Earth's ion upflow associated with polar cap patches:global and in-situ observations

Qing-He Zhang, Institute of Space Sciences, Shandong University, Weihai, China, Qiugang Zong, Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, Michael M Lockwood, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, Roderick A Heelis, University Texas Dallas, Richardson, United States, Marc R Hairston, University of Texas at Dallas, William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, Richardson, TX, United States, Jun Liang, University of Calgary, Physics and Astronomy, Calgary, AB, Canada, Ian McCrea, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom, Bei-Chen Zhang, Polar Research Institute of China, Shanghai, China, Joran Moen, University of Oslo, Department of Physics, Oslo, Norway, Shunrong Zhang, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, Yongliang Zhang, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, J Michael Ruohoniemi, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States and Mark Lester, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom