;+ ; ; PURPOSE: ; This crib sheet shows how to save the full MMS 3D velocity distribution data to ASCII files ; ; ;$LastChangedBy: egrimes $ ;$LastChangedDate: 2019-04-10 14:54:35 -0700 (Wed, 10 Apr 2019) $ ;$LastChangedRevision: 26997 $ ;$URL: svn+ssh://thmsvn@ambrosia.ssl.berkeley.edu/repos/spdsoft/tags/spedas_5_0/projects/mms/examples/advanced/mms_part_ascii_crib.pro $ ;- trange=['2015-10-16/13:06', '2015-10-16/13:07'] mms_load_fpi, trange=trange, datatype='dis-dist', /time_clip, /center_measurement ; first, convert the velocity distribution data to the standard SPEDAS particle data structure data = mms_get_dist('mms3_dis_dist_fast') stop ; then call spd_pgs_export with the data structure; by default, this routine ; uses data.project, data.spacecraft and data.data_name to form the ; output filenames; you can set your own filenames with the filename keyword ; note: this routine creates 5 ASCII files: ; - [filename]_data.txt: the distribution data ; - [filename]_energy.txt: the energies ; - [filename]_bins.txt: active bins (0 for inactive, 1 for active) ; - [filename]_phi.txt: phi angles ; - [filename]_theta.txt: theta angles spd_pgs_export, data ;, filename='mms3_dis_dist_fast' stop ; this also works with burst mode data mms_load_fpi, trange=trange, datatype='des-dist', data_rate='brst', /time_clip, /center_measurement ; and you can select individual time indices by specifying them in the second argument ; e.g., to only return the first 3 times: data = mms_get_dist('mms3_des_dist_brst', [0, 1, 2]) spd_pgs_export, data stop ; this also works for exporting HPCA velocity distribution data mms_load_hpca, trange=trange, datatype='ion', data_rate='brst', /time_clip, /center_measurement data = mms_get_dist('mms1_hpca_hplus_phase_space_density') spd_pgs_export, data stop end