B33H:
Urban Areas and Global Change I Posters

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Session ID#: 12846

Session Description:
Urban areas have important feedbacks to Earth system processes from local to global scales. Understanding these feedbacks requires a combination of expertise from different scientific fields. This session invites submissions of new results based on observational, experimental, modeling, or data-analysis studies of biogeochemical or ecological interactions of human-land-atmosphere systems in urban areas; and of socio-institutional and technological components affecting the spatial and temporal patterns of carbon emissions. We encourage submissions from researchers using new measurement techniques and scaling methods in complex urban environments; and from social scientists, engineers and modeling groups that incorporate urban processes in models. Potential topics of this session include, but are not limited to: energy budgets and greenhouse gases in urban areas; effects of urbanization on regional climate, air quality, and biogeochemical cycles; influence of demographics, affluence, and socio-political conditions; and implications of these interactions for public policy and urban planning.
Primary Convener:  Galina Churkina, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany
Conveners:  Joseph P McFadden, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Patricia Romero-Lankao, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States and Tim M Butler, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany
Chairs:  Joseph P McFadden1, Galina Churkina2, Patricia Romero-Lankao3 and Tim M Butler2, (1)University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States(2)Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany(3)National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Tim M Butler, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany
Co-Organized with:
Global Environmental Change, Atmospheric Sciences, and Global Environmental Change

