GC12C:
Urban Areas and Global Change II

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Session ID#: 32555

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:

Tree-crown-resolving large-eddy simulation for evaluating greenery effects on urban heat environments (265291)
Keigo Matsuda, Ryo Onishi and Keiko Takahashi, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
Water conservation benefits of urban heat mitigation: can cooling strategies reduce water consumption in California? (267821)
Pouya Vahmani and Andrew D Jones, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States
Multidecadal Land Cover Change in the Los Angeles Basin and its Water Consumption Implications (282266)
Nadia Kathryn Colombi, University of California Los Angeles, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Dennis P Lettenmaier, UCLA, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States and Dr. Miriam E Marlier, PhD, Columbia University, New York, United States
Evaluating Vegetation Type Effects on Land Surface Temperature at the City Scale (227340)
Erin B Wetherley, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, Joseph P McFadden, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Dar A Roberts, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States
Associating Land Surface Temperature Retrieved From Satellite and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Data With Urban Cover and Topography in Aburrá Valley (292084)
Gisel Guzman Echavarria, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin, Medellin, Colombia and Carlos David Hoyos Ortiz, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín, Departamento de Geociencias y Medio Ambiente / Geoscience and Environment Department, Medellín, Colombia
A global analysis of the urban heat island effect based on multisensor satellite data (289952)
Jingfeng Xiao, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, Steve E Frolking, University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, Thomas E Milliman, Univ. of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space (EOS), Durham, NH, United States, Annemarie Schneider, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States and Mark A Friedl, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States

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