Barkley Canyon Upper Slope Vertical Profiler Instrument Package Deployed 2012-05-28

The VPS Instrument Package was deployed on 2012-05-28 at Barkley Canyon Upper Slope. Upper Slope is a location within Barkley Canyon, which is located on the upper continental slope. This device is a Vertical Profiler Instrument Package. A Vertical Profiler Instrument Packages is a mobile instrument platform that consists of a seafloor base unit and an instrument package that floats on a tethered cable. Numerous instruments can be mounted to monitor oceanic variables, including: salinity, temperature, dissolved gases and nutrients, irradiance, currents, plankton and fish concentrations, and marine mammal movements. It was deployed on a profiling platform. Data from this deployment were archived and made available through Ocean Networks Canada's Oceans 2.0 digital infrastructure, with quality assurance and derived data products following established practices.

VPS仪器套件（VPS Instrument Package）于2012年5月28日部署在巴克利峡谷上斜坡（Barkley Canyon Upper Slope）。上斜坡是巴克利峡谷内的一处区域，而巴克利峡谷位于大陆架上斜坡地带。该设备为垂直剖面仪仪器套件（Vertical Profiler Instrument Package），此类套件属于移动式仪器平台，由海底基座单元与系留缆绳上漂浮的仪器舱组成。可搭载多类仪器以监测多项海洋环境变量，包括盐度、温度、溶解气体与营养盐、辐照度、海流、浮游生物与鱼类种群密度，以及海洋哺乳动物活动轨迹。该设备部署于剖面观测平台之上。本次部署获取的数据已完成归档，并通过加拿大海洋网络（Ocean Networks Canada）的Oceans 2.0数字基础设施对外共享，其质量控制流程及衍生数据产品均遵循既定行业规范。