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
Anastasia Romanou
(Research AST, Oceanographic Studies)
| Email: | anastasia.romanou@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 212.678.5520 |
| Org Code: | 611 |
| Address: |
NASA/GISS Mail Code 611 New York, NY 10025 |
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Research Interests
Ocean circulation
Earth Science: Theory & ModelingMeridional Overturning Circulation, its variability, and stability and tipping points
Earth system response to changing Emissions
Earth Science: Theory & ModelingOcean heat and carbon uptake, TCRE, climate change reversibility
Air-sea interactions and variability; Extreme events
Earth Science: Air-Sea Interactiongas-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
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]