Kaitlin Naughten

Ocean Modeller Amundsen Sea

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Kaitlin Naughten

Ocean Modeller Amundsen Sea

Biography

Kaitlin Naughten is an ocean modeller specialising in ice shelf, ocean, and sea ice interactions around Antarctica. Her research primarily focuses on the response of Antarctic ice shelves to climate change, and the implications for global sea level rise. She has experience with a large variety of ocean, sea ice, ice sheet, and coupled climate models. She co-developed ÚaMITgcm, one of the world’s first successful coupled ice-sheet/ocean models, and is now developing ice-sheet/ocean coupling in the UK Earth System Model.

Employment and education

2022-present: Ocean/Ice Climate Modeller (BAS)
2020-2022: Ocean/Ice Modeller Amundsen Sea (BAS)
2018-2020: Ocean/Ice Modeller MITgcm (BAS)
2014-2018: PhD (University of New South Wales, Australia)
2010-2014: BSc (University of Manitoba, Canada)

Management experience

Line manager of Birgit Rogalla, postdoc (2023-present)
Line manager of Tarkan Bilge, postdoc (2023-present)
Primary supervisor of Katherine Turner, PhD student with Southampton (2022-present)
Primary supervisor of Joren Janzing, MSc student with Utrecht (2021-2022)

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive

2024

De Rydt, Jan, Naughten, Kaitlin . (2024) Geometric amplification and suppression of ice-shelf basal melt in West Antarctica. The Cryosphere, 18. 26 pp. 10.5194/tc-18-1863-2024

2023

Huneke, W.G.C., Hobbs, W.R., Klocker, A., Naughten, K.A. . (2023) Dynamic Response to Ice Shelf Basal Meltwater Relevant to Explain Observed Sea Ice Trends Near the Antarctic Continental Shelf. Geophysical Research Letters, 50. 10 pp. 10.1029/2023GL105435

Naughten, Kaitlin A. , Holland, Paul R. , De Rydt, Jan. (2023) Unavoidable future increase in West Antarctic ice-shelf melting over the twenty-first century. Nature Climate Change. 20 pp. 10.1038/s41558-023-01818-x

Reese, Ronja, Garbe, Julius, Hill, Emily A., Urruty, Benoît, Naughten, Kaitlin A. , Gagliardini, Olivier, Durand, Gaël, Gillet-Chaulet, Fabien, Gudmundsson, G. Hilmar, Chandler, David, Langebroek, Petra M., Winkelmann, Ricarda. (2023) The stability of present-day Antarctic grounding lines – Part 2: Onset of irreversible retreat of Amundsen Sea glaciers under current climate on centennial timescales cannot be excluded. The Cryosphere, 17. 23 pp. 10.5194/tc-17-3761-2023

2022

Silvano, Alessandro, Holland, Paul R. , Naughten, Kaitlin A. , Dragomir, Oana, Dutrieux, Pierre , Jenkins, Adrian, Si, Yidongfang, Stewart, Andrew L., Peña Molino, Beatriz, Janzing, Gregor W., Dotto, Tiago S., Naveira Garabato, Alberto C.. (2022) Baroclinic Ocean Response to Climate Forcing Regulates Decadal Variability of Ice‐Shelf Melting in the Amundsen Sea. Geophysical Research Letters, 49. 10 pp. 10.1029/2022GL100646

Holland, Paul R. , O'Connor, Gemma K., Bracegirdle, Thomas J. , Dutrieux, Pierre , Naughten, Kaitlin A. , Steig, Eric J., Schneider, David P., Jenkins, Adrian, Smith, James A. . (2022) Anthropogenic and internal drivers of wind changes over the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica, during the 20th and 21st centuries. The Cryosphere, 16. 5085-5105. 10.5194/tc-16-5085-2022

Naughten, Kaitlin A. , Holland, Paul R. , Dutrieux, Pierre , Kimura, Satoshi, Bett, David T. , Jenkins, Adrian. (2022) Simulated twentieth-century ocean warming in the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 49. 10 pp. 10.1029/2021GL094566

Richter, Ole, Gwyther, David E., Galton-Fenzi, Benjamin K., Naughten, Kaitlin A. . (2022) The Whole Antarctic Ocean Model (WAOM v1.0): Development and evaluation. Geoscientific Model Development, 15. 617-647. 10.5194/gmd-15-617-2022

