Staff information

Biography

Steven Smith's research focuses on long-term socioeconomic scenarios and the interface between socioeconomic systems and the climate system. Dr. Smith's research interests include aerosols, non-CO2 greenhouse gases, the carbon cycle, biomass energy, energy technologies, and land-use changes. His recent research concerns the role of non-CO2 forcing agents in policy scenarios, including sulfate aerosols, black carbon, and non-CO2 greenhouse gases. Model development efforts include implementing in the MiniCAM framework emissions of non-CO2 greenhouse gases and aerosols (sulfur-dioxide and carbonaceous aerosols). At the Joint Global Change Research Institute, Smith is part of the team that has developed ObjECTS, a new object-oriented modeling framework.

Prior to joining PNNL in 1999, Dr. Smith worked with Dr. T.M.L. Wigley as a project scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and was a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Emissions Scenarios. He also has served on the Panel on Public Affairs of the American Physical Society, as well as on the Executive Committee of the APS Forum on Physics and Society.

For further information and a full list of publications: http://globalchange.umd.edu

Research Interests

• aerosols
• Non-CO2 greenhouse gases
• Carbon cycle
• Biomass energy
• Renewable energy; Energy efficiency
• Land-use changes

Education and Credentials

• Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Los Angeles

PNNL Publications

2009

• Calvin KV, JA Edmonds, B Bond-Lamberty, LE Clarke, SH Kim, GP Kyle, SJ Smith, AM Thomson, and MA Wise. 2009. "2.6: Limiting Climate Change to 450 ppm CO2 Equivalent in the 21st Century." Energy Economics 31(2):S107-S120. 
• Wise MA, KV Calvin, AM Thomson, LE Clarke, B Bond-Lamberty, RD Sands, SJ Smith, AC Janetos, and JA Edmonds. 2009. "Implications of Limiting CO2 Concentrations for Land Use and Energy." Science 324(5931):1183-1186 . 

2008

• Thomson AM, RC Izaurralde, SJ Smith, and LE Clarke. 2008. "Integrated Estimates of Global Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration." Global Environmental Change. Part A, human and policy dimens 18(1):192-203.  doi::10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2007.10.002
• Edmonds JA, LE Clarke, MA Wise, HM Pitcher, and SJ Smith. 2008. "Implications for the USA of stabilization of radiative forcing at 3.4 W/m2 ." Climate Policy 8:S76 - S92. 
• Kyle GP, LE Clarke, and SJ Smith. 2008. "The Value of Advanced Technologies in the U.S. Buildings Sector in Climate Change Mitigation." In Scaling Up: Building Tomorrow's Solutions : Proceedings from the 2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, p. 267.  ACEEE, Washington DC. 
• Van Vuuren D, M Meinshausen, GK Plattner, F Joos, KM Strassmann, SJ Smith, TM Wigley, S Raper, K Riahi, F De La Chesnaye, M Den Elzen, J Fujino, J Kejun, N Nakicenovic, S Paltsev, and JM Reilly. 2008. "Temperature increase of 21st century mitigation scenarios." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105(40):15258-15262.  doi:10.1073/pnas.0711129105
• Zhang Y, and SJ Smith. 2008. "An Evolutionary Path for Concentrating Thermal Solar Power Technologies: A New Approach for Modeling CSP Power Costs and Potential." In Proceedings of the Solar Conference: Solar 2008: Catch the Clean Energy Wave, ed. R Campbell-Howe, pp. 714-740.  American Solar Energy Society, Boulder, CO. 

2007

• Berglen T, G Myhre, I Isaksen, V Vestreng, and SJ Smith. 2007. "Sulphur trends in Europe; Are we able to model the recent observed decrease?" Tellus Series B, Chemical and Physical Meteorology 59(4):773-786.  doi:10.1111/j.1600-0889.2007.00289.x
• Edmonds JA, MA Wise, JJ Dooley, SH Kim, SJ Smith, PJ Runci, LE Clarke, EL Malone, and GM Stokes. 2007. Global Energy Technology Strategy: Addressing Climate Change Phase 2 Findings from an international Public-Private Sponsored Research Program.  Battetlle Memorial Institute, College Park, MD. 
• Gillingham K, SJ Smith, and RD Sands. 2007. "Impact of Bioenergy Crops in a Carbon Dioxide Constrained World: An Application of the MiniCAM Energy-Agriculture and Land Use Model." Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 13(7):675-701.  doi:10.1007/s11027-007-9122-5
• Kyle GP, SJ Smith, LE Clarke, SH Kim, and MA Wise. 2007. The Value of End-Use Energy Efficiency in Mitigation of U.S. Carbon Emissions. PNNL-17039, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
• Kyle GP, SJ Smith, MA Wise, JP Lurz, and D Barrie. 2007. Long-Term Modeling of Wind Energy in the United States. PNNL-16316, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
• Rong F, LE Clarke, and SJ Smith. 2007. Climate Change and the Long-Term Evolution of the U.S. Buildings Sector. PNNL-16869, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
• Wise MA, P Sinha, SJ Smith, and JP Lurz. 2007. Long-Term US Industrial Energy Use and CO2 Emissions . PNNL-17149, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
• Zhang Y, and SJ Smith. 2007. Long-Term Modeling of Solar Energy: Analysis of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) and PV Technologies . PNNL-16727, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 

