Dr Henrik Melin

Associate Professor

School: Engineering, Physics and Mathematics

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Key Publications

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JWST Discovers the Vertical Structure of Uranus' Ionosphere, Tiranti, P., Melin, H., Moore, L., Thomas, E., Knowles, K., Stallard, T., Roberts, K., O'Donoghue, J. 19 Feb 2026, In: Geophysical Research Letters
Short-Term Variability of Jupiter's Satellite Footprints as Spotted by JWST, Johnson, R., Stallard, T., Schmidt, C., Thomas, E., Knowles, K., Tiranti, P., O'Donoghue, J., Moore, L., Melin, H., Roberts, K., Szalay, J. 16 Feb 2026, In: Geophysical Research Letters
A new rotation period and longitude system for Uranus, Lamy, L., Prangé, R., Berthier, J., Tao, C., Kim, T., Roth, L., Barthélémy, M., Chaufray, J., Rymer, A., Dunn, W., Wibisono, A., Melin, H. 1 May 2025, In: Nature Astronomy
Auroral and Non‐Auroral H3+ Ion Winds at Uranus With Keck‐NIRSPEC and IRTF‐iSHELL, Thomas, E., Stallard, T., Melin, H., Chowdhury, M., Moore, L., O'Donoghue, J., Johnson, R., Wang, R., Knowles, K., Tiranti, P., Dello Russo, N., Vervack, R., Kawakita, H. 16 Apr 2025, In: Geophysical Research Letters
Discovery of H+3 and infrared aurorae at Neptune with JWST, Melin, H., Moore, L., Fletcher, L., Hammel, H., O'Donoghue, J., Stallard, T., Milam, S., Roman, M., King, O., Rowe-Gurney, N., Thomas, E., Wang, R., Tiranti, P., Harkett, J., Knowles, K. 1 May 2025, In: Nature Astronomy
Dominant Drivers of Jupiter's H3+ Northern Aurora:1. Magnetic Field Strength and Planetary Local Time, Stallard, T., Knowles, K., Melin, H., Wang, R., Thomas, E., Moore, L., O'Donoghue, J., Johnson, R., Miller, S., Coxon, J. 19 Aug 2025, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
Dominant trends in Jupiter's H3+ northern aurora: II. Magnetospheric mapping, Stallard, T., Knowles, K., Melin, H., Wang, R., Thomas, E., Moore, L., O'Donoghue, J., Johnson, R., Miller, S., Coxon, J. 1 Oct 2025, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
Dynamic infrared aurora on Jupiter, Nichols, J., King, O., Clarke, J., de Pater, I., Fletcher, L., Melin, H., Moore, L., Tao, C., Yeoman, T. 12 May 2025, In: Nature Communications
h3ppy: An open-source Python package for modelling and fitting H+3 spectra, Melin, H. 27 Mar 2025, In: The Journal of Open Source Software
JWST/NIRSpec detection of complex structures in Saturn's sub-auroral ionosphere and stratosphere, Stallard, T., Moore, L., Melin, H., Agiwal, O., Chowdhury, M., Johnson, R., Knowles, K., Thomas, E., Tiranti, P., O'Donoghue, J., Mohamed, K., Mueller-Wodarg, I., Fletcher, L., de Pater, I., Fouchet, T., Badman, S. 16 Sep 2025, In: Geophysical Research Letters

PGR Supervision

Paola Tiranti ??Vertical Ionospheric Profiles at the Outer Planets from the James Webb Space Telescope? Start Date: 01/10/2024
Samantha Baranowska A new view of the ionosphere of Uranus: paving the way for a benchmark for exoplanet atmospheres. Start Date: 01/10/2025