.... The polar sac-anchoring disc complex or polar cap, an apical element of the sporal invasion apparatus, was strongly periodic acid-thiocarbohydrazide-Ag proteinate-positive. Mannose-binding lectins reacted with the polar cap and recognized several bands (from 20 to 160 kDa) on blots of E. cuniculi...

... not be established on the dayside: We will see that dayside reconnection proceeds in bursts even then. How likely is it then that steady convection will be established on the nightside? In the next two chapters, we will fit together observations of bursty convection at the magnetopause, in the polar cap and auroral...

..., respectively, for “upper” and “lower.” These provide a measure of the westward and eastward electrojet strengths. The difference between AU and AL is the AE index. MAGSAT Transient aurora at local midnight cross-polar cap potential energy in the ring current field-aligned currents geomagnetic acitivity...

... convection pattern in the central polar cap upon the two “direct” convection cells. If and when the draped reconnected field line finds a partner in the opposite tail lobe with which to reconnect, a newly closed field line will form. Dungey had imagined that the same magnetosheath field line would reconnect...

... or better) in a temporal sequence that can articulate the evolution of activity on better than the 10-minute time scale on which polar cap convection develops. Only recently has it been possible to observe auroral activity at all local tunes around the auroral oval simultaneously and follow its time...