Barkley Canyon Upper Slope Vertical Profiler Instrument Package Deployed 2021-03-26

The VPS Instrument Package was deployed on 2021-03-26 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.

垂直剖面仪仪器套装（VPS Instrument Package）于2021年3月26日部署于巴克利峡谷上斜坡（Barkley Canyon Upper Slope）。巴克利峡谷坐落于大陆架上斜坡区域，其上斜坡地带为该峡谷内的一处观测站位。该设备即为垂直剖面仪仪器套装（Vertical Profiler Instrument Package），属于移动式仪器平台，由海底基座单元与系泊缆绳上悬浮的仪器舱组成。该平台可搭载多种仪器，用于监测各类海洋环境参数，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。该设备以剖面观测平台的形式完成部署。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；所有数据均遵循既定规范开展质量控制，并生成衍生数据产品。