Dr Wilton Aguiar
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About
About me
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Australian National University and the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS).
Affiliations
- Climate & Ocean Geoscience, Member
- Climate and Fluid Physics, Researcher
Research interests
The focus of my research is the large-scale ocean circulation and its effect on climate, with particular focus on the following topics: polar climate, past and future changes in the large-scale ocean circulation, and interactions between sea ice and bottom and deep water formation. To understand these ocean processes I use models of different complexities and resolutions, ranging from Earth System Models of Intermediate Complexity to high resolution ocean models.
Projects
- Ocean feedbacks to Antarctic ice melt, Supervisor
- Southern Ocean Circulation, Supervisor
Location
142 Mills road, Jaeger 7 building
Publications
Published:
Schmidt, C., Morrison, A. K., England, M. H., Aguiar, W., & Gibson, A. H. (2025). Sensitivity of Antarctic Bottom Water formation and export to horizontal model resolution. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 17
Aguiar, W., Morrison, A. K., Huneke, W. G. C., Hutchinson, D. K., Spence, P., Hogg, A. M., et al. (2025). Antarctic dense water formation sensitivity to ocean surface cell thickness. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 17
Aguiar, W.; Lee, SK.; Lopez, H.; Dong, S.; Seroussi, H.; Jones, D.; Morrison, A.; (2023) Antarctic Bottom Water sensitivity to spatio-temporal variations in Antarctic meltwater fluxes
Lee, SK.; Lumpkin, R.; Gomez, F.; Yeager, S.; Lopez, H.; Takglis, F.; Dong, S.; Aguiar, W.; Kim, D.; Baringer, M.; (2023)Human-induced changes in the global meridional overturning circulation are emerging from the Southern Ocean. Communications Earth & Environment
Aguiar, W.; Meissner, KJ; Montenegro, A.; Prado, L.; Wainer, I.; Carlson, A.E; Mata, M.M; (2021) Magnitude of the 8.2 ka event freshwater forcing based on stable isotope modelling and comparison to future Greenland melting. Scientific Reports
Aguiar, W.; Prado, LF; Wainer, I.; Liu, Z.; Montenegro, Al.; Meissner, KJ; Mata, MM; (2020)Freshwater forcing control on early-Holocene South American monsoon. Quaternary Science Reviews
Oliveira, JC; Aguiar, W; Cirano, M; Genz, F; de Amorim, FN; (2018)A climatology of the annual cycle of river discharges into the Brazilian continental shelves: from seasonal to interannual variability. Environmental Earth Sciences