Dr Anna Katavouta
Biography
Please visit my personal-research webpage: https://katavouta.github.io/
I am an ocean-climate scientist based at the National Oceanography Centre. My research interests and experience lie in combining numerical models, observations and theory to study ocean processes and their role within the Earth system on different spatial scales, regional to global, and time scales, days to millennia.
- 2019 - present: National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, UK.
- 2020 - 2023: Secondment (part-time), University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
- 2016 - 2019: Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
- 2010 - 2016: PhD, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada (advisor: Prof. Keith Thompson)
- 2008 - 2010: MSc, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada (advisor: Prof. Paul G. Myers)
- 2003 - 2008: Ptychio (Bachelor) in Physics, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
Research interests include:
- shelf seas dynamics
- impact of climate change in shelf seas
- role of the ocean in the climate response to carbon emissions
- carbon cycle and climate feedbacks
- numerical modelling: shelf seas, open ocean and climate
Publications
Williams, Richard G.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3180-7558; Brown, Peter J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1152-1114; Takano, Yohei
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7984-8810; Forget, Gaël
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4234-056X; Jones, Dani
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8701-4506; Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; McDonagh, Elaine
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8813-4585; Roussenov, Vassil M..
2026
The biogeochemical transport by the Gulf Stream.
Communications Earth & Environment, 7, 149.
11, pp.
10.1038/s43247-025-03118-y
2026
Article
Eidt, Renata Tatsch
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4129-1636; Verri, Giorgia
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7561-618X; Santos da Costa, Vladimir
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7704-1861; Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Navarra, Antonio.
2026
Sensitivity of dynamical downscaling in the Northern Adriatic Sea.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 131 (1).
10.1029/2025JC022921
2026
Article
Tarling, Geraint A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3753-5899; Abrahamsen, E. Povl
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5924-5350; Aksenov, Yevgeny
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6132-3434; Anderson, Madeline P.B.C.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5967-311X; Arrowsmith, Carol; Baker, Chelsey A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0840-2333; Barry, Chris
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1844-848X; Belcher, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9583-5910; Benavides, Mar; Bischof, Milo J.D.; Boland, Emma J.D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2430-7763; Bowes, Mike
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0673-1934; Brearley, J. Alexander
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3700-8017; Brown, Peter J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1152-1114; Burson, Amanda
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0729-3793; Buzzard, Sammie C.; Callaghan, Nathan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0273-6161; Coët, Arthur; Cook, Kathryn B.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8590-3011; Coombs, Sarah; Evans, Chris D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7052-354X; Fielding, Sophie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3152-4742; Ford, Elaina; Fournier, Isabelle
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0065-2338; Freer, Jennifer J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3947-9261; Garcia-Martin, E. Elena
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4807-3287; Ghosh, V.R. Dipin; Giering, Sarah L.C.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3090-1876; Grant, Alanna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7203-3260; Griffiths, Huw J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1764-223X; Hamilton, Ruta; Hendry, Katherine R.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0790-5895; Hill, Simeon L.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1441-8769; Hubot, Nathan; Hunter, Aidan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2621-9978; Johnston, Nadine M.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2211-1492; Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Kitson, Ezra
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9168-7001; Leng, Melanie J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1115-5166; Lewis, Isabel H.; Linse, Katrin
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3477-3047; Lofts, Stephen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3627-851X; Manno, Clara
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3337-6173; Martin, Adrian P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1202-8612; Marzocchi, Alice
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Mawji, Edward; Mayor, Daniel J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1295-0041; McKenzie, Rebecca M.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9928-8780; Meijers, Andrew J.S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3876-7736; Meredith, Michael P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7342-7756; Munday, David R.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1920-708X; Pereira, M. Glória
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3740-0019; O'Brien, Alexandra V.E.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8742-0010; Olszewska, Justyna P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4910-2206; Painter, Stuart C.; Palmieri, Julien
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0226-5243; Patel, Shailee; Pickard, Amy E.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1069-3720; Richt, Jessica J.R.; Rynders, Stefanie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1334-4577; Sanders, Rachael N.C.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1936-8772; Saunders, Ryan A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1157-7222; Shepherd, Andrew; Slater, Thomas; Spears, Bryan M.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0876-0405; Stowasser, Gabriele
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0595-0772; Swiggs, Amy E.; Taylor, Laura R.; ten Hoopen, Petra
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4242-4015; Thorpe, Sally E.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5193-6955; Timms-Wilson, Tracey M.; van Soest, Maud A.J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4656-515X; Venables, Hugh J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6445-8462; Wright, Zoe; Yool, Andrew
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9879-2776; Young, Emma
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7069-6109.
2025
BIOPOLE: biogeochemical processes and
ecosystem functioning in changing polar systems
and their global impacts.
Research Ideas & Outcomes, 11, e163757.
