B23J:
Urban Areas and Global Change II

Session ID#: 2864

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
2006 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Galina Churkina1, Tim M Butler1, Kevin R Gurney2 and Iryna Dronova3, (1)Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany(2)Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, United States(3)University of California Berkeley, Depts. of Environmental Science, Policy & Management and Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Convener:  Galina Churkina, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany
Co-conveners:  Tim M Butler, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany, Kevin R Gurney, Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, United States and Iryna Dronova, University of California Berkeley, Depts. of Environmental Science, Policy & Management and Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Berkeley, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Iryna Dronova, University of California Berkeley, Depts. of Environmental Science, Policy & Management and Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Berkeley, CA, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0493 Urban systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1631 Land/atmosphere interactions [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

B23J-01
Attribution of Uhi Intensity for Cities in North America (Invited) (4588)
Xuhui Lee, Yale University, School of the Environment, New Haven, CT, United States, Lei Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, Ronald B Smith, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States and Keith W Oleson, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
B23J-02
Maximizing the Use of Satellite Thermal Infrared Data for Advancing Land Surface Temperature Analysis (Invited) (5352)
Qihao Weng, Indiana State University, Center for Urban and Environmental Change, Terre Haute, United States, Peng Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States and Feng Gao, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, United States
B23J-03
Multiple satellite estimates of urban fractions and climate effects at regional scale (19650)
Gensuo Jia1, Ronghan Xu1, Yuting He2 and START TEA Earth Observation of Climate Change, (1)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)The Pennsylvania State Unviersity, Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA, United States
B23J-04
Interdisciplinary Study of Urbanization and Impacts – the Poplex 2014 Field Campaign (9905)
Son V Nghiem1, Marco Masetti2, Stefania Stevenazzi2, Marianna Bonfanti2, Alessio Conforto2, Maria Filippini3, Paolo Fabbri4, Marco Pola4, Alessandro Sorichetta5, Catherine Linard6, Paolo Pampaloni7, Simonetta Paloscia7, Emanuele Santi Santi7, Filippo Catani8 and Gregory Neumann1, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra “Ardito Desio”, Milan, Italy, (3)Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, BiGeA Department, Bologna, Italy, (4)Università degli Studi di Padova, Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Padova, Italy, (5)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (6)Free University of Brussells, Geography, Brusells, Belgium, (7)National Research Council (IFAC-CNR), Institute of Applied Physics, Firenze, Italy, (8)University of Firenze, Department of Earth Sciences, Firenze, Italy
B23J-05
Towards understanding implications of urbanization for regional and global climate in the GFDL Earth System Modeling framework (26366)
Sergey Malyshev, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States, Dan Li, Boston University, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States and Elena Shevliakova, NOAA / Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States
B23J-06
Impact of Heat Waves on Urban Areas in the North Eastern United States (16916)
Prathap Ramamurthy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Dan Li, Boston University, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States and Prof. Elie Bou-Zeid, Ph.S., Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
B23J-07
Shaping the Cities of Tomorrow: Integrating Local Urban Adaptation within an Environmental Framework (Invited) (4004)
Matei Georgescu, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States
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