Dr Benjamin Barton

Biography

I am interested in shelf seas processes, numerical modelling, freshwater sources, machine learning, the Arctic Ocean and the Northwest European Shelf.
2019 - present: Coastal Ocean Modeller at National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, UK
2016 - 2019: PhD at University of Brest, France in collaboration with Bangor University, UK
2013 - 2016: Ocean Scientist, Knowtra Limited, Bangor, UK
2009 - 2013: MSci Oceanography at University of Southampton, UK
Orcid ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9998-2064
Google Scholar: Dr. Benjamin I. Barton

Projects

I've been involved with:
Scottish Shelf Water - Reanalysis Service (SSW-RS)
Connectivity of Hard Substrate Assemblages in the North Sea (CHASANS)
Encore the National Capability ORchestra Extension (ENCORE)
Climate Change in the Arctic and North Atlantic Region and Impacts on the UK developing the ARC36 model (CANARI)
NEMO lateral boundary conditions (pyBDY)
Development of the Shetland and East Coast Lewis and Harris Scottish Shelf Models (ECLH) (SEPA-AQUA)
MetOffice regional ocean component development for the North Atlantic ARCtic model (NAARC)

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Publications

Publication year

2025

Publication type

Article

Authors

Yang, Chunxue; Bourdallé-Badie, Romain; Drevillon, Marie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4586-8957; Amaya, Dillon; Aouf, Lotfi; Aydogdu, Ali; Barton, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9998-2064; Bell, Mike; Boyer, Tim; Blauw, Anouk; Carton, James; Candela, Tony; Cossarini, Gianpiero; Dabrowski, Tomasz; de Boisseson, Eric; de Mora, Lee; Fablet, Ronan; Forget, Gaël; Fujii, Yosuke; Garric, Gilles; Giunta, Valentina; Salamon, Peter; Hersbach, Hans; Juza, Mélanie; Le Sommer, Julien; Martin, Matthew; McAdam, Ronan; Menendez Garcia, Melisa; Morim, Joao; Nicolì, Dario; Reppucci, Antonio; Samuelsen, Annette; Sauzède, Raphaëlle; Slivinski, Laura; Specq, Damien; Storto, Andrea; Tuomi, Laura; Vandenbulcke, Luc; Aznar, Roland; Beuvier, Jonathan; Cipollone, Andrea; Clementi, Emanuela; Di Biagio, Valeria; Escudier, Romain; Giesen, Rianne; Greiner, Eric; Guihou, Karen; Korabel, Vasily; Lamouroux, Julien; Law Chune, Stephane; Lellouche, Jean-Michel; Levier, Bruno; Lima, Leonardo; Mangin, Antoine; Mayer, Michael; Melet, Angelique; Miraglio, Pietro; Oikonomou, Charikleia; Pfeffer, Julia; Renshaw, Richard; Ringgaard, Ida; Thual, Sulian; Titaud, Olivier; Tonani, Marina; van Gennip, Simon; von Schuckmann, Karina; Drillet, Yann; Le Traon, Pierre-Yves. 2025 Gathering users and developers to shape together the next-generation ocean reanalyses. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 106 (2). E419-E429. 10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0034.1

Publication year

2025

Publication type

Article

Authors

Barton, Benjamin I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9998-2064; De Dominicis, Michela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0544-7939; O’Hara Murray, Rory; Wolf, Judith ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4129-8221; Gallego, Alejandro. 2024 Formation and dynamics of a coherent coastal freshwater influenced system. Earth and Space Science, 11 (2). 10.1029/2023ea002872

Publication year

2024

Publication type

Article

Authors

Barton, Benjamin I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9998-2064; Lique, Camille; Lenn, Yueng‐Djern; Talandier, Claude. 2022 An ice‐ocean model study of the mid‐2000s regime change in the Barents Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127 (11). 10.1029/2021JC018280

Publication year

2022

Publication type

Article

Authors

MacKinnon, Jennifer A.; Simmons, Harper L.; Hargrove, John; Thomson, Jim; Peacock, Thomas; Alford, Matthew H.; Barton, Benjamin I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9998-2064; Boury, Samuel; Brenner, Samuel D.; Couto, Nicole; Danielson, Seth L.; Fine, Elizabeth C.; Graber, Hans C.; Guthrie, John; Hopkins, Joanne E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Jayne, Steven R.; Jeon, Chanhyung; Klenz, Thilo; Lee, Craig M.; Lenn, Yueng-Djern; Lucas, Andrew J.; Lund, Björn; Mahaffey, Claire; Norman, Louisa; Rainville, Luc; Smith, Madison M.; Thomas, Leif N.; Torres-Valdés, Sinhué; Wood, Kevin R.. 2021 A warm jet in a cold ocean. Nature Communications, 12 (1). 10.1038/s41467-021-22505-5

Publication year

2021

Publication type

Article

Authors

Barton, Benjamin I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9998-2064; Lique, Camille; Lenn, Yueng‐Djern. 2020 Water mass properties derived from satellite observations in the Barents Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125 (8), e2019JC015449. 10.1029/2019JC015449

Publication year

2020

Publication type

Article

Authors

Goward Brown, Alice J.; Lewis, Matt; Barton, Benjamin I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9998-2064; Jeans, Gus; Spall, Steven A.. 2019 Investigation of the modulation of the tidal stream resource by ocean currents through a complex tidal channel. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 7 (10). 341. 10.3390/jmse7100341

Publication year

2019

Publication type

Article

Authors

Barton, Benjamin I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9998-2064; Lenn, Yueng-Djern; Lique, Camille. 2018 Observed atlantification of the Barents Sea Causes the polar front to limit the expansion of winter sea ice. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 48 (8). 1849-1866. 10.1175/jpo-d-18-0003.1

Publication year

2018

Publication type

Article