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Chris Smith is a physical climate scientist specialising in climate projections from socioeconomic models. Chris obtained a PhD from the University of Leeds, UK, in 2016, on projecting solar energy resource in future climate scenarios. Through a background in solar energy modelling, Chris has developed expertise in radiative transfer using the SOCRATES, RFM and libRadtran codes, and has developed and run several generations of the Met Office Hadley Centre / UK Earth System Model. Chris led and contributed to several important papers analysing the radiative forcing from CMIP6 era models, leading to results that formed a critical component of the radiative forcing assessments in the 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group 1. In parallel, Chris played a key role in developing the fair simple climate model, a flexible open-source climate model emulator that was used extensively in the 2018 IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C and AR6 Working Group 1 and 3 reports as well as several high impact academic and policy reports. Chris now co-chairs the Radiative Forcing Intercomparison Project (RFMIP) for CMIP7 and is part of the scientific advisory committee for the 2025 Scenarios Forum, a member of the CMIP7 Strategic Ensemble Design Task Team and co-leads the emissions and climate working group of the Scenario Compass Initiative, along with several other projects. Chris has spent time working at the University of Leeds, the UK Met Office, and IIASA before joining bclimate as a senior scientist in November 2024.