2006

• Smith SJ, and JA Edmonds. 2006. "The Economic Implications of Carbon Cycle Uncertainty." Tellus Series B, Chemical and Physical Meteorology 58(5):586-590.  doi:10.1111/j.1600-0889.2006.00217.x
• Smith SJ, and TM Wigley. 2006. "Multi-Gas Forcing Stabilization with the MiniCAM." The Energy Journal (Special Issue):373-391. 
• Clarke LE, MA Wise, M Placet, RC Izaurralde, JP Lurz, SH Kim, SJ Smith, and AM Thomson. 2006. Climate Change Mitigation: An Analysis of Advanced Technology Scenarios. PNNL-16078, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
• Edmonds JA, and SJ Smith. 2006. "The Technology of Two Degrees." In Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, pp. 385-392.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 
• Kim SH, JA Edmonds, J Lurz, SJ Smith, and MA Wise. 2006. "The ObjECTS: Framework for Integrated Assessment: Hybrid Modeling of Transportation." The Energy Journal (Special Issue No. 2 2006):63. 

2005

• Smith SJ, HM Pitcher, and TM Wigley. 2005. "Future Sulfur Dioxide Emissions." Climatic Change 73(3):267-318. 
• Smith SJ. 2005. "Income and Pollutant Emissions in the ObjECTS MiniCAM Model." Journal of Environment and Development 14(1):175-196. 
• Kheshgi H, SJ Smith, and JA Edmonds. 2005. "Emissions and Atmospheric CO2 Stabilization: Long-Term Limits and Paths." Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 10(2):213-220. 
• Smith SJ, AM Thomson, NJ Rosenberg, RCC Izaurralde, RA Brown, JR, and TM Wigley. 2005. "Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA: An Integrated Assessment Part 1. Scenarios and Context." Climatic Change 69(1):7-25.  doi:10.1007/s10584-005-3614-7

2004

• Smith SJ, R Andres, E Conception , and J Lurz. 2004. Historical Sulfur Dioxide Emissions 1850-2000: Methods and Results. PNNL-14537, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
• Edmonds JA, JF Clarke, JJ Dooley, SH Kim, and SJ Smith. 2004. "Modeling Greenhouse Gas Energy Technology Responses to Climate Change." Energy 29(9-10 (Special Issue)):1529-1536 . 
• Edmonds JA, JF Clarke, JJ Dooley, SH Kim, and SJ Smith. 2004. "Stabilization of CO2 in a B2 World: Insights on The Roles of Carbon Capture and Disposal, Hydrogen, and Transportation Technologies." Energy Economics 26(4):517-537. 
• Massie ST, O Torres, and SJ Smith. 2004. " Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) observations of increases in Asian aerosol in winter from 1979 to 2000." Journal of Geophysical Research. D. (Atmospheres) 109(D18211):1 of 14.  doi:10.1029/2004JD004620

2003

• Smith SJ, TC Bond, TM Wigley, F de la Chesnaye, and HM Pitcher. 2003. "The Role of Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases and Aerosols in Climate Mitigation." In Proceedings of the 3d International Methane & Nitrous Oxide Mitigation Conference, 17-21 November 2003.  publisher unknown, Beijing, China. 
• Smith SJ. 2003. "The Evaluation of Greenhouse Gas Indices--an Editorial Comment." Climatic Change 58(3):261-265. 
• Brenkert AL, SJ Smith, SH Kim, and HM Pitcher. 2003. Model Documentation for the MiniCAM. PNNL-14337, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 

2002

• Mahasenan N, MJ Scott, and SJ Smith. 2002. "The Effect of Emissions Trading And Carbon Sequestration on The Cost Of CO2 Emissions Mitigation." In International conference on greenhouse gas technologies, vol. 2, ed. J Gale and Y Kaya, pp. 1177-1182.  Pergamon, Oxford, United Kingdom. 
• Wigley TM, SJ Smith, and M Prather. 2002. "Radiative Forcing due to Reactive Gas Emissions." Journal of Climate 15(18):2690-2696. 

