B43I:
Urban Areas and Global Change IV

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Session ID#: 15519

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:

Reduced urban heat island with warmer climate (158948)
Anna Scott1, Darryn Waugh2 and Benjamin F Zaitchik1, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States
A large‐scale sensitivity study of urban heat islands using GFDL’s earth system model (138698)
Yaofeng Gu, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States and Dan Li, Boston University, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States
Built Expansion and Global Climate Change Drive Projected Urban Heat: Relative Magnitudes, Interactions, and Mitigation (154358)
Eric Scott Krayenhoff1, Matei Georgescu1 and Mohamed Moustaoui2, (1)Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Interactions between Cool Roofs and Urban Irrigation: Do Cooling Strategies Reduce Water Consumption in the San Francisco Bay Area? (189985)
Pouya Vahmani, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States and Andrew D Jones, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
A wedge strategy for mitigation of urban warming in future climate scenarios (191629)
Lei Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
Estimation of Anthropogenic Heat Emissions in Delhi, India and Their Role in Urban Heat Island Effect (161620)
Shweta Bhati and Manju Mohan, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, New Delhi, India
Estimated Influence of Urbanization on Surface Warming in Eastern China Using Time-varying Land Use Data (129820)
Weilin Liao, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, Dagang Wang, Sun Yat-sen University, School of Geography and Planning, Guangzhou, China, Xiaoping Liu, Sun Yat-Sen University, School of Geography and Planning, Guangzhou, China and Guiling Wang, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States
Impacts of Anthropogenic Heat on Summertime Rainfall in Beijing (139330)
Wanshu Nie1, Benjamin F Zaitchik2, Guangheng Ni3 and Ting Sun3, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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