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Noah Smith

Postgraduate

 nds211@exeter.ac.uk


Overview

Noah is a PhD student in the Exeter Climate Systems group, supervised by Sarah Chadburn and Iain Hartley.

His project is entitled: “The potential for a major release of methane from thawing permafrost in the Arctic”, which aims to better model rapid-thaw and sub-grid scale processes such as thermokarst. The aim is to incorporate these processes into JULES (the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator), and use the result to address and quantify the uncertainty in methane production from this carbon rich and rapidly changing landscape. So far, a sub-grid tiling scheme with snow redistribution and lateral flows of water and heat has been constructed within JULES, which is currently undergoing testing, more info here.

Previously, Noah has undertaken a MSci at Imperial College London, during which he completed a project entitled "Nanothermodyamics and Brownian motors" with Angus MacKinnon, a PGCE at Kings College London, and taught secondary and A-level science and Physics at a school in South London.

See also: decarboniseheating.uk for decarbonisation advocacy.

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Publications

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2024

  • Smith N. (2024) Modelling permafrost peat plateau thaw and potential methane release.

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