10.3897/rio.11.e163757
2025
Article
Holt, Jason
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3298-8477; Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Hopkins, Joanne; Amoudry, Laurent O.; Appendini, Christian M.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6044-3351; Arneborg, Lars
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0248-8110; Arnold, Alex; Artioli, Yuri; Aucan, Jerome
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9883-0082; Berx, Barbara; Cagigal, Laura; De Dominicis, Michela
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0544-7939; Denamiel, Cléa
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5099-1143; Galli, Giovanni; Graham, Jennifer A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1950-5266; Jacobs, Zoe
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-0699; Jevrejeva, Svetlana
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9490-4665; Kamranzad, Bahareh
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8829-6007; Langlais, Clothilde
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6423-7678; Larsen, Morten Andreas Dahl; Lira-Loarca, Andrea
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2251-6684; Lyddon, Charlotte
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4254-3049; Mathis, Moritz; Melet, Angélique
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3888-8159; Méndez, Fernando; Muis, Sanne; Myers, Paul
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4514-2654; O’Donovan, Mairéad; Olbert, Agnieszka Indiana; Palmer, Matthew D.; Phillips, Lachlan; Polton, Jeff
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Buil, Mercedes Pozo; Robins, Peter; Ruju, Andrea; Schlaefer, Jodie A.; Senatore, Alfonso
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9716-3532; Siedlecki, Samantha; Tinker, Jonathan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3160-7000; Verri, Giorgia
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7561-618X; Vilibić, Ivica
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0753-5775; Wei, Xiaoyan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8407-6958; Pinardi, Nadia
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4765-0775.
2025
Future climate projections in the global coastal ocean.
Progress in Oceanography, 235, 103497.
1, pp.
10.1016/j.pocean.2025.103497
2025
Article
Jardine, J. E.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8949-4785; Holt, J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3298-8477; Wakelin, S. L.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2081-2693; Katavouta, A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Partridge, D..
2025
An asymmetric change in circulation and nitrate transports in the Bay of Bengal.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130 (2).
10.1029/2024JC021670
2025
Article
Rulent, Julia; James, Molly K.; Rameshwaran, Ponnambalam
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8972-953X; Jardine, Jennifer E.; Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Wakelin, Sarah
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2081-2693; Jayathilaka, Ruchira; Arulananthan, Kanapathipillai; Holt, Jason
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3298-8477; Sutton, Mark A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1342-2072; Artioli, Yuri.
2024
Modelling pollutants transport scenarios based on the X-Press Pearl disaster.
Marine Pollution Bulletin, 209 (A), 117129.
17, pp.
10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.117129
2024
Article
Williams, Richard G.; Meijers, Andrew J.S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3876-7736; Roussenov, Vassil M.; Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Ceppi, Paulo; Rosser, Jonathan P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7748-319X; Salvi, Pietro.
2024
Asymmetries in the Southern Ocean contribution to global heat and carbon uptake.
Nature Climate Change, 14.
823-831.
10.1038/s41558-024-02066-3
2024
Article
Williams, Richard G.; Ceppi, Paulo; Roussenov, Vassil; Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Meijers, Andrew J.S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3876-7736.
2023
The role of the Southern Ocean in the global climate response to carbon emissions.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, A, 381 (2249), 20220062.
35, pp.
10.1098/rsta.2022.0062
2023
Article
Polton, Jeff A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Harle, James; Holt, Jason
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3298-8477; Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Partridge, Dale; Jardine, Jenny; Wakelin, Sarah
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2081-2693; Rulent, Julia; Wise, Anthony; Hutchinson, Katherine; Byrne, David; Bruciaferri, Diego; O'Dea, Enda; De Dominicis, Michela
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0544-7939; Mathiot, Pierre; Coward, Andrew
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9111-7700; Yool, Andrew
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9879-2776; Palmieri, Julien
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0226-5243; Lessin, Gennadi; Mayorga-Adame, Gabriela
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8707-9385; Le Guennec, Valerie; Arnold, Alex; Rousset, Clement.
2023
Reproducible and relocatable regional ocean modelling: Fundamentals and practices.
Geoscientific Model Development.
10.5194/gmd-2022-217
2023
Article
Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Polton, Jeff A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Harle, James D.; Holt, Jason T.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3298-8477.
2022
Effect of tides on the Indonesian seas circulation and their role on the volume, heat and salt transports of the Indonesian throughflow.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127 (8).
10.1029/2022JC018524
2022
Article
Wilson, Jamie D.; Andrews, Oliver; Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; De Melo Virissimo, Francisco
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2905-3478; Death, Ros M.; Adloff, Markus; Baker, Chelsey A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0840-2333; Blackledge, Benedict; Goldsworth, Fraser W.; Kennedy-Asser, Alan T.; Liu, Qian; Sieradzan, Katie R.; Vosper, Emily; Ying, Rui.
2022
The biological carbon pump in CMIP6 models: 21st century trends and uncertainties.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (29).
10.1073/pnas.2204369119
2022
Article
Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Williams, Richard G..
2021
Ocean carbon cycle feedbacks in CMIP6 models: contributions from different basins.
Biogeosciences, 18 (10).
3189-3218.
