Dr Wilma Huneke
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I joined ANU as part of an ARC funded Discovery Project on the Risks of rapid ocean warming at the Antarctic continental margin where I used a global high-resolution ocean model to study the current system around Antarctica in 2020. In 2022, I started an ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CLEX) research fellow position at ANU and became an associated investigator at the Australian Centre of Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) in the same year. I now mostly work with coupled atmosphere-ocean models to study the large-scale ocean circulation and the impact of ocean resolution in the coupled system.
I studied climate physics at GEOMAR, Germany, and received my PhD in 2019 from the University of Tasmania, Australia. My PhD research focused on the dynamics of the Antarctic Slope Front using an ocean-ice shelf model with both idealised and realistic configurations of the ocean around Antarctica.
Find out more at my github profile.
Affiliations
- Climate and Fluid Physics Group, Researcher
Projects
- Ocean circulation around Antarctica, Supervisor
Supervised students
Publications
Wilton Aguiar, Taimoor Sohail, Adele K. Morrison, Ellie Q. Y. Ong, Fabio Boeira Dias, Wilma G. C. Huneke, Paul Spence, Matthew H. England (in review), Reassessing the role of the Antarctic Slope Current in poleward ocean heat transport, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
Hangyu Meng, Wilma G. C. Huneke, Wilton Aguiar, Andrew McC. Hogg, Adele K. Morrison (2025), Future warming of Circumpolar Deep Water linked to surface buoyancy forcing, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, doi:10.1029/2025JC023319
Wilma G. C. Huneke, Andrew McC. Hogg, Martin Dix, Daohua Bi, Arnold Sullivan, Shayne McGregor, Chiara M. Holgate, Siobhan P. O’Farrell, Micael J. T. Oliveira (2025), The ACCESS-CM2 climate model with a higher-resolution ocean-sea ice component (1/4◦), Geoscientific Model Development, doi:10.5194/gmd-18-9991-2025
Benjamin K. Galton-Fenzi, ..., Wilma G. C. Huneke, ... (2025), Realistic ice-shelf/ocean state estimates (RISE) of Antarctic basal melting and drivers, The Cryosphere, doi:10.5194/tc-19-6507-2025
Wilton Aguiar, Adele K. Morrison, Wilma G. C. Huneke, David K. Hutchinson, Paul Spence, Andy McC. Hogg, Pedro Colombo, Kial D. Stewart (2025), Antarctic dense water formation sensitivity to ocean surface cell thickness, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, doi:10.1029/2024MS004913
Constantinou Navid C., ..., Huneke Wilma, ... (2025), COSIMA Cookbook: A cookbook of recipes for analysing ocean and sea ice model output. doi:10.5281/zenodo.14845597
Bennetts L. G., Shakespeare C. J., Vreugdenhil C. A., ... Huneke W. G. C., ... (2024), Closing the loops on Southern Ocean dynamics: From the circumpolar current to ice shelves and from bottom mixing to surface waves, Reviews of Geophysics, 62, e2022RG000781, doi:10.1029/2022RG000781
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, e2023GL105435. doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105435
Huneke W. G. C., Morrison A. K., & Hogg A. M. (2023), Decoupling of the surface and bottom-intensified Antarctic Slope Current in regions of dense shelf water export. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL104834, doi:10.1029/2023GL104834
Morrison A. K., Huneke W. G. C. , Neme J., Spence P., Hogg A. McC., England M. H. and Griffies S. M. (2023), Sensitivity of Antarctic shelf waters and abyssal overturning to local winds, Journal of Climate, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0858.1
Huneke W. G. C., Morrison A. K., & Hogg A. M. (2022), Spatial and subannual variability of the Antarctic Slope Current in an eddying oceansea ice model. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52(3), 347–361, doi:10.1175/jpo-d-21-0143.1
Huneke W. G. C., Klocker A., Galton-Fenzi B. K. (2019), Deep bottom mixed layer drives intrinsic variability of the Antarctic Slope Front, Journal of Physical Oceanography, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-19-0044.1
Huneke W. G. C., Huhn O., Schröder M. (2016), Water masses in the Bransfield Strait and adjacent seas, austral summer 2013, Polar Biology, doi:10.1007/s00300-016-1936-8
Herr H., Viquerat S., Siegel V., Kock K-H, Dorschel B., Huneke W. G. C., Bracher A., Schröder M., Gutt J. (2016), Horizontal niche partitioning of humpback and fin whales around the West Antarctic Peninsula: evidence from a concurrent whale and krill survey, Polar Biology, doi:10.1007/s00300-016-1927-9
Dorschel B., Gutt J., Huhn O., Bracher A., Huntemann M., Huneke W., Gebhardt C., Schröder M., Herr H. (2016), Environmental information for a marine ecosystem research approach for the northern Antarctic Peninsula (RV Polarstern expedition PS81, ANT-XXIX/3), Polar Biology, doi:0.1007/s00300-015-1861-2
Segelkern-Voigt A., Bracher A., Dorschel B., Gutt J., Huneke W., Link H., Piepenburg D. (2016), Spatial distribution patterns of ascidians (Ascidiacea: Tunicata) on the continental shelves off the northern Antarctic Peninsula. Polar Biology, doi:10.1007/s00300-016-1909-y
