B13I:
Urban Areas and Global Change I Posters

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 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:

 
Multi-Scale Assessment of Projected Urban Expansion in the United States
Matei Georgescu, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
 
Monitoring Urbanization-Related Land Cover Change on the U.S. Great Plains and Impacts on Remotely Sensed Vegetation Dynamics
Cole Philip Krehbiel, Trisha Jackson and Geoffrey M Henebry, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, United States
 
Quantifying the modes of urban growth and identifying its drivers in Treasure Valley, Idaho.
Khila Raj Dahal, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States
 
Urban Landscape Metrics for Climate and Sustainability Assessments
Ferdouz V Cochran, University of Kansas, Geography, Lawrence, KS, United States and Nathaniel A Brunsell, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 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
 
Automatic mapping of urban areas from Landsat data using impervious surface fraction algorithm
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
 
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
 
Impact of an Unusual Dry Spell on the Energy Balance of a Residential Neighbourhood in a Tropical City
Erik Velasco1, Suraj Harshan2 and Matthias Roth2, (1)Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), 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
Guo Yu Qiu, Xiangze Li, Hongyong Li and Qiuping Guo, 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
Soe Win Myint, Baojuan Zheng, Chao Fan, Shai Kaplan, Anthony Brazel, Ariane Middel and Martin Smith, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
 
Different Patterns of the Urban Heat Island Intensity from Cluster Analysis
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
Leiqiu Hu and Nathaniel A Brunsell, University of Kansas, Geography, Lawrence, KS, United States
 
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
 
What land covers are effective in mitigating a heat island in urban building rooftop?
SeungJoon Lee, Seoul National University, Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, Seoul, South Korea and Youngryel Ryu, Seoul National University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, Seoul, South Korea
 
Parameter Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis of an Urban Surface Energy Balance Parameterization at a Tropical Suburban Site
Suraj Harshan, National University of Singapore, Geography, Singapore, Singapore, Matthias Roth, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore and Erik Velasco, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), Singapore, Singapore
 
Improvement of land surface - atmosphere interactions in a WRF/Urban modeling system for Indianapolis, IN
Daniel P Sarmiento1, Kenneth J Davis1, Thomas Lauvaux1, Natasha L Miles2 and Scott Richardson2, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Penn State Univ, University Park, PA, United States
 
Numerical experiments on the formation of urban climate under various geographical conditions
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
Zhao Yang, Francina Dominguez and Hoshin Vijai Gupta, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Impact of Urban Density Type in a Global Climate Model
Tianna Bogart, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD, United States
 
Seasonality of the urban heat island effect: patterns and drivers
Jason Schatz, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States and Christopher J Kucharik, Univ Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
 
Effects of Non-Uniform Wall Heating on Thermal and Momentum Fields in a 3-Dimensional Urban Environment
Negin Nazarian, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States and Jan P Kleissl, Univ of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
 
Effects of Urban Morphology on Intra-Urban Temperature Differences: Two Squares in Glasgow City Centre
Patricia Regina Chaves Drach, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, PROURB, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Rohinton Emmanuel, Glasgow Caledonian University, SEBE, Glasgow, United Kingdom
 
Microclimate Patterns of Residential Landscapes Across the US
Jenni Learned and Sharon J Hall, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 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
 
Characterizing the Urban Heat Island with a Dense Sensor Network
Peter K Snyder1, Tracy E Twine1, Brian V Smoliak2, Phillip Mykleby1 and William F Hertel1, (1)University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States, (2)Climate Corporation Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
 
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
 
Optimized spectroscopic scheme for enhanced precision CO measurements with applications to urban source attribution
Anders Nottrott1, John Hoffnagle2, Alejandro Farinas2 and Chris Rella1, (1)Picarro Inc., Santa Clara, CA, United States, (2)Picarro, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, United States
 
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
 
Air Quality, Energy Budget, and Offset Policy in South Africa’s Low-Income Settlements
Scott P Hersey1, Stuart Piketh2 and Roelof Burger2, (1)North-West University, Geography and Environmental Management, Mahikeng, South Africa, (2)North-West University, Geography and Environmental Management, Potchefstroom, South Africa
 
Air Quality and Population Exposure in Urban Areas: Potential Co-Benefits of Alternative Strategies
Urszula Mikolajczyk1, Peter Suppan1, Renate Forkel1 and Martin Williams2, (1)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, IMK-IFU, Karlsruhe, Germany, (2)King’s College London, Environmental Research Group, London, United Kingdom
 
Mechanisms of Air Pollution Transport in Urban Valleys as a Result of the Interplay Between the Temperature Inversion and the Urban Heat Island Effect
Angela Rendón1, Volkmar Wirth2, Juan Fernando Salazar1, Carlos A. Palacio1 and Björn Brötz2, (1)University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia, (2)Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
 
Urban Heat Island Versus Air Quality – a Numerical Modelling Study for a European City
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
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
Siyuan Yang, Shaoqing Chen and Bin Chen, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
 
HEAT WAVES, URBAN VEGETATION, AND AIR POLLUTION
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
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
 
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