B33E:
Urban Areas and Global Change III Posters


Session ID#: 10248

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:

Analysis of Future High Temperature Region in Urban Area under Climate Change Scenarios (77980)
Chaeyeon Park1, Wookju . Jeong2, Sunyong Sung2 and Jonghoon Park2, (1)Interdisciplinary program in Landscape Architecture, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, (2)Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
Monitoring of Regional Land Surface Temperature in city by Wireless Sensing Network (58737)
Ying Wang1, Hong Jiang2 and Jiaxin Jin1, (1)Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, (2)International Institute for Earth System Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Influence of urban park on local climate based on a temperature decomposition of comparative eddy covariance measurements (65867)
Tomoya Ando and Masahito Ueyama, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Japan
Monitoring Energy and Carbon Fluxes in a Mediterranean City (71741)
Serena Marras1, Costantino Sirca1, Veronica Bellucco2, Angelo Arca3, Andrea Ventura3, Pierpaolo Duce3 and Donatella Spano4, (1)University of Sassari; CMCC, Sassari, Italy, (2)University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy, (3)CNR-Ibimet, Sassari, Italy, (4)University of Sassari, Department of Agriculture, Sassari, Italy
New Perspectives on Longwave Imaging of Urban Heat Islands: Middle Infrared to Microwaves (83494)
Geoffrey M Henebry1, Cole Krehbiel1, Baojuan Zheng1, Lan Hoang Nguyen1, Kirsten de Beurs2 and Braden Owsley2, (1)South Dakota State University, Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence, Brookings, SD, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma, Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, OK, United States
The Effects of Landcover Pattern on Urban Surface Net Radiation Retrieved by Remote Sensing (76484)
Xiaofeng Zhao, Institute of Urban Environment,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China
Impact of Reforestation on Local Climate and Environment in a Semi-arid Urban Valley, Northwestern China (71815)
Ye Yu, CAREERI/CAS Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Lanzhou, China, Jianjun He, Nankai University, College of Environmental Science & Engineering, Tianjin, China and DS Xia, Lanzhou University, College of Earth Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou, China
Comparison of different UHI mitigation strategies: the street- versus roof-level implementation (72192)
Xianxiang Li, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), Singapore, Singapore, Matei Georgescu, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States and Leslie K Norford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Architecture, Cambridge, MA, United States
Mitigating the Urban Heat Island under Climate Change through Urban Management (82132)
Lei Zhao1, Xuhui Lee2, Keith W Oleson3, Natalie M Schultz4 and Ronald B Smith4, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)Yale University, School of the Environment, New Haven, United States, (3)Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
Revisiting the Climate Impacts of Cool Roofs around the Globe Using an Earth System Model (79022)
Jiachen Zhang1, Kai Zhang2 and George A Ban-Weiss1, (1)University of Southern California, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Investigating the Effects of "Cool" Solar Reflective Pavements on California Climate (84967)
Mohammadhassan Mohegh1, George A Ban-Weiss2, Ronnen Levinson3 and Pablo Rosado3, (1)University of Southern California, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of Southern California, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
The Urban Heat Island Impact in Consideration of Spatial Pattern of Urban Landscape and Structure (85701)
Junsik Kim1, Dong Kun Lee2, Wookju . Jeong1, Sunyong Sung1 and Jonghoon Park1, (1)Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Seoul National University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural System Engineering, Seoul, South Korea
Satellite-Supported Modeling of the Relationships between Urban Heat Island and Land Use/Cover Changes (85077)
Pouya Vahmani and George A Ban-Weiss, University of Southern California, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Validation of a Fast-Response Urban Micrometeorological Model to Assess the Performance of Urban Heat Island Mitigation Strategies (61112)
Daniel Nadeau1, Pascale Girard2, Matthew Overby3, Eric Pardyjak4, Rob Stoll II4, Peter Willemsen3, Brian Bailey4 and Marc B Parlange5, (1)Laval University, Civil and Water Engineering, Quebec City, QC, Canada, (2)Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada, (3)University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, United States, (4)University of Utah, Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (5)Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
On the Single-Layer Hydraulics Model for Flows and Ventilation over Unban Areas in Stable Stratification (72224)
Chun-Ho Liu, The University of Hong Kong, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
URBANIZATION EFFECTS ON THE MICROCLIMATE OF MANAUS: A MODELING STUDY (84815)
Diego Souza, National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters - CEMADEN, São José dos Campos, Brazil, Regina Alvalá, National Centre for Natural Disasters Monitoring and Alerts (Cemaden), São José dos Campos, Brazil and Marília Guedes do Nascimento, CPTEC Center for Weather Forecasts and Climate Research, Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil
Urban Heat Islands in China Enhanced by Haze Pollution (69372)
Chang Cao1, Xuhui Lee2, Shoudong Liu1, Keith W Oleson3, Natalie M Schultz4, Wei Xiao1, Mi Zhang1 and Lei Zhao5, (1)Yale-NUIST Center on Atmospheric Environment, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, (2)Yale University, School of the Environment, New Haven, United States, (3)Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, (5)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
