GC11E:
Urban Areas and Global Change I

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Session ID#: 32549

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 Churkina1, Erin B Wetherley2, David L Miller2 and Lei Zhao3, (1)Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, United States(2)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States(3)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Galina Churkina, Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, United States

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:

Can green roofs reduce urban heat stress in vulnerable urban communities: A coupled atmospheric and social modeling approach (226927)
Ashish Sharma, University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil Engineering, Environmental and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Sierra Woodruff, University of Notre Dame, Environmental Change Initiative, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Milan Budhathoki, University of Notre Dame, Center for Research Computing, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Alan F Hamlet, University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Harindra J.S. Fernando, University of Norte Dame, Department of Civil Engineering, Environmental and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, United States and Fei Chen, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
The dynamics of heatwave over a coastal megacity (293386)
Prathap Ramamurthy, CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States
Climates of U.S. cities in the 21st century (Invited) (211198)
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

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