Patricia Bay Vertical Profiler Instrument Package Deployed 2011-04-19

The VPS Instrument Package was deployed on 2011-04-19 at Patricia Bay. Patricia Bay is located in the Saanich Inlet, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. 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 fixed platform. Data from this deployment were archived and made available through Ocean Networks Canada's Oceans 3.0 digital infrastructure, with quality assurance and derived data products following established practices.

VPS仪器套件（VPS Instrument Package）于2011年4月19日部署在帕特丽夏湾（Patricia Bay）。帕特丽夏湾地处温哥华岛南端的萨尼奇湾（Saanich Inlet）。该设备为垂直剖面仪套件（Vertical Profiler Instrument Package），是一种移动式仪器平台，由海底基座单元与系缆漂浮式仪器舱构成。可搭载多类仪器以监测多项海洋环境变量，涵盖盐度、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。本次部署采用固定式平台实施。本批次部署产生的观测数据已完成归档，并通过加拿大海洋网络（Ocean Networks Canada）的Oceans 3.0数字基础设施对外开放，其数据质量管控与衍生数据产品均遵循既定行业规程。