EDI Data in SPEDAS
The MMS EDI measures the electric and magnetic fields by tracking electron beams emitted by the instrument. SPEDAS provides command line and GUI access to the MMS EDI data.
Release notes can be found here:
https://lasp.colorado.edu/mms/sdc/public/datasets/fields/ (MM EDI_Data Products Guide Rev 1.2 )
For basic command line access see:
/projects/mms/examples/basic/mms_load_edi_crib.pro
EDI Data
L2
EDI l2 electric field and ExB drift velocity
To load EDI l2 data for MMS1 on December 23, 2015:
MMS> mms_load_edi, probes='1', data_rate='srvy', datatype='efield', level='l2', trange=['2015-12-23','2015-12-24']
MMS> tplot, 'mms1_edi_'+ ['e_gsm_srvy_l2', 'vdrift_gsm_srvy_l2']
Quicklook
EDI quicklook electric field and ExB drift velocity - "bestarg" and "beam convergence" methods
To load EDI quicklook data for MMS1 on December 23, 2015:
MMS> mms_load_edi, probes='1', data_rate='srvy', datatype='efield', level='ql', trange=['2015-12-23','2015-12-24']
MMS> tplot, 'mms1_edi_'+ ['E_dmpa', 'E_bc_dmpa', 'v_ExB_dmpa', 'v_ExB_bc_dmpa']