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• Return from greeting of SOOP vessel with 
data disk, XBT drop log, ship visit report 
Raw data transfer on Workstation 
Header information check and completion 
according XBT log and ship visit report 
Conversion of raw data in physical units, 
re-formatting in SDAF \ 
addition of comments 1 sdaf = bsh internal Scientific 
Data Analysis Format 
• First visual inspection of profiles 
median filtering (standard: 2 x q = 15), 
clipping of upper 3 cycles 
• Visual quality control 
Interactive screen editing and quality control: 
a) running mean filtering 
b) interpolation 
c) clipping of profile ends 
Depth interval compaction 
(standard: Az = 1 m) 
• Final products: profile plots 
section plots 
maps 
commented drop listings 
• Final quality control 
• Transfer of processed data to final archive in 
German Oceanographic Data Centre (DOD) at BSH 
Fig. 29: Flow diagram for processing of delayed mode XBT data.