Fast, charged particles intermittently rain down into Earth's dense atmosphere. The kinetic energy of these particles are converted into heat and light, and it ionizes the atmospheric gas, providing a source of both free and bound energy for the ionosphere; this is the <em>aurora borealis</em> and <em>australis</em>. The specific kinetic energy of the constituent particles in the aurora dictates the atmospheric response to the ongoing particle precipitation, with hard (<em>high</em>-energy) particles penetrating deeper than those that are considered soft (possessing a low kinetic energy). In this paper, we analyze a large database of precipitating particle observations from the United States' Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, and aggregate the altitude-dependent response of the ionosphere at high-latitudes, using fast ionization rate parameterizations due to two important papers by Fang et al. (10.1029/2010GL045406 and 10.1002/jgra.50484). We explore a characteristic altitude-dependent pattern in space (magnetic latitude and longitude), and time (geomagnetic activity), pertaining to the shape of the northern hemisphere, high-latitude ionosphere during local winter. We briefly discuss the implied ratio of E- to F-region Pedersen conductance, and this ratio's ramifications for the growth & decay (and thus proliferation) of plasma turbulence in the high-latitude ionosphere.