B42B:
Urban Areas and Global Change III

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Session ID#: 15514

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:

Seasonal Carbon Fluxes and Emissions in Forested Stands and Lawns Along an Urban to Rural Gradient Near the Cub Hill Tower, Baltimore, MD. (190413)
John Hom, US Forest Service, Newtown Square, PA, United States, Nicanor Z Saliendra, USDA ARS, Mandan, ND, United States, Prof. Rodrigo Vargas, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, United States, Matthew Sean Patterson, US Forest Service, Geospatial Technology and Applications Center (GTAC), Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Sparkle L Malone, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
Spatial and temporal variations in atmospheric temperature and humidity gradients controlled by local urban land use intensity in Boston, MA (184857)
Jonathan A Wang, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, Lucy Hutyra, Boston University, Earth & Environment, Boston, MA, United States, Dan Li, Boston University, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States and Mark A Friedl, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States
Interactions Between Urban Vegetation and Surface Urban Heat Islands: A Case Study in the Boston Metropolitan Region  (Invited) (131228)
Eli K Melaas, Boston University, Department of Earth & Environment, Boston, MA, United States, David L Miller, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, Jonathan A Wang, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States and Mark A Friedl, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States
Controlling Factors of the Surface Energy and Water Balances in cities located in cold climate regions (156727)
Leena Järvi, University of Helsinki, Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Physics, Helsinki, Finland, Sue B Grimmond, University of Reading, Meteorology, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, Andreas Christen, University of British Columbia, Geography / Atmospheric Science Program, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Joseph P McFadden, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Ian B Strachan, McGill University, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada
Anthropogenic Heat Flux Estimation from Space: Results of the first phase of the URBANFLUXES Project (187584)
Nektarios Chrysoulakis1, Mattia Marconcini2, Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry3, Sue B Grimmond4, Christian Feigenwinter5, Fredrik Lindberg6, Fabio Del Frate7, Judith Klostermann8, Zina Mitraka9, Thomas Esch10, Lucas Landier3, Andrew Mark Gabey11, Eberhard Parlow5 and Frans Olofson6, (1)Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Greece, (2)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Wessling, Germany, (3)Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere, Toulouse Cedex 9, France, (4)University of Reading, Meteorology, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, (5)University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, (6)University of Goeteborgs, Goeteborg, Sweden, (7)GEO-K s.r.l., Roma, Italy, (8)Alterra Wageningen UR, Wageningen, Netherlands, (9)Foundation for Research and Technology, Heraklion, Greece, (10)German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Land Surface, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (11)University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
Improved Carbon Flux Observations over Urban Areas Using Carbonyl Sulfide (COS) to Differentiate Contributions from Biosphere (192573)
Mary Whelan1, Brian W LaFranchi2, Ray Bambha2, Hope A Michelsen2, Marc Laurenz Fischer3, Heather D Graven4, Ian T Baker5, Thomas P Guilderson6 and J Elliott Campbell7, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Imperial College London, Physics, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (5)Colorado State University, CIRA, Fort Collins, United States, (6)University of California at Santa Clara, Santa Clara, United States, (7)University of California Merced, Merced, United States
Behavior of the main sources that contribute to ambient PM2.5 in Santiago since 1998 (148285)
Francisco Barraza1, Fabrice Lambert2, Hector Jorquera3, Ana M. Villalobos3 and Laura Gallardo4, (1)Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Geography Institute, Santiago, Chile, (2)Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Instituto de Geografia, Macul, Chile, (3)Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Departament of chemical engineering and bioprocesses, Santiago, Chile, (4)University of Chile, Department of Geophysics, Santiago, Chile

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