Ten years (2006-2016) of oceanographic temperature, salinity, pressure, density and dissolved oxygen data from the Saanich Inlet cabled observatory

Along the southern coast of British Columbia, ONC maintains a cabled array and instrument platform at a depth of roughly 100m in Saanich Inlet, a fjord on Vancouver Island. The instrument platform was deployed in February 2006 and has been maintained continuously since then.

The core oceanographic instrument on the Saanich Inlet instrument platform is an industry standard pumped Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth (CTD) suite of sensors, including sensors to measure the concentration of dissolved Oxygen. These data are used to generate time series of seawater temperature, salinity, pressure, and dissolved oxygen. Over the duration of the time series, the pumped CTD has generally sampled at one-minute intervals, varying slightly during maintenance and servicing periods.