Numerical Study of the Wintertime Planetary Boundary Layer Development in the Urban Area of Sao Paulo - Brazil (74040)
Flavia N. D. Ribeiro1, Jacyra Soares2, Amauri P. Oliveira2, Regina Maura Miranda3 and Fei Chen4, (1)University of Sao Paulo, IAG, Sao Paulo, United States, (2)University of Sao Paulo, IAG, Sao Paulo, Brazil, (3)University Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Quantifying the Boundary-Layer Dynamics of Carbon Dioxide from A Built Environment Using A Coupled Urban Land-Atmospheric Model (60802)
Jiyun Song, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States and Zhihua Wang, Arizona State University, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Tempe, AZ, United States
Flood hazard energy in urban areas: a new integrated method for flood risk analysis in synthesizing interactions with urban boundary layer (70309)
Sun Young Park, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States and Arthur Schmidt, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States
Quantifying the Impacts of Surface Albedo on Climate Using the WRF Model (86103)
Liyi Xu1, C Adam Schlosser1, Xin Xu1, Jeremy Gregory1 and Randolph Kirchain2, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
Modeling Urban Air Quality in the Berlin-Brandenburg Region: Evaluation of a WRF-Chem Setup (78541)
Friderike Kuik1, Galina Churkina1, Tim M Butler1, Axel Lauer2 and Kathleen Anne Mar1, (1)Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere, Wessling, Germany
Effect of heat waves on VOC emissions from vegetation and urban air quality (69549)
Galina Churkina1, Friderike Kuik1, Axel Lauer2, Boris Bonn1 and Tim M Butler1, (1)Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere, Wessling, Germany
Modelling the Spatial-temporal Variation of Urban/peri-urban Forests and Their Ecosystem Services: a Case Study of North-West Sydney (85562)
Inakwu Akots Odeh and Xing Long Zou, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Geospatial Technologies and i-Tree Echo Inventory for Predicting Climate Change on Urban Environment (85912)
Shobha Sriharan1, Laren Robinson1, Nasser Ghariban1, Marcus Comar1, Batreda Pope1, Greg Frey2 and Nasser Ghariban, (1)Virginia State University, Agriculture, Petersburg, VA, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States
Influence of urbanization on radon potential in Zhongshan City in the southern China (68093)
Nanping Wang, China University of Geosciences, School of Geophysics and Information Technology, Beijing, China
Urban Development from the Perspective of Geodivesity in South Korea (71762)
Yongwon Mo, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), Dong Kun Lee, Seoul National University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural System Engineering, Seoul, South Korea and Han Kyul Heo, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
The Effects of Urbanization on China's Future Climate based on Dynamically Downscaled Projections (81368)
Oliver W Frauenfeld, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States and Liang Chen, George Mason University, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Fairfax, VA, United States
Sustainability of Smart Cities under Climate Variability and Climate Change in India (79967)
Rahul Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, Civil Engineering, Ahmedabad, India and Vimal Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Department of Civil Engineering, Gandhinagar, India
Charecterisation and Modelling Urbanisation Pattern in Sillicon Valley of India (48403)
Bharath Haridas Aithal, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Ranbir and chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure and Design Management, Kharagpur, India
The Dynamics of Cities: Assessing Scaling Relations of Past and Projected Urban Population and Infrastructure to Analyze Trajectories of Urbanization in the 21st Century (63602)
Cole Krehbiel and Geoffrey M Henebry, South Dakota State University, Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence, Brookings, SD, United States
A new framework for modeling urban land expansion in peri-urban area by combining multi-source datasets and data assimilation (69305)
Zhonghao Zhang1, Rui Xiao2 and Xin Li1,3, (1)Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China, (2)Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, (3)Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Urban expansion of major cities in the US Great Plains from 2000 to 2009 using scatterometer data (66144)
Lan Hoang Nguyen, South Dakota State University, Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence (GSCE), Brookings, SD, United States, Son V Nghiem, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Geoffrey M Henebry, South Dakota State University, Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence, Brookings, SD, United States
Study on the Characteristics and Impacts of the Spatial-temporal Urban Sprawl in Chinese Coastal Cities using Ocelet (64212)
Minmin Li1, Danny Lo Seen2 and Zengxiang Zhang1, (1)RADI Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)CIRAD Montpellier, Montpellier Cedex 05, France
A new map of circa 2010 global urban extent from Landsat data (80233)
Panshi Wang, terraPulse, Inc., North Potomac, MD, United States, Chengquan Huang, University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, James C. Tilton, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Bin Tan, Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, United States and Eric C Brown de Colstoun, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Global Bare Ground Gain in the First Decade of 21st Century from Landsat Data: the Preliminary Results on Estimation and Distribution (84839)
Qing Ying1, Peter Potapov2, Lei Wang2 and Matthew Hansen3, (1)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States

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