B13I:
Urban Areas and Global Change I Posters

Session ID#: 4456

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Not an Option (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:

 
Multi-Scale Assessment of Projected Urban Expansion in the United States (Invited) (3304)
Matei Georgescu, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States
 
Monitoring Urbanization-Related Land Cover Change on the U.S. Great Plains and Impacts on Remotely Sensed Vegetation Dynamics (8998)
Cole Krehbiel1, Trisha Jackson1 and Geoffrey M Henebry2, (1)South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, United States, (2)Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences & Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, MI, United States
 
Quantifying the modes of urban growth and identifying its drivers in Treasure Valley, Idaho. (29767)
Khila Raj Dahal, Boise State University, Boise, ID, 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
 
Automatic mapping of urban areas from Landsat data using impervious surface fraction algorithm (15552)
Son Thanh Nguyen1, Chi-Farn Chen1 and Cheng-Ru Chen2, (1)NCU National Central University of Taiwan, Jhongli, Taiwan, (2)NCU National Central University of Taiwan, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
 
Impact of an Unusual Dry Spell on the Energy Balance of a Residential Neighbourhood in a Tropical City (5009)
Erik Velasco1, Suraj Harshan2 and Matthias Roth2, (1)Independent Scientist, Singapore, Singapore, (2)National University of Singapore, Geography, Singapore, Singapore
 
Effects of Green Space and Land Use/Land Cover on Urban Heat Island in a Subtropical Mega-city in China (20125)
Guoyu Yu Qiu1, Xiangze Li2, Hongyong Li2 and Qiuping Guo2, (1)Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, School of Environment and Energy, Shenzhen, China, (2)PEKING UNIVERSITY, Xili, Nanshan, Shenzhen, China
 
Does the spatial arrangement of vegetation and anthropogenic land cover features matter? Case studies of urban warming and cooling in Phoenix and Las Vegas (20270)
Soe Win Myint1, Baojuan Zheng2, Chao Fan2, Shai Kaplan2, Anthony Brazel2, Ariane Middel3 and Martin Smith2, (1)Texas State University, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, San Marcos, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)Arizona State University, Arts, Media, and Engineering (AME), Tempe, AZ, United States
 
Different Patterns of the Urban Heat Island Intensity from Cluster Analysis (14356)
Fernanda Batista Silva and Karla Longo, INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
 
Investigation of Urban Heat Stress from Satellite Atmospheric Profiles (10564)
Leiqiu Hu, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States and Nathaniel A Brunsell, University of Kansas, Geography, Lawrence, KS, United States
 
Urban Heat Island Studies: Los Angeles Changing Climate (31732)
Tania Torres1, Freddy Hsu1, Pantiwa Jarujareet1, Steve LaDochy1, Pedro C Ramirez1 and William C Patzert2, (1)California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
What land covers are effective in mitigating a heat island in urban building rooftop? (20934)
Seungjoon Lee, Seoul National University, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South) and Youngryel Ryu, Seoul National University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
 
Parameter Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis of an Urban Surface Energy Balance Parameterization at a Tropical Suburban Site (9925)
Suraj Harshan, National University of Singapore, Geography, Singapore, Singapore, Matthias Roth, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore and Erik Velasco, Independent Scientist, Singapore, Singapore
 
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
 
Numerical experiments on the formation of urban climate under various geographical conditions (20907)
Rui Ito1, Takehiko Satomura1 and Tetsuya Takemi2, (1)Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (2)Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
 
Urban effects on regional climate: A case study in the Phoenix-Tucson Corridor (30121)
Zhao Yang1, Francina Dominguez1 and Hoshin Vijai Gupta2, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Impact of Urban Density Type in a Global Climate Model (31114)
Tianna Bogart, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD, United States
 
Seasonality of the urban heat island effect: patterns and drivers (31492)
Jason Schatz, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States and Christopher J Kucharik, University of Wisconsin Madison, Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences, Madison, United States
 
Microclimate Patterns of Residential Landscapes Across the US (28601)
Jenni Learned and Sharon J Hall, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
 
URBANIZATION EFFECTS ON MANAUS MICROCLIMATE (30246)
Diego Oliveira de Souza, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Bauru, Brazil, Marília Guedes do Nascimento, National Centre for Natural Disasters Monitoring and Alerts (Cemaden), CACHOEIRA PAULISTA, Brazil and Regina Alvalá, National Centre for Natural Disasters Monitoring and Alerts (Cemaden), São José dos Campos, Brazil
 
Characterizing the Urban Heat Island with a Dense Sensor Network (27534)
Peter K Snyder1, Tracy E Twine2, Brian V Smoliak3, Phillip Mykleby1 and William F Hertel1, (1)University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States, (2)University of Minnesota, St. Paul, United States, (3)Climate Corporation Seattle, Seattle, WA, 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
 
Optimized spectroscopic scheme for enhanced precision CO measurements with applications to urban source attribution (27245)
Anders Nottrott1, John Hoffnagle2, Alejandro Farinas2 and Chris Rella3, (1)Picarro Inc., Santa Clara, CA, United States, (2)Picarro, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, United States, (3)Picarro, Inc., Santa Clara, United States
 
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
 
Mechanisms of Air Pollution Transport in Urban Valleys as a Result of the Interplay Between the Temperature Inversion and the Urban Heat Island Effect (16791)
Angela Rendón1, Volkmar Wirth2, Juan Fernando Salazar1, Carlos A. Palacio3 and Björn Brötz2, (1)Escuela Ambiental, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia, (2)Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany, (3)University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
 
Urban Heat Island Versus Air Quality – a Numerical Modelling Study for a European City (6765)
Joachim Fallmann, Renate Forkel and Stefan Emeis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, IMK-IFU, Karlsruhe, Germany
 
Relationship between Atmospheric Pollution Processes and Atmospheric Circulation in Shanghai, China (19868)
YuXia Ma, Jun Zhang, Jing Cong and Juaihuai Wang, LZU Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
 
Consumption-based Total Suspended Particulate Matter Emissions in Jing-Jin-Ji Area of China (19776)
Siyuan Yang, Shaoqing Chen and Bin Chen, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
 
HEAT WAVES, URBAN VEGETATION, AND AIR POLLUTION (15581)
Galina Churkina1, Ruediger Grote2 and Tim M Butler1, (1)Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
 
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
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