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Abstract Factors related to two sources of energy input to the ionosphere, the Poynting flux associated with both quasistatic fields (
S dc) and Alfvénic fluctuations (S ac), and the soft electron precipitation, are investigated to evaluate their correlations with the O+and the H+outflows in the dayside cusp region by using recalibrated FAST/Time‐of‐Flight Energy, Angle, and Mass Spectrograph (TEAMS) data during the 24–25 September 1998 geomagnetic storm studied by Strangeway et al. (2005,https://doi.org/10.1029/2004JA010829 ). The Poynting flux and the soft electron precipitation are well correlated with ion outflow flux in the dayside cusp region.S dcshows the highest correlation with the O+outflows, while it is the electron number flux that correlates best with the H+outflows. The Alfvénic waves play an essential role in accelerating outflows. The averaged O+/H+flux ratio is 3.0 and is positively correlated to the Poynting flux, suggesting that the O+flux increases more strongly with the energy input.