Binzheng Zhang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peter A Delamere, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Kareem Sorathia, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Xuanye Ma, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, United States, Viacheslav G Merkin, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, United States, John Lyon, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States and Zhonghua Yao, Laboratorie de physique Atmospherique et Planetaire, Liege, Belgium