Newcastle University

Current Roles

• Senior Lecturer in Geography (Climate Modelling)
  
• Research Scientist, ClimatePrediction.net Project
  
• AOPP Visiting Fellow, Dept of Physics, University of Oxford

Education

• Ph.D, Physics; University of Toronto, Canada
  
• M.Sci, Geophysics; University of Tokyo, Japan
  
• B.Eng, Applied Physics; Waseda University, Japan

Past Positions

• 2006-2010: Research Scientist & Member of Congregation, Dept of Physics, University of Oxford
  
• 2000-2005: Post-doctoral Research Associate, Dept of Physics, University of Oxford

Membership

• Fellow of Royal Meteorological Society (FRMetS)
  
• American Geophysical Union
• European Geosciences Union
• The Oceanographic Society of Japan
  
• Japan Linux Association
  

Climate Change

• Ensemble climate modelling for the past 1200 years and the the future

• Development of physics-based numerical models, eg. Enhancement of HadCM3 family of GCM
• Palaeoclimate model-data "fusion"

 Geophysical and Planetary Fluid Dynamics

• Jupiter & Saturn: Dynamics of the atmospheric features (eg. Stripes, Great Red Spot, Polar Hexagon)
• Earth's atmosphere: Stability and meandering of the jet stream; Development of synoptic and subsynoptic-scale cyclones and anti-cyclones along atmospheric jets
  
• Oceans: Deep sea water formation; Origin of banded jets; Seiche in bays (and lakes)
• Laboratory technique: Visualisation of three-dimentional flow field
• Model Development: Quasi-geostrophyic model for rotating annulus (QUAGMIRE)
  

Research Projects

• 2005-present: ClimatePrediction.net distributed-computing climate modelling project
• 2006-2010: European climate of the last millennium (MILLENNIUM), European Comission
• 2000-2005: GCM Modelling of the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn (UK PPARC Rolling Grant), supporting Cassini/CIRS team 
  

Grant proposals: NERC, UK;

GEO2107 Climate and Environmental Change: Present, Future and Past (Lecturer Semester 1) <staff page>

CEG2715 Advanced Study Skills (Basic Statistics lectures & practicals) <staff page>

GEO2044 GEO2044 Advanced Study Skills (Academic Tutor) <staff page>

GEO3074 Physical Geography Dissertation (Module Leader Semester 1; Mentor) <staff page>

GEO3099 Geography Dissertation (Dissertation Mentor) <staff page>

GEO3124 Introduction to Environmental Modelling

Personal Tutor (30 tutees for 2011-2012)

