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Dr. Anastasia Romanou

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
E-mail: anastasia.romanou@nasa.gov

Research Bio/Interests

Oceans, global carbon cycle, and climate. Large-scale circulation of the oceans, meridional overturning circulation and its stability, tipping points. Earth system modeling with emphasis on the global carbon cycle. Ocean heat and carbon uptake. Reversibility of climate change.

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Recent Publications

Wood, R.A., J.A. Baker, G. Beaugrand, J. Boutin, A. Conversi, R.V. Donner, E. Goberville, H. Hayashida, W. Koeve, K. Kvale, A. Landolfi, W. Maslowski, A. Oschlies, A. Romanou, C.J. Somes, T.F. Stocker, and D. Swingedouw, 2025: Opportunities for Earth observation to inform risk management for ocean tipping points. Surv. Geophys., 46, no. 2, 443-502, doi:10.1007/s10712-024-09859-3.

Brovkin, V., B.M. Sanderson, N.G. Brizuela, T. Hajima, T. Ilyina, C.D. Jones, C. Koven, D. Lawrence, P. Lawrence, H. Li, S. Liddcoat, A. Romanou, R. Séférian, L.T. Sentman, A.L.S. Swann, J. Tjiputra, T. Ziehn, and A.J. Winkler, 2025: On a simplified solution of climate-carbon dynamics in idealized flat10MIP simulations. Earth Syst. Dynam., 16, no. 6, 2021-2034, doi:10.5194/esd-16-2021-2025.

Lerner, P., A. Romanou, M. Way, and C. Colose, 2025: Obliquity dependence of ocean productivity and atmospheric CO2 on Earth-like worlds. Astrophys. J., 979, no. 2, 234, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ada277.

Leung, L.R., I.R. Simpson, S. Gille, D. Amrhein, M. Messié, J. Dias, J. Wenegrat, D. Amaya, J. Furtado, K. Chen, L. Dove, G. Forget, M.C. Hell, V. Hormann, I. Marinov, A. Romanou, J. Steinberg, L. Talley, W. Weijer, A. Barthel, A. Gonzalez, K. Lamb, E. Maroon, M. Webster, J. Albers, W. Anderson, M. Arcodia, S. Kumar, S. Larson, D. Li, M. Molina, K. Malloy, C.A. Shields, and B. Xiang, 2025: 2025 U.S. CLIVAR Summit Report. US CLIVAR, doi:10.5065/g1bj-hk45.

Phillips, M., A.C. Ruane, D. Rind, M. De Mel, N. Bood, A. Romanou, J.I. Benhallam, and C. Rosenzweig, 2025: Probabilistic and threshold-based marine heat indicators show different signatures of near-perpetual heat emergence around Mesoamerican Reef under climate change. J. Appl. Meteorol. Climatol., 64, no. 7, 857-878, doi:10.1175/JAMC-D-24-0054.1.

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