10.5194/bg-18-3189-2021
2021
Article
Williams, Richard G.; Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Roussenov, Vassil.
2021
Regional asymmetries in ocean heat and carbon storage due to dynamic redistribution in climate model projections.
Journal of Climate, 34 (10).
3907-3925.
10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0519.1
2021
Article
Jardine, Jennifer; Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Partridge, Dale; Polton, Jeff
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Holt, Jason
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3298-8477; Wakelin, Sarah
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2081-2693.
2021
Assessing the long-term physical-biogeochemical interactions in the North Indian Ocean using a coupled relocatable model.
In: EGU General Assembly 2021, Online, 19-30 April 2021.
2021
Conference item
Williams, Richard G; Ceppi, Paulo; Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996.
2020
Controls of the transient climate response to emissions by physical feedbacks, heat uptake and carbon cycling.
Environmental Research Letters, 15 (9).
0940c1.
10.1088/1748-9326/ab97c9
2020
Article
Arora, Vivek K.; Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Williams, Richard G.; Jones, Chris D.; Brovkin, Victor; Friedlingstein, Pierre; Schwinger, Jörg; Bopp, Laurent; Boucher, Olivier; Cadule, Patricia; Chamberlain, Matthew A.; Christian, James R.; Delire, Christine; Fisher, Rosie A.; Hajima, Tomohiro; Ilyina, Tatiana; Joetzjer, Emilie; Kawamiya, Michio; Koven, Charles; Krasting, John; Law, Rachel M.; Lawrence, David M.; Lenton, Andrew; Lindsay, Keith; Pongratz, Julia; Raddatz, Thomas; Séférian, Roland; Tachiiri, Kaoru; Tjiputra, Jerry F.; Wiltshire, Andy; Wu, Tongwen; Ziehn, Tilo.
2020
Carbon–concentration and carbon–climate feedbacks in CMIP6 models and their comparison to CMIP5 models.
Biogeosciences, 17.
4173-4222.
10.5194/bg-2019-473
2020
Article
Arora, Vivek; Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Williams, Richard; Jones, Chris; Brovkin, Victor; Friedlingstein, Pierre.
2020
Carbon-concentration and carbon-climate feedbacks in CMIP6 models, and their comparison to CMIP5 models.
In: EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4-8 May 2020.
2020
Conference item
Williams, Richard G.; Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Goodwin, Philip.
2019
Carbon-cycle feedbacks operating in the climate system.
Current Climate Change Reports, 5 (4).
282-295.
10.1007/s40641-019-00144-9
2019
Article
Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Williams, Richard G.; Goodwin, Philip.
2019
The effect of ocean ventilation on the transient climate response to emissions.
Journal of Climate, 32 (16).
5085-5105.
10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0829.1
2019
Article
Goodwin, Philip; Williams, Richard G.; Roussenov, Vassil M.; Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996.
2019
Climate sensitivity from both physical and carbon cycle feedbacks.
Geophysical Research Letters, 46 (13).
7554-7564.
10.1029/2019GL082887
2019
Article
Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Williams, Richard G.; Goodwin, Philip; Roussenov, Vassil.
2018
Reconciling atmospheric and oceanic views of the transient climate response to emissions.
Geophysical Research Letters, 45 (12).
6205-6214.
10.1029/2018GL077849
2018
Article
Chegini, Fatemeh; Lu, Youyu; Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Ritchie, Harold.
2018
Coastal Upwelling Off Southwest Nova Scotia Simulated With a High-Resolution Baroclinic Ocean Model.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123 (4).
2318-2331.
10.1002/2017JC013431
2018
Article
Goodwin, Philip; Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Roussenov, Vassil M.; Foster, Gavin L.; Rohling, Eelco J.; Williams, Richard G..
2018
Pathways to 1.5 °C and 2 °C warming based on observational and geological constraints.
Nature Geoscience, 11 (2).
102-107.
10.1038/s41561-017-0054-8
2018
Article
Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Thompson, Keith R.; Lu, Youyu; Loder, John W..
2016
Interaction between the tidal and seasonal variability of the Gulf of Maine and Scotian Shelf Region.
Journal of Physical Oceanography, 46 (11).
3279-3298.
10.1175/JPO-D-15-0091.1
2016
Article
Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Thompson, Keith R..
2016
Downscaling ocean conditions with application to the Gulf of Maine, Scotian Shelf and adjacent deep ocean.
Ocean Modelling, 104.
54-72.
10.1016/j.ocemod.2016.05.007
2016
Article
Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Myers, Paul G..
2014
Sea-Ice Concentration Multivariate Assimilation for the Canadian East Coast in a Coupled Sea Ice–Ocean Model.
Atmosphere-Ocean, 52 (5).
418-433.
10.1080/07055900.2014.954096
2014
Article
Katavouta, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Thompson, K.R..
2013
Downscaling ocean conditions: Experiments with a quasi-geostrophic model.
Ocean Modelling, 72.
231-241.
10.1016/j.ocemod.2013.10.001
2013
Article