The thermospheric winds at high latitudes are impacted by both the pressure gradient changes via Joule heating and the ionospheric convection through ion drag, which are both associated with the energy deposition from the magnetosphere. Therefore, the high-latitude thermospheric winds are important indicators of the dynamic coupling process of the magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere system. Over the past decades, thermospheric winds have been observed by satellite instruments (
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