Dr Chris Banks

Biography

Chris is a satellite oceanographer with extensive validation and project management expertise. His research interests include satellite altimetry and salinity from space. He was awarded a PhD from The Open University for his thesis Sea ice thickness and iceberg distribution in the Southern Ocean.
PhD Students
Nurul Tazaroh - Sea level variation around the UK coast and its effect on flood risk (current)
Anneke Sperling – Do ocean currents stick together? (current)
Jessica Cartwright – Novel applications of GNSS-R data from TechDemoSat-1 to monitoring the cryosphere (2021)
Rafael Jaume Catany – Understanding Tropical Cyclone induced changes in upper ocean temperature and salinity (2019)

Committee Memberships

Convenor of Ocean Remote Sensing Special Interest Group of Challenger Society for Marine Science (contact Chris to join mailing list)

Memeber of ESA CryoSat Quality Working Group

Projects

Project Manager for ESA funded CryOcean-QCV Project concerned with quality control and validation of Ocean Products from CryoSat altimetry satellite (sea level, wind speed and significant wave height). Routine reports available from https://qras.earth.esa.int/?mis=CryoSat&ins=SIRAL&dot=Quality%20Control%20Report

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Publications

Authors

Banks, Christopher J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4457-0876; Calafat, Francisco Mir ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7474-135X; Shaw, Andrew G. P.; Snaith, Helen M.; Gommenginger, Christine P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6941-1671; Bouffard, Jérôme. 2023 A new daily quarter degree sea level anomaly product from CryoSat-2 for ocean science and applications. Scientific Data, 10 (1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02300-1

Publication year

2023

Publication type

Article

Authors

Abdalla, Saleh; Abdeh Kolahchi, Abdolnabi; Ablain, Michaël; Banks, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4457-0876; Dayoub, Nadim; Gommenginger, Christine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6941-1671; Srokosz, Meric ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7347-7411; Woodworth, Philip; et al, .. 2021 Altimetry for the future: Building on 25 years of progress. Advances in Space Research. 10.1016/j.asr.2021.01.022 (In Press)

Publication year

2021

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Article

Authors

Rulent, Julia; Mir Calafat, Francisco ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7474-135X; Banks, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4457-0876; Bricheno, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4751-9366; Gommenginger, Christine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6941-1671; Green, Mattias; Haigh, Ivan D.; Lewis, Huw; Martin, Adrien. 2020 Comparing water level estimation in coastal and shelf seas from satellite altimetry and numerical models. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 549467. 10.3389/fmars.2020.549467

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2020

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Article

Authors

Clerc, Sébastien; Donlon, Craig; Borde, Franck; Lamquin, Nicolas; Hunt, Samuel E.; Smith, Dave; McMillan, Malcolm; Mittaz, Jonathan; Woolliams, Emma; Hammond, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8918-2351; Banks, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4457-0876; Moreau, Thomas; Picard, Bruno; Raynal, Matthias; Rieu, Pierre; Guérou, Adrien. 2020 Benefits and lessons learned from the Sentinel-3 tandem phase. Remote Sensing, 12 (17), 2668. 10.3390/rs12172668

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2020

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Article

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2020

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Article

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2020

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Article

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2020

Publication type

Monograph

Authors

Mir Calafat, Francisco ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7474-135X; Banks, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4457-0876; Snaith, Helen; Gommenginger, Christine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6941-1671; Shaw, Andrew; Cipollini, Paolo; Dayoub, Nadim; Bouffard, Jérôme; Meloni, Marco. 2020 Evaluation and scientific exploitation of CryoSat ocean products for oceanographic studies. [Lecture] In: EGU General Assembly 2020, 4–8 May 2020. EGU General Assembly.

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2020

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Conference item

Authors

Cartwright, Jessica; Banks, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4457-0876; Srokosz, Meric ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7347-7411. 2020 Sea ice detection with GNSS-Reflectometry data from TechDemoSat-1. In: Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego, California, 16-21 February 2020.

Publication year

2020

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Conference item

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

Authors

Cartwright, Jessica; Banks, Christopher J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4457-0876; Srokosz, Meric ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7347-7411. 2019 Sea ice detection using GNSS‐R data from TechDemoSat‐1. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124 (8). 5801-5810. 10.1029/2019JC015327

Publication year

2019

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Article

Authors

Srokosz, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7347-7411; Banks, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4457-0876. 2019 Salinity from space [in special issue: 1] Weather, Early View (74). 3-8. 10.1002/wea.3161

