B24D:
Urban Areas and Global Change III

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 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:

4:00 PM
 
Characterizing the carbon emissions of megacities
Riley M Duren1, Kevin R Gurney2, Lucy Hutyra3, Charles E Miller4, Eric A Kort5, Preeti Rao3 and Annmarie Eldering6, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
4:20 PM
 
Partitioning of Urban CO2ff Emissions By Source Sector: Results from the Influx Project
Jocelyn C Turnbull1,2, Anna Karion2,3, Colm Sweeney2,3, Timothy Newberger2,3, Scott Lehman4, Kenneth J Davis5, Thomas Lauvaux6, Natasha L Miles5, Scott Richardson5, Paul B Shepson7, Maria Obiminda L Cambaliza8, Kevin R Gurney9, Risa Patarasuk9 and James R Whetstone10, (1)GNS Science, National Isotope Centre, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NOAA Boulder, ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, United States, (5)Penn State Univ, University Park, PA, United States, (6)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (7)Purdue Univ, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (8)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (9)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (10)National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Gaithersburg, MD, United States
4:40 PM
 
High-resolution mapping of biogenic carbon fluxes to improve urban CO2 monitoring, reporting, and verification
Brady S Hardiman1, Lucy Hutyra1, Conor Gately1 and Steve M Raciti2, (1)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (2)Hofstra University, Biology, Hempstead, NY, United States
4:55 PM
 
Comparative Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Emissions across Large Urban Areas in the U.S.
Risa Patarasuk1, Kevin R Gurney1, Darragh O’Keeffe1, Yang Song1, Preeti Rao2, Jianhua Huang1 and Igor N Razlivanov1, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
5:10 PM
 
Fossil Fuel Combustion Fingerprint in High-Resolution Urban Water Vapor Isotope Measurements
Galen Gorski, Stephen P Good and Gabriel J Bowen, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
5:25 PM
 
A multifaceted approach to understanding dynamic urban processes: satellites, surveys, and censuses.
Deborah Balk1, Bryan Jones1, Mark Montgomery2 and Zhen Liu3, (1)CUNY Institute for Demographic Research, New York, NY, United States, (2)Population Council, New York, NY, United States, (3)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
5:40 PM
 
The Urban Social and Energy Use Data Embedded in Suomi-NPP VIIRS Nighttime Lights: Algorithm Overview and Status
Miguel O Roman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Eleanor C Stokes, Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, United States and Karen C Seto, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
 
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