The effect of subauroral polarization streams (SAPS) on the thermosphere and ionosphere during the 2015 St. Patrick’s day major storm

Wenbin Wang1, Elsayed R Talaat2, Alan Geoffrey Burns3, Jing Liu3, Shunrong Zhang4 and Yongliang Zhang5, (1)High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States