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
Effects of Complexity in Floor Reflectance on Carbon and Water Fluxes in an Urban Park (21042)
Hyungsuk Kimm1, Youngryel Ryu2, Hideki Kobayashi3, Keunmin Lee4, Je-woo Hong5 and Jinkyu Hong4, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Urbana, United States, (2)Seoul National University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (3)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Department of Environmental Geochemical Cycle Research, Yokohama, Japan, (4)Yonsei University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seoul, South Korea, (5)Yonsei University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
Urban Extent Mapping Using Object-Based Texture Classification and Landsat Data (19393)
Panshi Wang1, Chengquan Huang2, James C. Tilton3, Bin Tan4,5, Eric C Brown de Colstoun6, Robert Edward Wolfe5, Jacqueline T. Phillips6,7 and Pui Yu Ling1, (1)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)USRA Goddard Earth Science Technology & Research, Greenbelt, United States
Improvement of land surface - atmosphere interactions in a WRF/Urban modeling system for Indianapolis, IN (28529)
Daniel P Sarmiento, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Kenneth J Davis, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, Thomas Lauvaux, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, Natasha L Miles, Penn State Univ, University Park, PA, United States and Scott Richardson, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States
The NSF-RCN Urban Heat Island Network (25227)
Tracy E Twine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, United States, Peter K Snyder, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States, Patrick Hamilton, Science Museum of Minnesota, Marine On St. Croix, MN, United States, Marshall Shepherd, The University of Georgia, Athens, United States and Brian Stone Jr., Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States
Seasonal variations in δ13C and δ18O of atmospheric CO2 measured in the urban boundary layer over Vancouver, Canada in relation to fuel emissions. (26011)
Andreas Christen1, Rick Ketler2, Joseph Lee2, Zoran Nesic3, Luitgard Schwendenmann4 and Caitlin Semmens2, (1)University of British Columbia, Geography / Atmospheric Science Program, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)University of British Columbia, Geography, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (3)University of British Columbia, Biometeorology Group, Faculty Land and Food Systems, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (4)University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Continuous measurement of carbon black in a densely populated area of Mexico City (18337)
Oscar Peralta1, Abraham Ortinez2, Telma Castro3, Maria de la Luz Espinoza1, Isabel Saavedra1, Giovanni Alberto Carabali-Sandoval Sr1, Victor H Páramo4, Arturo Gavilán4 and Amparo Martínez-Arroyo4, (1)UNAM National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, (2)National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change, Mexico City, Mexico, (3)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, (4)Instituto Nacional de Ecología y Cambio Climático, Mexico City, Mexico
Watershed scale chloride storage across a gradient of urbanization (31705)
Christopher C Wellen, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Claire J Oswald, Ryerson University, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Toronto, ON, Canada and Stephen Kayode Oni, SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden; Trent University, Department of Geography, Peterborough, Canada