B33H:
Urban Areas and Global Change II


Session ID#: 10245

Session Description:
Urban and exurban areas play an important role in local and global feedbacks to Earth system processes. Understanding these feedbacks requires expertise from different scientific fields. This session invites communities that conduct observations, use models, or compile data necessary to study biogeochemical interactions of human-land-atmosphere systems in urban and exurban areas. We encourage submissions from researchers who develop and deploy new measurement techniques and scaling methods in complex urban terrain. We welcome contributions from modeling groups that incorporate urban processes in models. Potential topics of this session include: energy budgets and greenhouse gases in urban areas; effects of urbanization on regional climate, air quality, biogeochemical cycles, and their implications for policy and urban planning.
Primary Convener:  Galina Churkina, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany
Conveners:  Diane E Pataki, University of Utah, Department of Biology, Salt Lake City, United States, Johannes J Feddema, University of Kansas, Geography, Lawrence, KS, United States and Tim M Butler, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany
Chairs:  Galina Churkina1, Diane E Pataki2, Johannes J Feddema3 and Tim M Butler1, (1)Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany(2)University of Utah, Department of Biology, Salt Lake City, United States(3)University of Kansas, Geography, Lawrence, KS, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Galina Churkina, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0315 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0493 Urban systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Dispersion and Deposition of Fine Particulates, Heavy Metals and Nitrogen in Urban Landscapes (Invited) (63726)
Thomas H Whitlow, Cornell University, Section of Horticulture, School of Integrative Plant Science, Ithaca, NY, United States, Zheming Tong, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States and Zheming Tong
Comparison of Personal PM2.5 Exposure in Various Micro-Environments during Haze and Clean Days in Nanjing (70419)
Ting Zhang, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
High Spatial Resolution Size Resolved Aerosol Observations on both the Neighborhood Scale and from a UAV in the Lowermost Boundary Layer (73284)
William Alan Harrison1, David J Lary1, Brian Nathan2 and Alec G Moore1, (1)University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
Effects of Urban Land Forcing on Local and Downwind Air Quality, a Case Study for East Asia (67762)
Tao Wei, Peking University, Beijing, China, Junfeng Liu, Peking University, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China and George A Ban-Weiss, University of Southern California, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Monitoring carbon monoxide pollution over the largest ten cities in the US using satellite observations (65584)
Baojuan Zheng1, Kirsten de Beurs2, Braden Owsley3, Cole Philip Krehbiel1 and Geoffrey M Henebry1, (1)South Dakota State University, Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence, Brookings, SD, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (3)Texas State University, Geography, San Marcos, TX, United States
Incorporating vegetation to build a comprehensive urban carbon budget (83465)
Brady S Hardiman1, Lucy Hutyra2, Jonathan A Wang3, Conor Gately4, Jackie M. Getson5 and Mark A Friedl5, (1)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (2)Boston University, Earth & Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (3)Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, United States, (4)Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States, (5)Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States
The University of Utah Urban Undertaking (U4) (Invited) (59297)
John C Lin1, Logan Mitchell2, Ryan Bares2, Daniel L Mendoza3, Benjamin Fasoli1, David R Bowling4, Maria A. Garcia5, Martin Buchert1, Diane E Pataki6, Erik Crosman3, John Horel2, Douglas Catharine1, Courtenay Strong2 and James R Ehleringer7, (1)University of Utah, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (4)University of Utah, School of Biological Sciences, Salt Lake City, United States, (5)University of Utah, Department of Biology, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (6)University of Utah, Department of Biology, Salt Lake City, United States, (7)Univ Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

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