Publication year

2019

Publication type

Article

Authors

Bouffard, Jerome; Naeije, Marc; Banks, Christopher J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4457-0876; Calafat, Francisco Mir ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7474-135X; Cipollini, Paolo; Snaith, Helen M.; Webb, Erica; Hall, Amanda; Mannan, Rubinder; Féménias, Pierre; Parrinello, Tommaso. 2018 CryoSat ocean product quality status and future evolution. Advances in Space Research, 62 (6). 1549-1563. 10.1016/j.asr.2017.11.043

Publication year

2018

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Article

Authors

Cartwright, Jessica; Clarizia, Maria Paola; Cipollini, Paolo; Banks, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4457-0876; Srokosz, Meric ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7347-7411. 2018 Independent DEM of Antarctica using GNSS-R data from TechDemoSat-1. Geophysical Research Letters, 45 (12). 6117-6123. 10.1029/2018GL077429

Publication year

2018

Publication type

Article

Authors

Banks, Christopher J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4457-0876; Srokosz, Meric A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7347-7411; Cipollini, Paolo; Snaith, Helen M.; Blundell, Jeffrey R.; Gommenginger, Christine P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6941-1671; Tzortzi, Eleni. 2016 Reduced ascending/descending pass bias in SMOS salinity data demonstrated by observing westward-propagating features in the South Indian Ocean. Remote Sensing of Environment, 180. 154-163. 10.1016/j.rse.2016.02.035

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2016

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Article

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2012

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Article

Authors

Banks, C.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4457-0876; Gommenginger, C.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6941-1671; Srokosz, M.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7347-7411; Snaith, H.M.. 2012 Salinity from space: Evaluating SMOS and Aquarius against model and in situ data. In: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Munich, Germany, 22-27 Jul 2012. (Unpublished)

Publication year

2012

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Conference item

Authors

Page, S.; Hooijer, A.; Rieley, J.; Banks, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4457-0876; Hoscilo, A.. 2012 The tropical peat swamps of Southeast Asia: human impacts on biodiversity, hydrology and carbon dynamics. In: Gower, D.; Johnson, K.; Richardson, J.; Rosen, B.; Rüber, L.; Williams, S., (eds.) Biotic Evolution and Environmental Change in Southeast Asia. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 406-433, 496pp. (The Systematics Association Special Volume, 82).

Publication year

2012

Publication type

Book section

Authors

Huang, Xi; Pascal, Robin W.; Chamberlain, Katie; Banks, Christopher J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4457-0876; Mowlem, Matthew; Morgan, Hywel. 2011 A Miniature, High Precision Conductivity and Temperature Sensor System for Ocean Monitoring. IEEE Sensors Journal, 11 (12). 3246-3252. 10.1109/JSEN.2011.2149516

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2011

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Article

Authors

Page, Susan E.; Rieley, John O.; Banks, Christopher J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4457-0876. 2011 Global and regional importance of the tropical peatland carbon pool. Global Change Biology, 17 (2). 798-818. 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02279.x

Publication year

2011

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Article

Authors

Page, S.; Wust, R.; Banks, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4457-0876. 2010 Past and present carbon accumulation and loss in Southeast Asian peatlands. PAGES Newsletter, 18 (1). 25-27.

Publication year

2010

Publication type

Article

Authors

Gommenginger, C.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6941-1671; Banks, C.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4457-0876; Srokosz, M.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7347-7411; Snaith, H.M.. 2010 Observations of atmosphere-ocean freshwater input with in situ and satellite measurements of surface salinity and rain. In: Proceedings of OceanObs’09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society, Annex. Noordwijk, The Netherlands, European Space Agency, [5pp]. (ESA Special Publication, WPP-306).

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2010

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Book section

Authors

Dowdeswell, J.A.; Evans, J.; Mugford, R.; Griffiths, G.; McPhail, S.D.; Millard, N.; Stevenson, P.; Brandon, M.A.; Banks, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4457-0876; Heywood, K.J.; Price, M.R.; Dodd, P.A.; Jenkins, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9117-0616; Nicholls, K.W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-4509; Hayes, D.; Abrahamsen, E.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5924-5350; Tyler, P.A.; Bett, B.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4977-9361; Jones, D.O.B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5218-1649; Wadhams, P.; Wilkinson, J.P.; Stansfield, K.; Ackley, S.. 2008 Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and investigations of the ice–ocean interface in Antarctic and Arctic waters. Journal of Glaciology, 54 (187). 661-672. 10.3189/002214308786570773

Publication year

2008

Publication type

Article

Authors

Banks, Christopher J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4457-0876; Brandon, Mark A.; Garthwaite, Paul H.. 2006 Measurement of sea-ice draft using upward-looking ADCP on an autonomous underwater vehicle. Annals of Glaciology, 44 (1). 211-216. 10.3189/172756406781811871

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2006

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Article