Professor Jonathan Rae

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• 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

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• 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

• 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

Physics PhD August 31 2001