Joule heating and particle heating induced by particle precipitation are the two most important thermospheric heating sources in the auroral zones and compete with the solar irradiance during geomagnetic storm times (D. J. Knipp et al., 2004). Most of the energy deposited in the magnetosphere by the solar wind is ultimately dissipated in the ionosphere-thermosphere (I-T) system as a result of the convergence of Poynting flux and auroral particle precipitation that heats the atmosphere directly through collision and indirectly by increasing Joule heating (G.