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# Directory Listing of Routines

# projects/geotail

- GEOTAIL_INIT
- GEOTAIL_LOAD_DATA
  Load GEOTAIL data
- GEOTAIL_LOAD_DATA_CRIB
  Crib sheet showing how to load and plot GEOTAIL data on the command line
- GEOTAIL_READ_CONFIG
  Reads the geotail_config file

# Routine Descriptions

## GEOTAIL_INIT

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    PROCEDURE:  geotail_init
    PURPOSE:    Initializes system variables for geotail data.  Can be called from idl_startup to set
                custom locations.

    $LastChangedBy: egrimes $
    $LastChangedDate: 2018-03-07 11:40:11 -0800 (Wed, 07 Mar 2018) $
    $LastChangedRevision: 24846 $
    $URL: svn+ssh://thmsvn@ambrosia.ssl.berkeley.edu/repos/spdsoft/trunk/projects/geotail/geotail_init.pro $

(See projects/geotail/geotail_init.pro)

## GEOTAIL_LOAD_DATA

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     PROCEDURE:
             geotail_load_data

     PURPOSE:
             Load GEOTAIL data

     KEYWORDS:
             trange: time range of interest
             datatype: type of GEOTAIL data to load, options include: 'lep', 'mgf', 'orbit'

     EXAMPLE:
             geotail_load_data, trange=['2016-01-10', '2016-01-11']

     NOTES:
            Problems? report them to egrimes@igpp.ucla.edu

    $LastChangedBy: egrimes $
    $LastChangedDate: 2020-08-06 11:37:46 -0700 (Thu, 06 Aug 2020) $
    $LastChangedRevision: 29001 $
    $URL: svn+ssh://thmsvn@ambrosia.ssl.berkeley.edu/repos/spdsoft/trunk/projects/geotail/geotail_load_data.pro $

(See projects/geotail/geotail_load_data.pro)

## GEOTAIL_LOAD_DATA_CRIB

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     PROCEDURE:
             geotail_load_data

     PURPOSE:
             Crib sheet showing how to load and plot GEOTAIL data on the command line

     $LastChangedBy: egrimes $
     $LastChangedDate: 2018-03-07 11:40:11 -0800 (Wed, 07 Mar 2018) $
     $LastChangedRevision: 24846 $
     $URL: svn+ssh://thmsvn@ambrosia.ssl.berkeley.edu/repos/spdsoft/trunk/projects/geotail/geotail_load_data_crib.pro $

(See projects/geotail/geotail_load_data_crib.pro)

## GEOTAIL_READ_CONFIG

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    NAME:
     geotail_read_config
    PURPOSE:
     Reads the geotail_config file
    CALLING SEQUENCE:
     cstruct = geotail_read_config()
    INPUT:
     none, for the purposes of this example the filename is hardcoded,
     'geotail_config.txt',and is put in a folder given by the routine
     istp_config_filedir, that uses the IDL
     routine app_user_dir to create/obtain it: my linux example:
     /disks/ice/home/jimm/.idl/spedas/geotail_config-4-linux
    OUTPUT:
     cstruct = a structure with the changeable fields of the !istp
               structure
     Copied from thm_read_config and tt2000_read_config lphilpott 20-jun-2012
    $LastChangedBy: egrimes $
    $LastChangedDate: 2018-03-07 11:40:11 -0800 (Wed, 07 Mar 2018) $
    $LastChangedRevision: 24846 $
    $URL: svn+ssh://thmsvn@ambrosia.ssl.berkeley.edu/repos/spdsoft/trunk/projects/geotail/geotail_read_config.pro $

(See projects/geotail/geotail_read_config.pro)