Japheth Yates

    Research Fellow

     

    Main Research Fields

    I’m interested in comparative planetology. My main areas of focus concern the coupling between planetary magnetospheres, their upper atmospheres and the solar wind, as well as magnetohydrodynamic waves present in these magnetospheres. I have investigated these processes and phenomena at Jupiter and Saturn. It is useful to compare conditions and processes at these planets to those at Earth in order to fully understand the underlying physics.

    Keywords

    Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere coupling
    Gas giant planets
    Magnetohydrodynamics
    Waves
    Magnetospheric physics
    Plasma physics
    Exoplanets
    Atmospheric circulation models

    Ongoing collaborations

    N. Achilleos, P. Guio, University College London, UK
    L. Ray, Lancaster University, UK
    M. Dougherty, A. Masters, D. Southwood, Imperial College London, UK
    A. Sulaiman, University of Iowa, USA
    M. Kivelson, University of California Los Angeles, USA
    S. Cowley, G. Provan, University of Leicester, UK

    CASSINI - Magnetometer (PI: M. Dougherty)

    Project/mission at ESA

    JUICE
    CASSINI