;+ ; SECS load data crib sheet ; ; SECS (Spherical Elementary Currents) data has two data types ; EICS (Equivalent Ionospheric Currents) are the horizontal currents and ; SECA (SEC Amplitudes) are the current amplitudes ; ; Data resolution is 1 minute. Note: Datasets are large. It's recommended smaller time ; ranges be used ; ; The ground based magnetometer stations used to derive the data are available for some dates. ; ; The SECS archive is created and maintained by James Weygand ; ; All data are available at http://vmo.igpp.ucla.edu ; ; do you have suggestions for this crib sheet? ; please send them to clrussell@igpp.ucla.edu ; ;- ; load the data ; load 3 minutes worth of 'eics' data secs_load_data, trange=['2015-10-15/00:00:00', '2015-10-15/00:03:00'], datatype='eics' ; check the tplot variables that were created, geographic latitude and longitude and jx (m/A, ; which points to geographic north) and jy (m/A, which points to geographic east) tplot_names stop secs_load_data, trange=['2015-10-15/00:00:00', '2015-10-15/00:03:00'], datatype='seca' ; check the tplot variables that were create tplot_names stop ; if no datatype is specified both types will be downloaded del_data, '*' secs_load_data, trange=['2015-10-15/00:00:00', '2015-10-15/00:03:00'] tplot_names stop ; to extract the data from the tplot variable get_data, 'secs_eics_latlong', data=dll help, dll get_data, 'secs_eics_jxy', data=dxy help, dxy get_data, 'secs_seca_amp', data=da help, da ; plot some data thm_init xsize=600 ysize=850 window, 0, xsize=xsize, ysize=ysize !p.multi=[0,1,3,0,0] plot, dll.x, dll.y[*,1], psym=2 plot, dxy.x, dxy.y[*,0], psym=4 plot, da.x, da.y, psym=6 stop ; for days that have a list of stations you can use the get_stations keyword timespan, '2008-03-09' tr=timerange() secs_load_data, trange=tr, datatype='eics', /get_stations tplot_names ; there should be a new tplot variable 'secs_stations' get_data, 'secs_stations', data=d help, d ; d.x is the date, d.y is the station name, and d.v is the station location stop print, 'done' end