Cross-Listed:
  • PA - Public Affairs

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0493 Urban systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
6334 Regional planning [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Urban Typologies: Towards an ORNL Urban Information System (UrbIS) (161955)
Binita KC1, Anthony W King2, Alexandre Sorokine3, Michael Cameron Crow1, Ranjeet Devarakonda1, Nathan L Hilbert1, Rajasekar Karthik3, Dilip Patlolla3 and Sujithkumar Surendran Nair1, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Improving input data for urban canopy and land surface models: sensitivity analysis of land cover data products (177527)
Stephen R. Shaffer, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Quantifying Urban Vegetation Type Fractions Using Signal Unmixing with Airborne Spectroscopic Imagery (135439)
Erin B Wetherley, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, Dar A Roberts, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Joseph P McFadden, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Estimating Urban Gross Primary Productivity at High Spatial Resolution (136177)
David L Miller, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, Dar A Roberts, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Joseph P McFadden, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
An Improved Method for NPP Estimation in Wuhan, China (138020)
Lunche Wang, China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan, China and Lan Feng, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Urban CO2 modeling with open geodata toward global carbon mapping (140294)
Daisuke Murakami and Yoshiki Yamagata, NIES National Institute of Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan
Improving urban change maps for the conterminous United States from 1992 to 2011 by disaggregating roads from the National Land Cover Dataset (141456)
Christopher E Soulard, US Geological Survey, Western Geographic Science Center, Menlo Park, United States and William Acevedo, US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States
An evaluation of commercial NDIR sensors for a potential use in future urban GHG monitoring systems (141542)
Emmanuel Arzoumanian1, Ana Bastos2, Bakhram Gaynullin3, Hans H Martin3, Linus Hjern3, Olivier Laurent1 and Felix R Vogel1, (1)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (2)Leipzig University, Institute for Earth System Science and Remote Sensing, Leipzig, Germany, (3)SenseAir AB, Delsbo, Sweden
Demonstration of Resolving Urban Problems by Applying Smart Technology. (183419)
Yeji Kim, Busan Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning, Busan, Korea, Republic of (South)
Impact of urban regions on the surface energy and water partitioning over east North America (142967)
Gemechu Fanta Garuma, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada and Laxmi Sushama, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada
Identifying Population Vulnerable to Extreme Heat Events in San Jose, California. (166368)
Ana Lucrecia Rivera, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States
Urbanization and Access Inequality to Collective Consumption Goods & Services related to Sanitation & Solid Waste in the cities of Sao Paulo State, Brazil (199195)
Carla de Almeida Roig1, Flavia da Fonseca Feitosa2 and Antonio Miguel Vieira Monteiro1,3, (1)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Earth Systems Science Center, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (2)Federal University of ABC, Center for Engineering, Modeling and Applied Social Sciences (CECS), Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, (3)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Image Processing Division, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
Study of Spatial Variability of Air Temperature by Means of Remote Sensing Data and Weather Stations in Urban Areas: A Case Study for Campinas - São Paulo, Brazil. (166479)
Luiza Marchezan Bezerra1, ANA Maria HEUMINSKI DE Avila1, Vania Rosa Pereira1, Renata Ribeiro do Valle Gonçalves2 and Priscila Pereira Coltri2, (1)UNICAMP State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, (2)UNICAMP State University of Campinas, Centre for Meteorological and Climatological Researches in Agriculture - CEPAGRI, Campinas, Brazil
Simulation of urbanization effect on East China regional climate using a WRF/SSIB/URBAN model (152702)
Jiping Quan, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States; Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States; University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Zhenxin Liu, IAP Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Keith W Oleson, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, Boulder, CO, United States
Introduction to Global Urban Climatology (127811)
Alvin Christopher Galang Varquez1, Manabu Kanda2, Natsumi Kawano3, Nisrina Setyo Darmanto2 and Yue Dong4, (1)Institute of Science Tokyo (formerly Tokyo Institute of Technology), Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering, Tokyo, Japan, (2)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering, Tokyo, Japan, (3)Center for Environmental Science in Saitama, Kazo, Japan, (4)University of Colorado, CIRES, Boulder, United States
Global distribution of urban parameters derived from high-resolution global datasets for weather modelling (128172)
Natsumi Kawano1, Alvin Christopher Galang Varquez2, Yue Dong3 and Manabu Kanda2, (1)Center for Environmental Science in Saitama, Kazo, Japan, (2)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering, Tokyo, Japan, (3)University of Colorado, CIRES, Boulder, United States
1-km Global Anthropogenic Heat Flux Database for Urban Climate Studies (128014)
Yue Dong1, Alvin Christopher Galang Varquez2 and Manabu Kanda2, (1)University of Colorado, CIRES, Boulder, United States, (2)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering, Tokyo, Japan
Numerical Studies of Thermal Conditions in Cities - Systematic Model Simulations of Idealized Urban Domains (150890)
Vera Heene, Saskia Buchholz and Meinolf Kossmann, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Offenbach am Main, Germany
Simulations of the Montreal urban heat island (174920)
François Roberge, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada and Laxmi Sushama, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada
Experimental Studies on the Effects of Green Space and Evapotranspiration on Urban Heat Island in a Subtropical Megacity in China (155940)
Zhendong Zou1, Guoyu Yu Qiu2, Xiangze Li2, Hongyong Li2, Qiuping Guo2, Chunhua Yan1 and Shenglin Tan2, (1)Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China, (2)Peking University, Beijing, China
Minimizing Surface Exposure to Climate Extremity in Coastal Megacities by Structure Remodelling using Integral Geographic Information System: Lessons from Greater Mumbai Metropolitan (199649)
Abhinav Tiwari, National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India
Impact of Thermal Inertia on Urban Climatology: A Case Study of Delhi (162804)
Shivesh Berwal1, Dinesh Kumar2, Vinay Pratap Singh1, Alok K Pandey1 and Krishan Kumar1, (1)Jawaharlal Nehru University, School of Environmental Sciences, New Delhi, India, (2)Central University of Jammu, Department of Environmental Sciences, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Low-CO2 Acid-Base Binders Made with Fly Ash (136246)
Sinan T Erdogan, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
The impact of traffic emissions on air quality in the Berlin-Brandenburg region – a case study on cycling scenarios (130193)
Friderike Kuik1, Axel Lauer2, Erika von Schneidemesser1 and Tim M Butler1, (1)Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany, (2)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Quantification of Methane and Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Wastewater Collection Systems (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA) (136303)
Anastasia E Fries1, Amy Townsend-Small1, William Shuster2 and Laura A Schifman3, (1)University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati, OH, United States, (2)USEPA, Cincinnati, United States, (3)Environmental Protection Agency Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
Electrochemical Analysis of Heavy Metal Contaminants in Plant Matter  (191257)
Charlette J Burghard, Dean B Atkinson and Xijing Zhu, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States
Potential Impacts of Urban Land Expansion on Asian Outflows of Air Pollutants (168668)
Tao Wei1, Junfeng Liu2, Shu Tao2 and George A Ban-Weiss3, (1)Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)Peking University, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)University of Southern California, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Equivalent Black Carbon measurements and spectral analysis of absorption coefficient during a biomass burning episode in the city of Bogotá, Colombia. (197573)
Miguel Quirama, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia and Ricardo Morales, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
Fuel regulation in inland navigation: reduced soil black carbon and PAH deposition in river valleys (178568)
Melanie Braun1, Lorenz Schwark2, Wulf Amelung1 and Eva Lehndorff3, (1)University of Bonn, Institute of Crop Sciences and Resource Conservation, Bonn, Germany, (2)University of Kiel, Marine Science, Kiel, Germany, (3)University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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