Dr Ben Timmermans

Job Title

Satellite Data Analyst

Site

Southampton

Email

benerm@noc.ac.uk

Biography

My research interests span applied statistics, Earth observations from satellite and numerical simulation of ocean surface waves, weather and climate. I am interested in long term variability of the climate, including the representation of extremes in observations and simulations. My research in this area has covered sea state (ocean surface waves), precipitation and tropical cyclones. I also have an interest in uncertainty in large datasets, and uncertainty linked to input variability in numerical simulations. My previous research includes the generation of large numerical climate ensembles and the use of applied statistics and machine learning methods to perform uncertainty analysis.

I currently work predominantly on the analysis of observations of sea state from satellite remote sensing.

Some more information about my research interests can be found at my personal site: https://research.horizonhunter.net

Projects

WaveClim (funded by ARIA)
The WaveClim project (Serge Guillas, UCL) is a collaborative effort between UCL, NOC and ENS Paris. It aims to exploit observations, numerical modelling and machine learning techniques to provide a better understand of the climate impacts of ocean surface wave breaking, particularly near to the coastline.

Sea State Climate Change Initiative Phase 2 (funded by ESA)
More information can be found at the following links:
https://climate.esa.int/en/projects/sea-state/
https://projects.noc.ac.uk/seastatecci/

Publications

Authors

Bricheno, L.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4751-9366; Woolf, D.; Valiente, N.G.; Makrygianni, N.; Chowdhury, P.; Timmermans, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2220-8489. 2025 Climate change impacts on storms and waves relevant to the UK and Ireland. MCCIP Science Review 2025. 10.14465/2025.reu09.str

Publication year

2025

Publication type

Article

Authors

Timmermans, Ben W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2220-8489; Gommenginger, Christine P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6941-1671; Donlon, Craig J.. 2024 Uncertainty in sea state observations from satellite altimeters and buoys during the Jason-3/Sentinel-6 MF tandem experiment. Remote Sensing, 16 (13), 2395. 10.3390/rs16132395

Publication year

2024

Publication type

Article

Authors

Timmermans, Ben ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2220-8489; Shaw, Andrew G. P.; Gommenginger, Christine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6941-1671. 2020 Reliability of extreme significant wave height estimation from satellite altimetry and in situ measurements in the coastal zone. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 8 (12), 1039. 10.3390/jmse8121039

Publication year

2020

Publication type

Article

Authors

Dodet, Guillaume; Piolle, Jean-François; Quilfen, Yves; Abdalla, Saleh; Accensi, Mickaël; Ardhuin, Fabrice; Ash, Ellis; Bidlot, Jean-Raymond; Gommenginger, Christine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6941-1671; Marechal, Gwendal; Passaro, Marcello; Quartly, Graham; Stopa, Justin; Timmermans, Ben ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2220-8489; Young, Ian; Cipollini, Paolo; Donlon, Craig. 2020 The Sea State CCI dataset v1: towards a sea state climate data record based on satellite observations. Earth System Science Data, 12 (3). 1929-1951. 10.5194/essd-12-1929-2020

Publication year

2020

Publication type

Article

Authors

Banks, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4457-0876; Gommenginger, Christine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6941-1671; Calafat, Francisco M.; Dayoub, Nadim; Snaith, Helen; Wimmer, Werenfrid; Hammond, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8918-2351; Timmermans, Ben ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2220-8489. 2020 Evaluation of sea state products from the Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-3B tandem phase. In: Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego, California, 16-21 February 2020.

Publication year

2020

Publication type

Conference item