Professor Jonathan Rae

Professor

Department: Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering

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Key Publications

Identifying Typical Relativistic Electron Pitch Angle Distributions: Evolution During Geomagnetic Storms, Killey, S., Rae, J., Smith, A., Bentley, S., Watt, C., Chakraborty, S., Ozeke, L., Walach, M., Sandhu, J., Rasinskaite, D. 16 Feb 2025, In: Geophysical Research Letters
Severe Space Weather Impacts on UK Critical National Infrastructure, Allcock, M., Pidgeon, A., Black , G., Prestwood, E., Frayling, A., Cucaro, S., Lecky, W., Coxon, J., Smith, A., Bentley, S., Watt, C., Wicks, R., Rae, J. 1 Jan 2025
Spontaneously Generated Flux Ropes in 3‐D Magnetic Reconnection, Bai, S., Guo, R., Xiao, Y., Shi, Q., Yao, Z., Pu, Z., Sun, W., Degeling, A., Tian, A., Rae, I., Yao, S., Zong, Q., Fu, S., Bu, Y., Russell, C., Burch, J., Gershman, D. 1 Jan 2025, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
Understanding and Modeling the Dynamics of Storm‐Time Atmospheric Neutral Density Using Random Forests, Murphy, K., Halford, A., Liu, V., Klenzing, J., Smith, J., Garcia‐Sage, K., Pettit, J., Rae, I. Jan 2025, In: Space Weather
Automatic Encoding of Unlabeled Two Dimensional Data Enabling Similarity Searches: Electron Diffusion Regions and Auroral Arcs, Smith, A., Rae, J., Stawarz, J., Sun, W., Bentley, S., Koul, A. Jan 2024, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
Effects of Plasma Density on the Spatial and Temporal Scale Sizes of Plasmaspheric Hiss, Zhang, S., Rae, I., Liu, K., Watt, C., Shi, Q., Tian, A., Degeling, A., Guo, R., Wang, M., Shen, X., Yao, F., Li, J. Mar 2024, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
Evolution of Energetic Proton Parallel Pressure Anisotropy at Geosynchronous Altitudes: Potential Role in Triggering Substorm Expansion Phase Onset, Babu, S., Mann, I., Dimitrakoudis, S., Ozeke, L., Rae, I., Forsyth, C., Smith, A. 28 Jun 2024, In: Geophysical Research Letters
Ground-based and additional science support for SMILE, Carter, J., Dunlop, M., Forsyth, C., Oksavik, K., Donovan, E., Kavanagh, A., Milan, S., Sergienko, T., Fear, R., Sibeck, D., Connors, M., Yeoman, T., Tan, X., Taylor, M., McWilliams, K., Gjerloev, J., Barnes, R., Billet, D., Chisham, G., Dimmock, A., Freeman, M., Han, D., Hartinger, M., Hsieh, S., Hu, Z., James, M., Juusola, L., Kauristie, K., Kronberg, E., Lester, M., Manuel, J., Matzka, J., McCrea, I., Miyoshi, Y., Rae, J., Ren, L., Sigernes, F., Spanswick, E., Sterne, K., Steuwer, A., Sun, T., Walach, M., Walsh, B., Wang, C., Weygand, J., Wild, J., Yan, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, Q. 1 Jan 2024, In: Earth and Planetary Physics
Heliophysics Great Observatories and international cooperation in Heliophysics: An orchestrated framework for scientific advancement and discovery, Kepko, L., Nakamura, R., Saito, Y., Vourlidas, A., Taylor, M., Mandrini, C., Blanco-Cano, X., Chakrabarty, D., Daglis, I., De Nardin, C., Petrukovich, A., Palmroth, M., Ho, G., Harra, L., Rae, J., Owens, M., Donovan, E., Lavraud, B., Reeves, G., Tripathi, D., Vilmer, N., Hwang, J., Antiochos, S., Wang, C. 15 May 2024, In: Advances in Space Research
Ion-Scale Magnetic Flux Ropes and Loops in Earth's Magnetotail: An Automated, Comprehensive Survey of MMS data between 2017 and 2022, Smith, A., Sun, W., Slavin, J., Rae, J. Mar 2024, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Current and Recent Projects

STFC Consolidated Grant for the Solar and Space Physics Group at 51��, McLaughlin, J. (Principal Investigator), Rae, J. (Co Investigator), Science and Technologies Facilities Council, 01/04/23 - 31/03/26, £1,289,803.00

PGR Supervision

Vincent Briat Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to forecast Earth’s Van Allen Radiation Belts Start Date: 23/09/2024
Ishbel Carlyle Searching for substorm onset using Earth’s aurora Start Date: 25/09/2023
Dylan Weston Earth’s Van Allen Radiation Belts: Why are they so hard to forecast? Start Date: 01/10/2023
Shannon Killey Using Machine Learning to understand electron pitch angle evolution of the Van Allen Radiation Belts Start Date: 01/10/2021

Qualifications

Physics PhD August 31 2001

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