B32D
Urban Areas and Global Change I

Wednesday, 16 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
2004 (Moscone West)
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
10:20
B32D-01
The World Meteorological Organization Focus on Urban Issues (72216)
Deon Etienne Terblanche, World Meteorological Organization, Research, Geneva, Switzerland
10:40
B32D-02
Urban Area Monitoring using MODIS Time Series Data (81643)
Sudipta Sarkar1,2, Sadashiva Devadiga1,2 and Edward Mauoka1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States
10:55
B32D-03
Modeling of Urban Heat Island at Global Scale (64955)
Binita KC and Matthias Ruth, Northeastern University, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Boston, MA, United States
11:10
B32D-04
Urban vegetation and thermal patterns following city growth in different socio-economic contexts (76922)
Iryna Dronova1, Nicholas Clinton2, Jun Yang3, John Radke1, Spencer S Marx1 and Peng Gong3, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, United States, (3)Tsinghua University, Center for Earth System Science, Beijing, China
11:30
B32D-05
Seasonal Co-Variation in Surface Properties and the Urban Heat Island in Boston (64511)
Leah Cheek and Mark A Friedl, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
11:45
B32D-06
Role of snow cover on urban heat island intensity investigated by urban canopy model with snow effects (76395)
Tomonori Sato, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
12:00
B32D-07
Analytical simulation and inversion of dynamic urban land surface effects (69139)
Peter Bayer1, Jaime Rivera1, Philipp Blum2, Daniel Schweizer3 and Ladislaus Rybach1, (1)ETH Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Applied Geosciences, Karlsruhe, Germany, (3)ETH Zurich, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland
 
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