Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Anastasia Romanou

(Research AST, Oceanographic Studies)

Anastasia Romanou's Contact Card & Information.
Email: anastasia.romanou@nasa.gov
Phone: 212.678.5520
Org Code: 611
Address:
NASA/GISS
Mail Code 611
New York, NY 10025
Employer:
NASA

Research Interests


Ocean circulation

Earth Science: Theory & Modeling

Meridional Overturning Circulation, its variability, and stability and tipping points


Earth system response to changing Emissions

Earth Science: Theory & Modeling

Ocean heat and carbon uptake, TCRE, climate change reversibility


Air-sea interactions and variability; Extreme events

Earth Science: Air-Sea Interaction

gas-exchanges through the air-sea interface, extreme variability in the Earth System


Modeling

ocean and coupled ocean-atmosphere
General Circulation Models
Earth System Models
 


Planetary modeling

Adapting Earth system models to other worlds, plants of our solar system or exoplanets.

Education


Ph.D., Physical Oceanography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 1999
M. Sc., Oceanography, University of Athens, Greece, 1992
B. A. Physics, University of Athens, Greece, 1989
 

Positions/Employment


NASA Research Physical Scientist, 611

NASA - Goddard Institute for Space Studies

February 2018 - Present


Adjunct Associate Professor

Dept. of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia Univ., and NASA GISS - New York

2018 - Present


Research Scientist

Dept. of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia Univ., and NASA GISS - New York

2009 - 2018


Research Scientist

Academy of Athens - Greece

2006 - 2009


Associate Research Scientist

Dept. of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia Univ., and NASA GISS - New York

2003 - 2007


Postdoctoral Associate

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York Univ. - New York

2001 - 2003


Postdoctoral Associate

Univ. Miami, Florida and Los Alamos National Laboratory - New Mexico

1999 - 2001


Research Scientist

Florida State University - Florida

1992 - 1999

Current Projects


Subpolar North Atlantic and Arctic ocean and sea ice stability and responses under climate change.

Climate

in collaboration with University of Washington and NOAA-PMEL


Transient climate response to emissions and climate change reversibility

Climate

in collaboration with TCRE/ZEC working group


Machine learning and scenario emulators for climate projections

Climate


Ocean heat and carbon uptake the ocean and climate feedbacks

(in collaboration with John Marshall, MIT)


Tipping Points in the Climate System

Theory & Modeling

In collaboration with TIPMIP


Sea Level Change projects and impacts


Exoplanet research

Professional Societies


American Geophysical Union

member

2004 - Present


European Geophysical Union

1999 - Present

Professional Service


  • US CLIVAR Phenomena, Observations and Synthesis panel (member)
  • NASA Earth Science Advisory Committee (2018-2024)
  • U.S. Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) Science Team (November 2015-2020)
  • Science Definition Team of EXPORTS (EXport Processes in the Ocean from Remote Sensing) NASA campaign (2015-2017)
  • Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Advanced Science Plan for the next decade 2017-2027 (coordinator)
  • Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry-NASA Pre-decadal Survey working group and report, July 2015 (coordinator)
  • NASA-GISS representative: FAFMIP, OCMIP and OMIP projects towards IPCC-AR6
  • Pre-Decadal Survey for Carbon-Climate Feedbacks, Norman, Oklahoma, March 2015
  • IPCC-AR5, 2013 (contributing author)

Selected Publications


Refereed

2015. "The ocean's role in the transient response of climate to abrupt greenhouse gas forcing." Clim. Dyn. 44 (7-8): 2287-2299 [doi:10.1007/s00382-014-2308-0] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "Ocean heat and carbon uptake in transient climate change: Identifying model uncertainty." US CLIVAR Variations 13 (2): 8-11 [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "Future climate change under RCP emission scenarios with GISS ModelE2." J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst. 7 (1): 244-267 [doi:10.1002/2014MS000403] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "Mechanisms of microbial carbon sequestration in the ocean — Future research directions." Biogeosciences 11 5285-5306 [doi:10.5194/bg-11-5285-2014] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "CMIP5 historical simulations (1850-2012) with GISS ModelE2." J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst. 6 (2): 441-477 [10.1002/2013MS000266] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "Configuration and assessment of the GISS ModelE2 contributions to the CMIP5 archive." J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst. 6 (1): 141-184 [10.1002/2013MS000265] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "Natural ocean carbon cycle sensitivity to parameterizations of the recycling in a climate model." Biogeosciences 11 (4): 1137-1154 [10.5194/bg-11-1137-2014] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "Natural air-sea flux of CO2 in simulations of the NASA-GISS climate model: Sensitivity to the physical ocean model formulation." Ocean Modelling 66 26-44 [10.1016/j.ocemod.2013.01.008] [Journal Article/Letter]

2012. "Atmospheric forcing of the Eastern Mediterranean Transient by midlatitude cyclones." Geophysical Research Letters 39 (3): L03703 [10.1029/2011GL050298] [Journal Article/Letter]

2010. "Evaporation–Precipitation Variability over the Mediterranean and the Black Seas from Satellite and Reanalysis Estimates." J. Climate 23 (19): 5268-5287 [10.1175/2010JCLI3525.1] [Journal Article/Letter]