Professor Jonathan Rae

Professor

School: Engineering, Physics and Mathematics

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Key Publications

Diagnosing the Rapid Loss of Outer Radiation Belt Electrons Due To Strong Chorus-Driven Wave-Particle Interactions Along an Electron Injection Path, Chakraborty, S., Mann, I., Olifer, L., Black, R., Allanson, O., Rae, J., Godwin Ozeke, L., Watt, C. 2 Aug 2025, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
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
Magnetic Silhouettes in Jupiter's Non-Auroral Ionosphere, Knowles, K., Stallard, T., O'Donoghue, J., Moore, L., Agiwal, O., Melin, H., Roberts, K., Tiranti, P., Rae, J., Thomas, E., Connerney, J., James, M. May 2025, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
Occurrence Rates and Variability of Whistler-Mode Waves in the Plasma Trough, Watt, C., Meredith, N., Wong, J., Murphy, K., Rae, I., Chakraborty, S., Bentley, S., Allanson, O., Rodger, C. Oct 2025, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
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
The Effect of Intense Chorus Waves on the Storm-Time Outer Radiation Belt Relativistic Electron Dynamics, Chakraborty, S., Watt, C., Rae, J., Mann, I., Olifer, L., Smith, A., Ripoll, J., Rodger, C. 19 Aug 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
VAMPIRE: Using a Random Forest to Forecast Earth's Outer Van Allen Radiation Belt, Weston, D., Rae, I., Smith, A., Murphy, K., Watt, C., Bocquet, F., Bingham, S., Henley, E. Dec 2025, In: Space Weather
Why Do Sudden Commencements Sometimes Generate Disproportionate Geomagnetically Induced Currents?, Smith, A., Rodger, C., Pratscher, K., Manus, D., Rae, J., Ratliff, D., Clilverd, M., Lawrence, E., Beggan, C., Richardson, G., Fogg, A., Oliveira, D., Hübert, J., Petersen, T., Dalzell, M. 1 Oct 2025, In: Space Weather

Current and Recent Projects

STFC Consolidated Grant for the Solar and Space Physics Group at Northumbria University, 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

Shannon Killey Using Machine Learning to understand electron pitch angle evolution of the Van Allen Radiation Belts Start Date: 01/10/2021 End Date: 23/05/2025
Ishbel Carlyle Searching for substorm onset using Earth’s aurora Start Date: 25/09/2023 End Date: 17/10/2025
Dylan Weston Earth’s Van Allen Radiation Belts: Why are they so hard to forecast? Start Date: 01/10/2023
Ishbel Carlyle Searching for substorm onset using Earth’s aurora Start Date: 25/09/2023
Vincent Briat Machine -Learning-Based Modelling and Forecasting of Relativistic Electrons in the Outer Van Allen Radiation Belt Start Date: 23/09/2024
Dylan Weston Earth’s Van Allen Radiation Belts: Why are they so hard to forecast? Start Date: 01/10/2023 End Date: 17/10/2025
Vincent Briat Machine -Learning-Based Modelling and Forecasting of Relativistic Electrons in the Outer Van Allen Radiation Belt Start Date: 23/09/2024 End Date: 17/10/2025