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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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  • Publications

Non-axisymmetric flows in a differential-disk rotating system

Journal of Fluid Mechanics Cambridge University Press (CUP) 775 (2015) 349-386

Authors:

Tony Vo, Luca Montabone, Peter L Read, Gregory J Sheard
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An experimental investigation into topographic resonance in a baroclinic rotating annulus

Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics Taylor & Francis 109:4 (2015) 391-421

Authors:

SD Marshall, PL Read
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An assessment of the impact of local processes on dust lifting in martian climate models

Icarus Elsevier 252 (2015) 212-227

Authors:

David P Mulholland, Aymeric Spiga, Constantino Listowski, Peter L Read
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The solsticial pause on Mars: 2 modelling and investigation of causes

Icarus 264 (2015) 465-477

Authors:

DP Mulholland, SR Lewis, PL Read, JB Madeleine, F Forget

Abstract:

The martian solsticial pause, presented in a companion paper (. Lewis et al., 2016), was investigated further through a series of model runs using the UK version of the LMD/UK Mars Global Climate Model. It was found that the pause could not be adequately reproduced if radiatively active water ice clouds were omitted from the model. When clouds were used, along with a realistic time-dependent dust opacity distribution, a substantial minimum in near-surface transient eddy activity formed around solstice in both hemispheres. The net effect of the clouds in the model is, by altering the thermal structure of the atmosphere, to decrease the vertical shear of the westerly jet near the surface around solstice, and thus reduce baroclinic growth rates. A similar effect was seen under conditions of large dust loading, implying that northern midlatitude eddy activity will tend to become suppressed after a period of intense flushing storm formation around the northern cap edge. Suppression of baroclinic eddy generation by the barotropic component of the flow and via diabatic eddy dissipation were also investigated as possible mechanisms leading to the formation of the solsticial pause but were found not to make major contributions. Zonal variations in topography were found to be important, as their presence results in weakened transient eddies around winter solstice in both hemispheres, through modification of the near-surface flow. The zonal topographic asymmetry appears to be the primary reason for the weakness of eddy activity in the southern hemisphere relative to the northern hemisphere, and the ultimate cause of the solsticial pause in both hemispheres. The meridional topographic gradient was found to exert a much weaker influence on near-surface transient eddies.
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The EChO science case

(2015)

Authors:

