Dr Kial Stewart

Lecturer
Associate Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather

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Climate scientist primarily based in the Climate & Fluid Physics Laboratory.

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Affiliations

science Research area
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Teaching information

The Blue Planet - EMSC1006

Climate Dynamics - EMSC3039/PHYS3039

Location

Room 1.06, Jaeger #7

Publications

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Submitted

K.D. Stewart, T.G. Schmalz & C.J. Shakespeare. Dynamical Consequences of Polar Amplification on Standing Rossby Waves: a Laboratory Perspective, Journal of Climate.

K.D. Stewart, C.J. Shakespeare & T.G. Schmalz. Exciting Standing Rossby Waves in the Large Rotating Annulus, Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics.

J.K. Sweetman, C.J. Shakespeare, K.D. Stewart. Investigating the effect of internal waves on vertical ice melting rates, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.

 

Published

25) J.K. Sweetman, C.J. Shakespeare, K.D. Stewart (2025). The influence of ocean swell and wind waves on iceberg melting, Geophysical Research Letters.

24) W. Aguiar et al. (2025). Antarctic dense water formation sensitivity to ocean surface cell thickness, Journal of Advances in Modelling Earth Systems.

23) J.K. Sweetman, C.J. Shakespeare, K.D. Stewart & C.D. McConnochie (2024). Laboratory experiments of melting ice in warm salt-stratified environments, Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

22) K.D. Stewart & C.J. Shakespeare (2024). On stratified flow over a topographic ridge in a rotating annulus, Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics.

21) K.D. Stewart, W. Palm, C.J. Shakespeare & N. Kraitzman (2024). The sensitivity of sea-ice brine fraction to the freezing temperature and orientation, Annals of Glaciology.

20) K.D. Stewart & F. Macleod (2022). A laboratory model for a meandering zonal jet, Journal of Advances in Modelling Earth Systems.

19) R.M. Holmes, S. Groeskamp, K.D. Stewart & T.J. McDougall (2022). Sensitivity of a course-resolution global ocean model to a spatially variable neutral diffusivity, Journal of Advances in Modelling Earth Systems.

18) K.D. Stewart, A.McC. Hogg, M.H. England, D.W. Waugh & A.E. Kiss (2021). The Ekman streamfunction and the Eulerian and residual overturning circulations of the Southern Ocean, Geophysical Research Letters.

17) K.D. Stewart, C.J. Shakespeare, Y. Dossmann & A.McC. Hogg (2021). A simple technique for developing and visualising stratified fluid dynamics: the hot double-bucket, Experiments in Fluids.

16) D.W. Waugh, K.D. Stewart, A.McC. Hogg & M.H. England (2021). Interbasin differences in ocean ventilation in response to variations in the Southern Annular Mode, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.

15) K.D. Stewart, A.McC. Hogg, M.H. England & D.W. Waugh (2020). Response of the Southern Ocean overturning circulation to extreme Southern Annular Mode conditions, Geophysical Research Letters.

14) Y. Dossmann, C.J. Shakespeare, K.D. Stewart & A.McC. Hogg (2020). Asymmetric internal tide generation in the presence of a steady flow, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.

13) K.D. Stewart, W.H. Kim, S. Urakawa, A.McC. Hogg, S. Yeager, H. Tsujino, H. Nakano, A.E. Kiss & G. Danabasoglu (2020). JRA55-do-based repeat year forcing datasets for driving ocean-sea ice models, Ocean Modelling.

12) A.E. Kiss, et al. (2020). ACCESS-OM2 v1.0: a global ocean-sea ice model at three resolutions, Geoscientific Model Development.

11) K.D. Stewart & A.McC. Hogg (2019). Southern Ocean heat and momentum uptake are sensitive to the vertical resolution at the ocean surface, Ocean Modelling.

10) K.D. Stewart, A.McC. Hogg, S.M. Griffies, A.P. Heerdegen, M.L. Ward P. Spence & M.H. England (2017). Vertical resolution of baroclinic modes in global ocean models, Ocean Modelling.

9) K.D. Stewart, T.W.N. Haine, A.McC. Hogg & F. Roquet (2017). On Cabbeling and Thermobaricity in the Surface Mixed Layer, Journal of Physical Oceanography.

8) P. Spence, R.H. Holmes, A.McC. Hogg, S.M. Griffies, K.D. Stewart & M.H. England (2017). Localized rapid warming of West Antarctic subsurface waters by remote winds, Nature Climate Change.

7) K.D. Stewart & T.W.N. Haine (2016). Thermobaricity in the Transition Zones between Alpha and Beta Oceans, Journal of Physical Oceanography

6) K.D. Stewart, P. Spence, S. Waterman, J. Le Sommer, J-M. Molines, J.M. Lilly & M.H. England (2015). Anisotropy of Eddy Variability in the Global Ocean, Ocean Modelling

5) T.W.N. Haine, B. Curry, R. Gerdes, E. Hansen, M. Karcher, C. Lee, B. Rudels, G. Spreen, L. de Steur, K.D. Stewart & R. Woodgate (2015). Arctic Freshwater Export: Status, Mechanisms, and Prospects, Global and Planetary Change

4) K.D. Stewart, J.A. Saenz, A.McC. Hogg, G.O. Hughes & R.W. Griffiths (2014). Effect of Topographic Barriers on the Rates of Available Potential Energy Conversion of the Oceans, Ocean Modelling

3) K.D. Stewart & T.W.N. Haine (2013). Wind-Driven Arctic Freshwater Anomalies, Geophysical Research Letters

2) K.D. Stewart, G.O. Hughes & R.W. Griffiths (2012). The Role of Turbulent Mixing in an Overturning Circulation Maintained by Surface Buoyancy Forcing, Journal of Physical Oceanography

1) K.D. Stewart, G.O. Hughes & R.W. Griffiths (2011). When do marginal seas and topographic sills modify the ocean density structure? Journal of Geophysical Research