2021

Naughten, Kaitlin A. , De Rydt, Jan, Rosier, Sebastian H.R., Jenkins, Adrian, Holland, Paul R. , Ridley, Jeff K.. (2021) Two-timescale response of a large Antarctic ice shelf to climate change. Nature Communications, 12. 10 pp. 10.1038/s41467-021-22259-0

2020

Daae, K., Hattermann, T., Darelius, E., Mueller, R., Naughten, K. , Timmerman, R., Hellmer, H.H.. (2020) Necessary conditions for warm inflow towards the Filchner Ice Shelf, Weddell Sea. Geophysical Research Letters, 47. 11 pp. 10.1029/2020GL089237

Bracegirdle, Thomas J. , Krinner, Gerhard, Tonelli, Marcos, Haumann, F. Alexander, Naughten, Kaitlin A. , Rackow, Thomas, Roach, Lettie A., Wainer, Ilana. (2020) Twenty first century changes in Antarctic and Southern Ocean surface climate in CMIP6. Atmospheric Science Letters, 21. 10.1002/asl.984

2019

Naughten, Kaitlin , Jenkins, Adrian , Holland, Paul , Mugford, Ruth, Nicholls, Keith , Munday, Dave . (2019) Modeling the influence of the Weddell Polynya on the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf cavity. Journal of Climate, 32. 5389-5303. 10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0203.1

Golledge, Nicholas R, Keller, Elizabeth D, Gomez, Natalya, Naughten, Kaitlin , Bernales, Jorge, Trusel, Luke D, Edwards, Tamsin L. (2019) Global environmental consequences of 21st century ice sheet melt. Nature, 566. 65-72. 10.1038/s41586-019-0889-9

Publications before joining BAS

Please note Kaitlin’s former surname Alexander.

Naughten, K.A., Meissner, K.J., Galton-Fenzi, B.K., England, M.H., Timmermann, R., Hellmer, H.H. (2018) Future projections of Antarctic ice shelf melting based on CMIP5 scenarios. Journal of Climate, 31: 5243-5261, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0854.1.

Naughten, K.A., Meissner, K.J., Galton-Fenzi, B.K., England, M.H., Timmermann, R., Hellmer, H.H., Hattermann, T., Debernard, J.B. (2018) Intercomparison of Antarctic ice-shelf, ocean, and sea-ice interactions simulated by MetROMS-iceshelf and FESOM 1.4. Geoscientific Model Development, 11: 1257-1292, doi:10.5194/gmd-11-1257-2018.

Naughten, K.A., Galton-Fenzi, B.K., Meissner, K.J., England, M.H., Brassington, G.B., Colberg, F., Hattermann, T., Debernard, J.B. (2017) Spurious sea ice formation caused by oscillatory ocean tracer advection schemes. Ocean Modelling, 116: 108-117, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2017.06.010.

Alexander, K., Meissner, K.J., Bralower, T.J. (2015) Sudden spreading of corrosive bottom water during the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Nature Geoscience, 8: 458-461, doi:10.1038/ngeo2430.

Alexander, K., Easterbrook, S.M. (2015) The software architecture of climate models: a graphical comparison of CMIP5 and EMICAR5 configurations. Geoscientific Model Development, 8: 1221-1232, doi:10.5194/gmd-8-1221-2015.

Meissner, K.J., Bralower, T.J., Alexander, K., Dunkley Jones, T., Sijp, W., Ward, M. (2014) The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: How much carbon is enough? Paleoceanography, 29: 946-963, doi:10.1002/2014PA002650.

Bralower, T.J., Meissner, K.J., Alexander, K., Thomas, D.J. (2014) The dynamics of global change at the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum: A data-model comparison. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15: 3830-3848, doi:10.1002/2014GC005474.

Zickfeld, K., Eby, M., Weaver, A.J., Alexander, K., et al. (2013) Long-Term Climate Change Commitment and Reversibility: An EMIC Intercomparison. Journal of Climate, 26: 5782-5809, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00584.1.

Eby, M., Weaver, A.J., Alexander, K., et al. (2013) Historical and idealized climate model experiments: an intercomparison of Earth system models of intermediate complexity. Climate of the Past, 9: 1111-1140, doi:10.5194/cp-9-1111-2013.

Weaver, A.J., Sedlacek, J., Eby, M., Alexander, K., et al. (2012) Stability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation: A model intercomparison. Geophysical Research Letters, 39: L20709, doi:10.1029/2012GL053763.