B41H:
Urban Areas and Global Change II

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Session ID#: 15509

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:

Toward a 30m resolution time series of historical global urban expansion: exploring variation in North American cities (162827)
Michelle Stuhlmacher1, Carter Wang1, Matei Georgescu1, Beth Tellman1, Robert Balling1, Nicholas E Clinton2, Lindsey Collins1, Ran Goldblatt3 and Gordon Hanson3, (1)Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Google, Mountain View, United States, (3)University of California San Diego, School of Global Policy and Strategy, La Jolla, CA, United States
Space-based monitoring of land-use/land-cover in the Upper Rio Grande Basin: An opportunity for understanding urbanization trends in a water-scarce transboundary river basin. (191776)
Stanley T Mubako1, William L Hargrove2, Josiah M Heyman2 and Carlos S Reyes2, (1)University of Texas at El Paso, Center for Environmental Resource Management, El Paso, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States
Developing a historical energy and GHG emission inventory for the New York City Metro area (Invited) (159602)
Peter J Marcotullio, CUNY Hunter College, Geography, New York, United States and Andrea p Sarznski, University of Delaware, School of Public Policy and Administration, Newark, DE, United States
Exploratory Retrospective Analysis of Power Plant Emissions in Vulnerable Communities in the United States (183292)
Juan Declet-Barreto and Mary Pham, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
Can We Make Green Bonds An Effective Tool For Urban Carbon Management? (143013)
Yoshiki Yamagata, NIES National Institute of Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan and Daisuke Murakami, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Center for Global Environmental Research, Tsukuba, Japan
THE WUDAPT PROJECT: ENGAGING A GLOBAL COMMUNITY TO MAP AND CHARACTERIZE CITIES WORLDWIDE (Invited) (143718)
Johannes J Feddema, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, Gerald Mills, University College Dublin, Geography Dept, Dublin, Ireland, Linda M See, IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria, Benjamin Bechtel, University of Hamburg, Institute of Geography, Hamburg, Germany and Jason Ching, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute for the Environment, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Future Climate Prediction of Urban Atmosphere in A Tropical Megacity: Utilization of RCP/SSP Scenarios with an Urban Growth Model (129676)
Nisrina Setyo Darmanto, Alvin Christopher Galang Varquez, Manabu Kanda and Shun Takakuwa, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering, Tokyo, Japan

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