Primary Conveners: Galina Churkina, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany
Conveners: Diane E Pataki, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 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, Salt Lake City, UT, United States(3)University of Kansas, Geography, Lawrence, KS, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Galina Churkina, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany
Monitoring Energy and Carbon Fluxes in a Mediterranean City (71741)
Serena Marras1, Costantino Sirca1, Veronica Bellucco2, Angelo Arca3, Andrea Ventura3, Pierpaolo Duce3 and Donatella Spano2, (1)University of Sassari; CMCC, Sassari, Italy, (2)University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy, (3)CNR-Ibimet, Sassari, Italy
New Perspectives on Longwave Imaging of Urban Heat Islands: Middle Infrared to Microwaves (83494)
Geoffrey M Henebry1, Cole Philip 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
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 II5, Peter Willemsen3, Brian Bailey4 and Marc B Parlange6, (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)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (6)Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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 Island Characteristics Of Istanbul (82800)
Simge Irem Bilgen1, Yurdanur Sezginer Unal1, Cemre Yürük1, Nur Göktepe1, Deniz Hazel Diren1, Sema Topçu1, Caner Güney2 and Ahmet Ozgur Doğru2, (1)Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Department of Meteorological Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey, (2)Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Geomatics Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey
Geospatial Technologies and i-Tree Echo Inventory for Predicting Climate Change on Urban Environment (85912)
Shobha Sriharan1, Laren Robinson2, Nasser Ghariban2, Marcus Comar2, Batreda Pope2, Greg Frey3 and Nasser Ghariban, (1)Virginia State University, Agriculture, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Virginia State University, Agriculture, Petersburg, VA, United States, (3)USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States
A new map of circa 2010 global urban extent from Landsat data (80233)
Panshi Wang1, Chengquan Huang1, James C. Tilton2, Bin Tan3 and Eric C Brown de Colstoun2, (1)University of Maryland, Department of 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