
Dr Chris Smith
- Position: Research Fellow
- Areas of expertise: radiative forcing; radiative transfer; climate modelling; climate change
- Email: C.J.Smith1@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: 10.05 Priestley Building
- Website: Personal homepage | Twitter | Googlescholar | Researchgate | ORCID
Profile
I joined Leeds in 2011 on the Doctoral Training Centre in Low Carbon Technologies, where I completed my PhD on the interaction of solar energy with climate change.
In 2015 I started as a Research Fellow in the School of Earth and Environment.
Research interests
I am currently working on several projects:
- SMURPHS: Determination of the causes of surge and hiatus events in climate change over the last 100 years, with particular focus given to the temperature slowdown of 1998-2012.
- RFMIP: The Radiative Forcing Model Intercomparison Project (RFMIP) will evaluate the effective radiative forcing in participating CMIP6 climate models. This will help to determine the differences in climate model responses.
- CAMS74: Investigating structural uncertainty resulting from background climatology and radiative transfer parameterisation for the radiative forcing product from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service.
- PDRMIP: Determination of forcing, rapid adjustments and feedbacks to single-forcing experiments. Also producing some of the forcing experiments using the Met Office's HadGEM2-ES climate model.
I have also helped develop the FaIR simple climate model and have created radiative kernels from the HadGEM2 climate model.
<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Any research projects I'm currently working on will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>Qualifications
- PhD Doctoral Training Centre in Low Carbon Technologies
- MMath Mathematics
Professional memberships
- American Geophysical Union
- European Geosciences Union
Research groups and institutes
- Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science
- Climate Science and Impacts