Giovanna Tinetti, Pierre Drossart, Paul Eccleston, Paul Hartogh, Kate Isaak, Martin Linder, Christophe Lovis, Giusi Micela, Marc Ollivier, Ludovic Puig, Ignasi Ribas, Ignas Snellen, Bruce Swinyard France Allard, Joanna Barstow, James Cho, Athena Coustenis, Charles Cockell, Alexandre Correia, Leen Decin, Remco de Kok, Pieter Deroo, Therese Encrenaz, Francois Forget, Alistair Glasse, Caitlin Griffith, Tristan Guillot, Tommi Koskinen, Helmut Lammer, Jeremy Leconte, Pierre Maxted, Ingo Mueller-Wodarg, Richard Nelson, Chris North, Enric Pallé, Isabella Pagano, Guseppe Piccioni, David Pinfield, Franck Selsis, Alessandro Sozzetti, Lars Stixrude, Jonathan Tennyson, Diego Turrini, Mariarosa Zapatero-Osorio Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, Denis Grodent, Manuel Guedel, David Luz, Hans Ulrik Nørgaard-Nielsen, Tom Ray, Hans Rickman, Avri Selig, Mark Swain Marek Banaszkiewicz, Mike Barlow, Neil Bowles, Graziella Branduardi-Raymont, Vincent Coudé du Foresto, Jean-Claude Gerard, Laurent Gizon, Allan Hornstrup, Christopher Jarchow, Franz Kerschbaum, Géza Kovacs, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Tanya Lim, Mercedes Lopez-Morales, Giuseppe Malaguti, Emanuele Pace, Enzo Pascale, Bart Vandenbussche, Gillian Wright, Gonzalo Ramos Zapata Alberto Adriani, Ruymán Azzollini, Ana Balado, Ian Bryson, Raymond Burston, Josep Colomé, Vincent Coudé du Foresto, Martin Crook, Anna Di Giorgio, Matt Griffin, Ruud Hoogeveen, Roland Ottensamer, Ranah Irshad, Kevin Middleton, Gianluca Morgante, Frederic Pinsard, Mirek Rataj, Jean-Michel Reess, Giorgio Savini, Jan-Rutger Schrader, Richard Stamper, Berend Winter L Abe, M Abreu, N Achilleos, P Ade, V Adybekian, L Affer, C Agnor, M Agundez, C Alard, J Alcala, C Allende Prieto, FJ Alonso Floriano, F Altieri, CA Alvarez Iglesias, P Amado, A Andersen, A Aylward, C Baffa, G Bakos, P Ballerini, M Banaszkiewicz, RJ Barber, D Barrado, EJ Barton, V Batista, G Bellucci, JA Belmonte Avilés, D Berry, B Bézard, D Biondi, M Błęcka, I Boisse, B Bonfond, P Bordé, P Börner, H Bouy, L Brown, L Buchhave, J Budaj, A Bulgarelli, M Burleigh, A Cabral, MT Capria, A Cassan, C Cavarroc, C Cecchi-Pestellini, R Cerulli, J Chadney, S Chamberlain, S Charnoz, N Christian Jessen, A Ciaravella, A Claret, R Claudi, A Coates, R Cole, A Collura, D Cordier, E Covino, C Danielski, M Damasso, HJ Deeg, E Delgado-Mena, C Del Vecchio, O Demangeon, A De Sio, J De Wit, M Dobrijévic, P Doel, C Dominic, E Dorfi, S Eales, C Eiroa, M Espinoza Contreras, M Esposito, V Eymet, N Fabrizio, M Fernández, B Femenía Castella, P Figueira, G Filacchione, L Fletcher, M Focardi, S Fossey, P Fouqué, J Frith, M Galand, L Gambicorti, P Gaulme, RJ García López, A Garcia-Piquer, W Gear, J-C Gerard, L Gesa, E Giani, F Gianotti, M Gillon, E Giro, M Giuranna, H Gomez, I Gomez-Leal, J Gonzalez Hernandez, B González Merino, R Graczyk, D Grassi, J Guardia, P Guio, J Gustin, P Hargrave, J Haigh, E Hébrard, U Heiter, RL Heredero, E Herrero, F Hersant, D Heyrovsky, M Hollis, B Hubert, R Hueso, G Israelian, N Iro, P Irwin, S Jacquemoud, G Jones, H Jones, K Justtanont, T Kehoe, F Kerschbaum, E Kerins, P Kervella, D Kipping, T Koskinen, N Krupp, O Lahav, B Laken, N Lanza, E Lellouch, G Leto, J Licandro Goldaracena, C Lithgow-Bertelloni, SJ Liu, U Lo Cicero, N Lodieu, P Lognonné, M Lopez-Puertas, MA Lopez-Valverde, I Lundgaard Rasmussen, A Luntzer, P Machado, C MacTavish, A Maggio, J-P Maillard, W Magnes, J Maldonado, U Mall, J-B Marquette, P Mauskopf, F Massi, A-S Maurin, A Medvedev, C Michaut, P Miles-Paez, M Montalto, P Montañés Rodríguez, M Monteiro, D Montes, H Morais, JC Morales, M Morales-Calderón, G Morello, A Moro Martín, J Moses, A Moya Bedon, F Murgas Alcaino, E Oliva, G Orton, F Palla, M Pancrazzi, E Pantin, V Parmentier, H Parviainen, KY Peña Ramírez, J Peralta, S Perez-Hoyos, R Petrov, S Pezzuto, R Pietrzak, E Pilat-Lohinger, N Piskunov, R Prinja, L Prisinzano, I Polichtchouk, E Poretti, A Radioti, AA Ramos, T Rank-Lüftinger, P Read, K Readorn, R Rebolo López, J Rebordão, M Rengel, L Rezac, M Rocchetto, F Rodler, VJ Sánchez Béjar, A Sanchez Lavega, E Sanromá, N Santos, J Sanz Forcada, G Scandariato, F-X Schmider, A Scholz, S Scuderi, J Sethenadh, S Shore, A Showman, B Sicardy, P Sitek, A Smith, L Soret, S Sousa, A Stiepen, M Stolarski, G Strazzulla, HM Tabernero, P Tanga, M Tecsa, J Temple, L Terenzi, M Tessenyi, L Testi, S Thompson, H Thrastarson, BW Tingley, M Trifoglio, J Martín Torres, A Tozzi, D Turrini, R Varley, F Vakili, M de Val-Borro, ML Valdivieso, O Venot, E Villaver, S Vinatier, S Viti, I Waldmann, D Waltham, D Ward-Thompson, R Waters, C Watkins, D Watson, P Wawer, A Wawrzaszk, G White, T Widemann, W Winek, T Wiśniowski, R Yelle, Y Yung, SN Yurchenko
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