Abstract. A 2-year dataset of a stand-alone mooring, deployed in November 2020 down the Levante Canyon in the eastern Ligurian Sea, is presented. The Levante Canyon Mooring (LCM) is a deep submarine multidisciplinary observatory positioned at 608 m depth in a key ecosystem area. The Levante Canyon hosts a valuable and vulnerable ecosystem of deep-living cold-water corals (CWCs), studied and monitored since 2013 through integrated mapping of the seabed and water column. The 2-year dataset, acquired on the mooring and presented here (data from November 2020 to October 2022), includes measurements conducted with both current meters and conductivity–temperature–depth (CTD) probes and provides information about the hydrodynamics and thermohaline properties across almost the entire water column. The observatory is still ongoing, and the dataset is regularly updated. All the described data are publicly available from https://doi.org/10.17882/92236 (Borghini et al., 2022). They must therefore be preserved and are of considerable scientific interest.

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东利古里亚海（地中海）海底峡谷冷水珊瑚栖息地周围的深水水动力观测

摘要。介绍了 2020 年 11 月部署在东利古里亚海莱万特峡谷的独立系泊设备的 2 年数据集。Levante Canyon Mooring (LCM) 是一个深海多学科观测站，位于关键生态系统区域的 608 米深处。莱万特峡谷拥有一个宝贵而脆弱的深海冷水珊瑚 (CWC) 生态系统，该生态系统自 2013 年以来通过海床和水柱的综合测绘进行了研究和监测。在系泊设备上获取并在此处显示的 2 年数据集（2020 年 11 月至 2022 年 10 月的数据）包括使用电流计和电导率-温度-深度 (CTD) 探头进行的测量，并提供有关整个区域的流体动力学和热盐特性的信息几乎整个水柱。天文台仍在进行中，并且数据集会定期更新。所有描述的数据均可从 https://doi.org/10.17882/92236 公开获得（Borghini 等人，2022 年）。因此，它们必须得到保护，并且具有相当大的科学意义。