Dr. Jonathan Rae - Research Associate

Dr. Jonathan Rae
Research Associate
Department of Physics
University of Alberta
Office Ph: (780) 492-8179
Fax: (780) 492-0714
E-mail: jrae@space.ualberta.ca
Web: www.space.ualberta.ca/~jrae

2000 Ph.D. Physics University of Leicester, England
1997 B.Sc.(Hons) in Physics University of Leicester, England

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Dr Jonathan Rae is a SuperDARN Research Fellow working under Dr. Frances Fenrich. His major interest is the study of the polar cusp region of the Earth's Magnetosphere-Ionosphere system using the SuperDARN HF radar system and a variety of satellites, including Polar and Cluster-II. Recently he has started to compare this actual data with the results predicted via the Lyon-Fedder Global MHD model and that of an empirical data-based model in order to further out understanding of solar wind entry into the near-Earth environment.

Current Positions:
Research Associate
SuperDARN research fellow


Areas of Expertise:
Interaction of the solar wind with the near-Earth environment, specifically the process of transient dayside reconnection
Probing of the near-Earth environment with ground-based and spacecraft instruments.
IDL and Fortran programming, expertise in Windows, Linux and UNIX environments
Modelling ionopsheric convection with both Global MHD model and empirically data-based model.

Publications:
I. J. Rae, M. Lester, S. E. Milan, T. A. Fritz, M. Grande, and J. D. Scudder, Polar observations of the time-varying cusp, J. Geophys. Res. , 106 , 19,057, 2001

D. M. Wright, T. K. Yeoman, I. J. Rae, J. Storey, A. B. Stockton-Chalk, J. L. Roeder, and K.-H. Trattner, Ground and Space-based observations of Giant Pulsations and their associated source mechanisms, J. Geophys. Res. , 106 , 10,837-10,852, 2001.

J. A. Davies, T. K. Yeoman, I. J. Rae, S. E. Milan, M. Lester, and K. A. McWilliams, Joint CUTLASS Finland and EISCAT VHF radar observations of the ionospheric signatures of dayside transient reconnection, Ann. Geophysicae, 20, 781-794, 2002.

I. J. Rae, F. R. Fenrich, M. Lester, K. A. McWilliams, J. D. Scudder, Solar wind modulation of cusp particle signatures and their associated ionospheric flow , J. Geophys. Res. , 109 (A3): Art. No. A03223 MAR 31 2004

J. T. Mathews, I. R. Mann, I. J. Rae, and J. Moen, Multi-instrument observations of ULF wave-driven discrete auroral arcs propagating sunward and equatorward from the poleward boundary of the duskside auroral oval, Physics of Plasmas Vol 11(4) pp. 1250-1259. April 2004

Kabin K, Rankin R, Rostoker G, Marchand R, Rae IJ , Ridley AJ, Gombosi TI, Clauer CR, DeZeeuw DL, Open-closed field line boundary position: A parametric study using an MHD model, J. Geophys. Res. , 109 (A5): Art. No. A05222 MAY 28 2004

Rae IJ , Fenrich FR, Lester M, McWilliams KA, Scudder JD, Solar wind modulation of cusp particle signatures and their associated ionospheric flows, J. Geophys. Res. , 109 (A3): Art. No. A03223 MAR 31 2004

Zieger B, Vogt J, Glassmeier KH, Gombosi TI, Magnetohydrodynamic simulation of an equatorial dipolar paleomagnetosphere, J. Geophys. Res. , 109 (A7): Art. No. A07205 JUL 10 2004

I. J. Rae et al., Evolution and Characteristics of Global Pc5 ULF Waves During a High Solar Wind Speed Interval., submitted to J. Geophys. Res. , 2004.

R. Rankin, K. Kabin, J. Y. Lu, I. R. Mann, R. Marchand, I. J. Rae, V. T. Tikhonchuk, E. F. Donovan, Magnetospheric field line resonances: ground-based observations and modeling, submitted to J. Geophys. Res. , 2004.

Clare Watt, Robert Rankin, I. Jonathan Rae, Darren Wright , Self-consistent Electron Acceleration due to Inertial Alfven Wave Pulses, submitted to J. Geophys. Res. , 2004.

For more information, please visit his home page.