• Do the Throat Auroras Create Polar Cap Patches? 

      Zhang, Duan; Zhang, Qing-He; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Xu, Tong; Xing, Zan-Yang; Lyons, L.R.; Han, De-Sheng; Zhang, Hong-Bo; Ma, Yu-Zhang; Hu, Ze-Jun; Liu, Jian-Jun; Wang, Yong; Wang, Xiang-Yu (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Throat auroras and polar cap patches are common phenomena in the polar ionosphere resulting from magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling. A campaign was organized, with all-sky imagers at Yellow River Station, the European ...
    • Multi-Instrument Observations of the Evolution of Polar Cap Patches Associated With Flow Shears and Particle Precipitation 

      Zhang, Duan; Zhang, Qing-He; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Xing, Zan-Yang; Lyons, L.R.; Yang, Hui-Gen; Li, Guo-Jun; Hosokawa, Keisuke; Shinbori, Atsuki; Ma, Yu-Zhang; Wang, Yong; Wang, Xiang-Yu (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Simultaneous observations from Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, Swarm, Resolute Bay all-sky imagers, GPS Total Electron Content and Super Dual Auroral Radar Network, are used to investigate the evolution and key ...
    • A space hurricane over the Earth’s polar ionosphere 

      Zhang, Qing-He; Zhang, Yong-Liang; Wang, Chi; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Lyons, Larry R.; Lockwood, Michael; Yang, Hui-Gen; Tang, Bin-Bin; Moen, Jøran Idar; Xing, Zan-Yang; Ma, Yu-Zhang; Wang, Xiang-Yu; Ning, Ya-Fei; Xia, Li-Dong (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      In Earth’s low atmosphere, hurricanes are destructive due to their great size, strong spiral winds with shears, and intense rain/precipitation. However, disturbances resembling hurricanes have not been detected in Earth’s ...
    • Unusual shrinkage and reshaping of Earth’s magnetosphere under a strong northward interplanetary magnetic field 

      Wang, Xiang-Yu; Zhang, Qing-He; Wang, Chi; Zhang, Yong-Liang; Tang, Bin-Bin; Xing, Zan-Yang; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Lyons, Larry R.; Lockwood, Michael; Zong, Qiu-Gang; Li, Guo-Jun; Liu, Jing; Ma, Yu-Zhang; Wang, Yong (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The Earth’s magnetosphere is the region of space where plasma behavior is dominated by the geomagnetic field. It has a long tail typically extending hundreds of Earth radii (RE) with plentiful open magnetic fluxes threading ...