• Rowlands DJ, Frame DJ, Ackerley D, Aina T, Booth BBB, Christensen C, Collins M, Faull N, Forest CE, Grandey BS, Gryspeerdt E, Highwood EJ, Ingram WJ, Knight S, Lopez A, Massey N, McNamara F, Meinshausen N, Piani C, Rosier SM, Sanderson BM, Smith LA, Stone DA, Thurston M, Yamazaki K, Yamazaki YH, Allen MR. Broad range of 2050 warming from an observationally constrained large climate model ensemble. Nature Geoscience 2012, (epub ahead of print).
• Hanappe P, Beurivé A, Laguzet F, Steels L, Bellouin N, Boucher O, Yamazaki YH, Aina T, Allen M. FAMOUS, faster: using parallel computing techniques to accelerate the FAMOUS/HadCM3 climate model with a focus on the radiative transfer algorithm. Geoscientific Model Development 2011, 4(3), 835-844.
• Aguiar ACB, Read PL, Wordsworth RD, Salter T, Yamazaki YH. A laboratory model of Saturn's North Polar Hexagon. Icarus 2010, 206(2), 755-763.
• Zuchowski LC, Read PL, Yamazaki YH, Renno NO. A heat engine based moist convection parametrization for Jupiter. Planetary and Space Science 2009, 57(13), 1525-1537.
• Zuchowski LC, Yamazaki YH, Read PL. Modeling Jupiter's cloud bands and decks: 1 Jet scale meridional circulations on Jupiter. Icarus 2009, 200(2), 548-562.
• Zuchowski LC, Yamazaki YH, Read PL. Modeling Jupiter's cloud bands and decks: 2 Distibution and motion of condensates. Icarus 2009, 200(2), 563-573.
• Frame DJ, Aina T, Christensen CM, Faull NE, Knight SHE, Piani C, Rosier SM, Yamazaki K, Yamazaki Y, Allen M. The climateprediction.net BBC climate change experiment: design of the coupled model ensemble. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 2009, 367(1890), 855-870.
• Williams PD, Haine TWN, Read PL, Lewis SR, Yamazaki YH. QUAGMIRE v1.3: a quasi-geostrophic model for investigating rotating fluids experiments. Geoscientific Model Development 2009, 2, 13-32.
• Wordsworth RD, Read PL, Yamazaki YH. Turbulence, waves and jets in a differentially heated rotating annulus experiment. Physics of Fluids 2008, 20, 126602.
• Read PL, Yamazaki YH, Lewis SR, Williams PD, Wordsworth R, Miki-Yamazaki K, Sommeria J, Didelle H, Fincham A. Dynamics of convectively driven banded jets in the laboratory. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 2007, 64(11), 4031-4052.
• Yamazaki YH, Read PL. Two scenarios on the driving mechanism of the Jovian equatorial jet with secondary hydrodynamic instabilities. Advances in Space Research 2006, 38(11), 2639-2644.
• Read PL, Gierasch PJ, Conrath BJ, Simon-Miller A, Fouchet T, Yamazaki YH. Mapping potential-vorticity dynamics on Jupiter. I: Zonal-mean circulation from Cassini and Voyager 1 data. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 2006, 132(618), 1577-1603.
• Galperin B, Sukoriansky S, Dikovskaya N, Read PL, Yamazaki YH, Wordsworth R. Anisotropic turbulence and zonal jets in rotating flows with a β-effect. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 2006, 13, 83-98.
• Read PL, Gierasch PJ, Conrath BJ, Yamazaki YH. 3D balanced winds and dynamics in Jupiter's atmosphere from combined imaging and infrared observations. Advances in Space Research 2005, 36(11), 2187-2193.
• Yamazaki YH, Read PL, Skeet DR. Hadley circulations and Kelvin wave-driven equatorial jets in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. Planetary and Space Science 2005, 53(5), 508-525.
• Yamazaki YH, Skeet DR, Read PL. A new general circulation model of Jupiter's atmosphere based on the UKMO Unified Model: three-dimensional evolution of isolated vortices and zonal jets in mid-latitudes. Planetary and Space Science 2004, 52(5-6), 423-445.
• Read PL, Yamazaki YH, Lewis SR, Williams PD, Miki-Yamazaki K, Sommeria J, Didelle H, Fincham A. Jupiter's and Saturn's convectively driven banded jets in the laboratory. Geophysical Research Letters 2004, 31, L22701.
• Yamazaki YH, Peltier WR. The existence of sybsynoptic-scale baroclinic instability and the nonlinear evolution of shallow disturbances. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 2001, 58(7), 657-683.
• Yamazaki YH, Peltier WR. Baroclinic instability in an Euler equations-based column model: The coexistence of a deep synoptic-scale and shallow sybsynoptic-scale modes. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 2001, 58(7), 780-792.
• Tada T, Tsuji Y, Tsukamoto M, Ueno Y, Kawashima M, Egawa T, Yamazaki Y. Comparison of observed and theoretically calculated seiches of Heda Bay, Japan. Pure and Applied Geophysics 1992, 138(2), 309-322.
• Tada T, Tsukamoto M, Ueno Y, Kawashima M, Tsuji Y, Egawa T, Yamazaki Y. Observation of Seiches in Heda Bay, Shizuoka Prefecture (in Japanese with English abstract). Bulletin of the Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo 1991, 66, 455-474.
• Zuchowski LC, Yamazaki YH, Read PL. GCM representation of turbulence on Jupiter. In: Advances in Turbulence XI: Proceedings of the 11th EUROMECH European Turbulance Conference. 2007, Porto, Portugal: Springer.
• Rogberg P, Read PL, Lewis SR, Montabone L, Yamazaki YH. Climatology on Mars: interannual variability of mean fields. In: Second workshop on Mars atmosphere modelling and observations. 2006, Granada, Spain.