GC21G:
Urban Areas and Global Change IV Posters

Submit an Abstract to this Session



Session ID#: 25463

Session Description:
Urban areas have important feedbacks to Earth system processes from local to global scales. Understanding these feedbacks often 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, who develop and deploy 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 demographic dynamics, affluence, and socio-political conditions; and implications of these interactions for public policy and urban planning.
Primary Convener:  Galina Churkina, Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, United States
Conveners:  Joseph P McFadden, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, 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:  Galina Churkina, Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, United States, Erin B Wetherley, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, David Miller, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Lei Zhao, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Galina Churkina, Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, United States
Co-Organized with:
Global Environmental Change, Atmospheric Sciences, and Global Environmental Change

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • PA - Public Affairs
Index Terms:

0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
6334 Regional planning [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Intra-Urban Variability in Elemental Carbon Deposition to Tree Canopies (229821)
Tate Edward Barrett, University of North Texas, Geography and the Environment, Denton, TX, United States, Alexandra Ponette-González, University of Utah, Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Jenna E. Rindy, University of North Texas, Geography and the Environment, Denton, United States and Rebecca J Sheesley, Baylor University, Environmental Sciences, Waco, TX, United States
Gross Primary Productivity and Vegetation Light Use Efficiency of a Large Metropolitan Region based on CO2 Flux Measurements and WorldView-2 Satellite Imagery (237595)
David L Miller1, Dar A Roberts2, Keith C Clarke3, Emily B Peters4, Olaf Menzer5, Yang Lin6 and Joseph P McFadden6, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, (2)University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (4)Univ of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, United States, (5)Department of Geography, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (6)University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Effectiveness of Different Urban Heat Island Mitigation Methods and Their Regional Impacts (210203)
Ning Zhang, Nanjing University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing, China
Using local climate zone classifications to assess the influence of urban morphology on the urban heat island effect (214238)
Paula Suzanne Satcher, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States and Nathaniel A Brunsell, University of Kansas, Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, Lawrence, KS, United States
Comparing the diurnal and seasonal variabilities of atmospheric and surface urban heat islandsbased on the Beijing urban meteorological network (235895)
Shaojing Jiang1, Kaicun Wang1, Jiankai Wang2, Chunlue Zhou3, Xiaoyan WANG4 and Xuhui Lee5, (1)Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, (2)Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)Beijing Normal University, College of Global Climate Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China, (4)BNU Beijing Normal University, beijing, China, (5)Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Yale-NUIST Center on Atmospheric Environment, Nanjing, China
Multi-temporal analysis of land surface temperature in highly urbanized districts (238223)
Sinasi Kaya1, Bahadir Celik2, Elif Sertel3, Bulent Bayram4 and Dursun Zafer Seker3, (1)Istanbul Technical University, Geomatics Engineering Department, Maslak, Turkey, (2)Istanbul Technical University, İstanbul, Turkey, (3)Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, (4)Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
An Mobility Typology of US Cities (277028)
Binita KC, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Robert Stewart, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Geographic Data Science, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Anthony W King, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Investigation of Future Thermal Comforts in a Tropical Megacity Using Coupling of Energy Balance Model and Large Eddy Simulation (247053)
Takafumi Sueishi1, Meral Yucel1, Yasunobu Ashie2, Alvin Christopher Galang Varquez3, Atsushi Inagaki1, Nisrina Setyo Darmanto1, Makoto Nakayoshi4 and Manabu Kanda1, (1)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering, Tokyo, Japan, (2)National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, (3)Institute of Science Tokyo (formerly Tokyo Institute of Technology), Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering, Tokyo, Japan, (4)Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan
Future Urban Climate Projection in A Tropical Megacity Based on Global and Regional Scenarios (248255)
Nisrina Setyo Darmanto1, Alvin Christopher Galang Varquez2 and Manabu Kanda1, (1)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering, Tokyo, Japan, (2)Institute of Science Tokyo (formerly Tokyo Institute of Technology), Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering, Tokyo, Japan
Large-Eddy Simulation of the Impact of Great Garuda Project on Wind and Thermal Environment over Built-Up Area in Jakarta (248415)
Meral Yucel, Takafumi Sueishi, Atsushi Inagaki and Manabu Kanda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering, Tokyo, Japan

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