)

(8–160)

[27]

 Weddell Sea

Open water

Oct to Nov 1988

-

12.20 (6.50–22.90)

[58]

Ice zone

10.50 (0.40–46.10)

Brine

61.80 (7.55–203.60)

Pack ice

322 (4–1664)

 Drake Passage to the Bellingshausen Sea

Surface waters

Oct to Nov 1992

(0.15–27)

(2–69)

[59]

Ice cores

2 (0.2–27)

(1–28)