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Image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot from Voyager 1

Image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, obtained during the fly-by of Jupiter by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1979.

Credit: NASA/JPL

Prof. Peter Read

Emeritus/researcher

Research theme

  • Climate physics
  • Exoplanets and planetary physics

Sub department

  • Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics

Research groups

  • Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
  • Planetary Climate Dynamics
Peter.Read@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 (2)72082
Atmospheric Physics Clarendon Laboratory, room 210
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I am an Emeritus Professor and part-time researcher in the Department of Physics, and Emeritus Fellow and former Tutor in Physics at Trinity College, University of Oxford, UK. Although semi-retired, in the Department I lead the Geophysical and Planetary Fluid Dynamics group, in which we investigate the fundamental dynamics underpinning the circulations of planetary atmospheres and oceans. This entails a combination of the analysis of spacecraft observations of (mostly Solar System) planetary atmospheres, numerical circulation modelling and laboratory experiments on rotating, stratified flows.

At the moment I am working on investigating the turbulent exchange of energy within the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn (using data from the Cassini mission) and dynamical processes in turbulent convective flows in laboratory experiments carried out in Oxford and Turlab at the Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy (http://www.turlab.ph.unito.it/#).

Until April 2019 I was also the Joint Chair of the Oxford-Met Office Academic Partnership, which was launched formally in October 2013. In this role I worked with various colleagues across the whole of the University to promote stronger links and collaboration between Oxford researchers and the Met Office and its other academic partners. In practice, this is mainly focused on various aspects of climate science and its applications. The current Joint Chair is Tim Woollings - see http://www.climate.ox.ac.uk/oxford-climate-research/met-office-academic-...(link is external) for more details.

Research interests

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Planetary atmospheres

Selected publications

Energy Exchanges in Saturn's Polar Regions From Cassini Observations: Eddy-Zonal Flow Interactions

JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS 127:5 (2022) ARTN e2021JE006973
Peter L Read, Arrate Antunano, Simon Cabanes, Greg Colyer, Teresa del Rio Gaztelurrutia, Agustin Sanchez-Lavega

Assimilation of both column‐ and layer‐integrated dust opacity observations in the Martian atmosphere

Earth and Space Science Wiley 8:12 (2021) e2021EA001869
Tao Ruan, Rmb Young, Sr Lewis, L Montabone, A Valeanu, Pl Read

Baroclinic and barotropic instabilities in planetary atmospheres: energetics, equilibration and adjustment

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics Copernicus Publications 27:1 (2020) 147-173
Peter Read, Daniel Kennedy, Neil Lewis, Helene Scolan, Fachreddin Tabataba-Vakili, Yixiong Wang, Susie Wright, Roland Young

Simulating Jupiter's weather layer. Part II: Passive ammonia and water cycles

Icarus Elsevier 326 (2018) 253-268
Roland Young, Peter Read, Yixiong Wang
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