Barkley Canyon Upper Slope Vertical Profiler Instrument Package Deployed 2014-05-03

The VPS Instrument Package was deployed on 2014-05-03 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.

垂直剖面仪仪器组件（Vertical Profiler Instrument Package，VPS）于2014年5月3日部署在巴克利峡谷上斜坡（Barkley Canyon Upper Slope）区域。该上斜坡区域隶属于巴克利峡谷（Barkley Canyon），而巴克利峡谷地处大陆架上斜坡地带。本装置即为垂直剖面仪仪器组件，其属于移动式仪器平台，由海底基座单元与系泊缆绳上漂浮的仪器舱两部分组成。该组件可搭载多款仪器，用于监测各类海洋环境参数，具体包括盐度、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情况。本装置搭载于剖面平台之上。本次部署所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管控，并生成衍生数据产品。