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Dr Ben Timmermans

Job Title
Satellite Data Analyst
Site
Southampton

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/

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Publications

Authors

Collins, Clarence O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4553-616X; Amador, Andre ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0476-4019; Babanin, Alexander ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8595-8204; Behrens, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4710-9604; Benetazzo, Alvise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9535-4922; Bergamasco, Filippo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6668-1556; Blenkinsopp, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5784-2805; Bonneton, Philippe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7536-1084; Breivik, Øyvind ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2900-8458; Christensen, Kai H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5775-794X; Colosi, Luke ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0571-4358; Ewans, Kevin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3863-3973; Gemmrich, Johannes ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6514-8178; Glover, Hannah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7139-3791; Grare, Laurent ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3505-571X; Grigorieva, Vika ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5138-8450; Gulev, Sergey ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4296-5121; Hauser, Danièle ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9478-670X; Hole, Lars R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2246-9235; Hope, Gaute ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5653-1447; Houghton, Isabel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7480-2415; Hsu, Je‐Yuan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4229-2633; Laxague, Nathan J. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0373-9236; Lenain, Luc ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9808-1563; Lund, Björn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9440-3825; O’Dea, Annika ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6758-8764; Pistellato, Mara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6273-290X; Magnusson, Anne Karin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0539-7900; Martins, Kévin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5457-4187; Matsuba, Yoshinao ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9683-2447; McAllister, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5142-3172; Merrifield, Sophia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4152-7285; Müller, Malte ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2871-8359; Passaro, Marcello ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3372-3948; Rabault, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7244-6592; Roarty, Hugh ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5048-7043; Skvortsov, Alexei ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8202-7052; Smit, Pieter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6756-9136; Smith, Madison M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2259-042X; Tamura, Hitoshi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2157-9504; Terrill, Eric ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1807-8351; Tilinina, Natalia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5982-4205; Timmermans, Ben ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2220-8489; Thomson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8929-0088; Voermans, Joey ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2963-3763; Wengrove, Meagan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7391-8574; Wyatt, Lucy R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9483-0018; Yoo, Jeseon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3622-8042; Young, Ian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2233-9227; Zappa, Christopher J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0041-2913; Zhang, Dongxiao ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5788-911X. 2026 Measuring Ocean Surface Waves. Reviews of Geophysics, 64 (3). 10.1029/2025RG000888

Publication year

2026

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Article

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

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Article

Publication year

2024

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Article

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

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Conference item