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
Effects of Complexity in Floor Reflectance on Carbon and Water Fluxes in an Urban Park
Hyungsuk Kimm1, Youngryel Ryu1, Hideki Koayashi2, Keunmin Lee3, Je-woo Hong3 and Jinkyu Hong3, (1)Seoul National University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, (2)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Department of Environmental Geochemical Cycle Research, Yokohama, Japan, (3)Yonsei University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seoul, South Korea
Urban Extent Mapping Using Object-Based Texture Classification and Landsat Data
Panshi Wang1, Chengquan Huang1, James C. Tilton2, Bin Tan2,3, Eric C Brown de Colstoun2, Robert Edward Wolfe2, Jacqueline T. Phillips2,4 and Pui Yu Ling1, (1)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, MD, United States, (4)USRA Goddard Earth Science Technology & Research, Greenbelt, United States
IMPACTS OF LAND USE CHANGE ON ENERGY USAGE AND GHG EMISSIONS
Indumathi Jeyachandran1, Ludger Eltrop2, Till Jenssen3 and Sheetal Dattatraya Marathe2, (1)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, (3)Ministry of Environment, Stuttgart, Germany
Urban Heat Island Studies: Los Angeles Changing Climate
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
URBANIZATION EFFECTS ON MANAUS MICROCLIMATE
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
The NSF-RCN Urban Heat Island Network
Tracy E Twine1, Peter K Snyder1, Patrick Hamilton2, Marshall Shepherd3 and Brian Stone Jr.4, (1)University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States, (2)Science Museum of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, United States, (3)The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, (4)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.
Andreas Christen1, Rick Ketler1, Joseph Lee1, Zoran Nesic2, Luitgard Schwendenmann3 and Caitlin Semmens1, (1)University of British Columbia, Geography, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)University of British Columbia, Biometeorology Group, Faculty Land and Food Systems, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (3)University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Continuous measurement of carbon black in a densely populated area of Mexico City
Oscar Peralta1, Abraham Ortinez2, Telma Castro3, Maria de la Luz Espinoza1, Isabel Saavedra1, Giovanni Alberto Carabali-Sandoval Sr1, Victor H Páramo2, Arturo Gavilán2 and Amparo Martínez-Arroyo2, (1)UNAM National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, (2)Instituto Nacional de Ecología y Cambio Climático, Mexico City, Mexico, (3)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Watershed scale chloride storage across a gradient of urbanization
Christopher C Wellen, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Claire J Oswald, Ryerson University, Department of Geography, Toronto, ON, Canada and Stephen Kayode Oni, SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden; Trent University, Department of Geography, Peterborough, ON, Canada