B23J:
Urban Areas and Global Change II

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Galina Churkina1, Tim M Butler1, Kevin R Gurney2 and Iryna Dronova3, (1)Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany(2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States(3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Galina Churkina, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany
Co-conveners:  Tim M Butler, IASS potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, Kevin R Gurney, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States and Iryna Dronova, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Iryna Dronova, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
B23J-01
 
Attribution of Uhi Intensity for Cities in North America
Xuhui Lee1, Lei Zhao1, Ronald B Smith1 and Keith W Oleson2, (1)Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, (2)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
2:00 PM
B23J-02
 
Maximizing the Use of Satellite Thermal Infrared Data for Advancing Land Surface Temperature Analysis
Qihao Weng1, Peng Fu1 and Feng Gao2, (1)Indiana State University, Center for Urban and Environmental Change, Terre Haute, IN, United States, (2)Agricultural Research Service Beltsville, Beltsville, MD, United States
2:20 PM
B23J-03
 
Multiple satellite estimates of urban fractions and climate effects at regional scale
Gensuo Jia1, Ronghan Xu1 and Yuting He2, (1)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)The Pennsylvania State Unviersity, Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA, United States
2:35 PM
B23J-04
 
Interdisciplinary Study of Urbanization and Impacts – the Poplex 2014 Field Campaign
Son V Nghiem1, Marco Masetti2, Stefania Stevenazzi2, Marianna Bonfanti2, Alessio Conforto2, Maria Filippini3, Paolo Fabbri4, Marco Pola4, Alessandro Sorichetta5, Catherine Linard6, Paolo Pampaloni7, Simonetta Palocia7, Emanuele 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
2:50 PM
B23J-05
 
Towards understanding implications of urbanization for regional and global climate in the GFDL Earth System Modeling framework
Sergey Malyshev, GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States, Dan Li, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Elena Shevliakova, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton, NJ, United States
3:05 PM
B23J-06
 
Impact of Heat Waves on Urban Areas in the North Eastern United States
Prathap Ramamurthy, Dan Li and Elie Bou-Zeid, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
3:20 PM
B23J-07
 
Shaping the Cities of Tomorrow: Integrating Local Urban Adaptation within an Environmental Framework
Matei Georgescu, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
 
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