2001

• Smith SJ. 2001. "Past and Future Climate Forcing." Physics and Society 30(4):none. 
• Cubasch U, G Meehl , GJ Boer, R Stouffer, M Dix, A Noda, CA Senior, S Raper, KS Yap, A Abe-Ouchi, S Brinkop, M Claussen, M Collins, J Evans, I Fischer-Bruns, G Flato, JC Fyfe, A Ganopolski, JM Gregory, ZZ Hu, F Joos, T Knutson, R Knutti, C Landsea, LO Mearns, C Milly, JF Mitchell, T Nozawa, H Paeth, J Raisanen, R Sausen, SJ Smith, T Stocker, A Timmermann, U Ulbrich, A Weaver, J Wegner, P Whetton, TM Wigley, M Winton, F Zwiers, JW Kim, and J Stone. 2001. "Projections of Future Climate Change ." Chapter 9 in Climate Change 2001: Working Group I: The Scientific Basis, ed. J.T. Houghton, et al, pp. 525-582.  Cambridge University Press, New York, NY. 
• Ehhalt D, M Prather, F Dentener, R Derwent, EJ Dlugokencky, E Holland, I Isaksen, J Katima, V Kirchhoff, P Matson, P Midgley, M Wang, T Berntsen, I Bey, G Brasseur, L Buja, WJ Collins, JS Daniel, WB DeMore, N Derek, R Dickerson, D Etheridge, J Feichter, P Fraser, R Friedl, J Fuglestvedt, M Gauss, L Grenfell, A Grubler, N Harris, D Hauglustaine, L Horowitz, C Jackman, D Jacob, L Jaegle, AK Jain, M Kanakidou, S Karlsdottir, M Ko, M Kurylo, M Lawrence, JA Logan, M Manning, D Mauzerall, J McConnell, LJ Mickley, S Montzka, JF Muller, J Olivier, K Pickering, G Pitari, GJ Roelofs, H Rogers, B Rognerud, SJ Smith, S Solomon, J Staehelin, P Steele, DS Stevenson, J Sundet, A Thompson, M van Weele, R von Kuhlmann, Y Wang, DK Weisenstein, TM Wigley, O Wild, DJ Wuebbles, R Yantosca, F Joos, and M McFarland. 2001. "Atmospheric Chemistry and Greenhouse Gases ." Chapter 4 in Climate Change 2001:Working Group I: The Scientific Basis, ed. Houghton, J. T. et al, pp. 239-288.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 
• Ramaswamy V, O Boucher, J Haigh, D Hauglustaine, J Haywood, G Myhre, T Nakajima, G Shi, S Solomon, RE Betts, R Charlson, CC Chuang, JS Daniel, AD Del Genio, J Feichter, J Fuglestvedt, PM Forster, SJ Ghan, A Jones, JT Kiehl, D Koch, C Land, J Lean, U Lohmann, K Minschwaner, JE Penner, DL Roberts, H Rodhe, GJ Roelofs, LD Rotstayn, TL Schneider, U Schumann, SE Schwartz, MD Schwartzkopf, KP Shine, SJ Smith, DS Stevenson, F Stordal, I Tegen, R van Dorland, Y Zhang, J Srinivasan, and F Joos. 2001. "Radiative Forcing of Climate Change ." Chapter 6 in Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis, ed. Houghton, J. T. et al.  Cambridge University Press, New York, NY. 

2000

• Smith SJ, TL Wigley, and JA Edmonds. 2000. " A new route toward limiting climate change?" Science 290(5494):1109-1110. 
• Nakicenovic N, J Alcamo, G Davis, B de Vries, J Fenhann, S Gaffin, K Gregory, A Grubler, TY Jung, T Kram, EL La Rovere, L Michaelis, S Mori, T Morita, W Pepper, HM Pitcher, L Price, K Riahi, A Roehrl, HH Rogner, A Sankovski, M Schlesinger, P Shukla, SJ Smith, R Swart, S van Rooijen, N Victor, and Z Dadi. 2000. Special Report on Emissions Scenarios : a special report of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change .  Cambridge University Press, New York, NY.