Newcastle University

Dr Hiro Yamazaki is a climate modeller, specialising in climate changes over the last 1200 years, present day and future. He was the modeller of an EU-funded project "European Climate Change of the Last Millennium" (MILLENNIUM), working with 200 palaeoclimate scientists across and beyond Europe. He also works on dynamics of the atmospheres and oceans of the Earth, Jupiter and other planets, using both numerical and laboratory models of rotating and stratified fluids. He also devotes his time on technical and distributed computing over the internet, working with up to ~80,000 volunteers who have been running his and other climate models using ClimatePrediction.net platform. His long-term interests in optics now includes atmospheric phenomena, such as rainbow and green flash, and recently started to help decipher Medieval documents.

Current Roles

• 2011.01-: Senior Lecturer in Geography (Climate Modelling)
• 2013.10-: Meteorology Ambassador (Educational outreach for Royal Met Soc)
  
• 2013.08-: Chair of Board of Examiners in Geography (F800, FH82, L701)
  
• 2013.01-: Steering board member of marineNewcastle (Environmental Systems)
  
• 2012.09-: Geography subject advisor for Combined Honours programme
  
• 2011.04-: AOPP Visiting Fellow, Dept of Physics, University of Oxford
• 2006.01-: Research Scientist, ClimatePrediction.net Project

Education

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

Past Positions

• 2006-2010: Research Scientist & Member of Congregation, Dept of Physics, University of Oxford (Climate Dynamics)
  
• 2000-2005: Post-doctoral Research Associate, Dept of Physics, University of Oxford (Geophysical and Planetary Fluid Dynamics)
• 1992-2000: Research and Teaching Assistant, Dept of Physics, University of Toronto.
• 1991-1992: Teaching Assistant, Dept of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo.
  

Membership

• Fellow of Royal Meteorological Society (FRMetS)
  
• Fellow of Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS)
• American Geophysical Union
• European Geosciences Union
• International Astronomical Union
• The Oceanographic Society of Japan
  
• Meteorological Society of Japan
• British Geophysical Association
• Japan Linux Association (former board member)
  

Climate Change

• Palaeoclimate prediction and model-data "fusion"
  
• Ensemble climate modelling for the past 1200 years, present day, and future
• Development of physics-based numerical models, eg. Enhancement of HadCM3 family of GCM
• Climate impacts on oceanic circulation (eg. CO₂ impact on Atlantic Ocean Circulation)

 Geophysical and Planetary Fluid Dynamics

• Earth's atmosphere: Stability and meandering of the jet stream; Development of synoptic and sub-synoptic scale cyclones and anti-cyclones
  
• Jupiter & Saturn: Dynamics of the atmospheric features (eg. Stripes, Great Red Spot, Polar Hexagon)
• Oceans and lakes: Deep sea water formation; Origin of banded jets; Seiche in bays and lakes
• Laboratory technique: Rotating tank experiments, Visualisation of 3-D flow fields
• Computer model Development: Jovian OPUS GCM (Oxford Planetary Unified-model System), Quasi-geostrophic model for rotating annulus (QUAGMIRE)
  

Research Project

• 2005-present: ClimatePrediction.net distributed-computing climate modelling project
• 2006-2010: European climate of the last millennium (MILLENNIUM), European Commission
• 2000-2005: GCM Modelling of the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn (UK PPARC Rolling Grant), supporting  NASA & ESA's Cassini Spacecraft CIRS instrument team
  

• Grant proposals: NERC, UK;
• Journals: J. Atmos. Sci.; Icarus; Astron. Astrophys. (A&A); Climate of the Past; J. Met. Soc. Japan; Sci. Online Lett. Atmos. (SOLA); Remote Sensing.

Leading Role in:

GEO3124 Introduction to Environmental Modelling (Module Leader, 2012-2013)

GEO2107 Climate and Environmental Change: Present, Future and Past (Semester 1 Module Leader, 2011-)

Contribution:

GEO3074 Physical Geography Dissertation (Semester 1 Module Leader, 2011; Dissertation Mentor 2011-)

GEO3099 Geography Dissertation (Dissertation Mentor)

CEG2715 Advanced Study Skills (Basic Statistics lectures & practicals for 2011-2013)

GEO2111 Doing Geographic Research (Lecture on "Systems and Models", 2012)

GEO2044 Advanced Study Skills (Academic Tutor, 2011-2012)

GEO1012 Introduction to Earth Sciences (Atmosphere, Oceans & Wild Weather, 2013) 

GEO1020 Introduction to Physical Geography (Atmosphere, Oceans, Climate, Autumn 2013-)

Personal Tutoring:

30 tutees for 2011-2012; 41 tutees for 2012-2013

• Yamazaki K, Rowlands DJ, Aina T, Blaker AT, Bowery A, Massey N, Miller J, Rye C, Tett SFB, Williamson D, Yamazaki YH, Allen MR. Obtaining diverse behaviors in a climate model without the use of flux adjustments. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 2013, 118(7), 2781-2793.
• McCarroll D, Loader NJ, Jalkanen R, Gagen MH, Grudd H, Gunnarson BE, Kirchhefer AJ, Friedrich M, Linderholm HW, Lindholm M, Boettger T, Los SO, Remmele S, Kononov YM, Yamazaki YH, Young GHF, Zorita E. A 1200-year multi-proxy record of tree growth and summer temperature at the northern pine forest limit of Europe. Holocene 2013, 23(4), 471-484.
• 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, 5, 256-260.
• 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.