GC13M:
Urban Areas and Global Change III

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Session ID#: 32561

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:

A Global Characterization of Urban Heat Islands (208618)
TC Chakraborty, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States and Xuhui Lee, Yale University, School of the Environment, New Haven, CT, United States
The Effect of Tree Spacing and Size in Urban Areas: Strategies for Mitigating High Temperature in Urban Heat Islands (299349)
Rowan Berry, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, Vivek Shandas, Portland State University, Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland, United States and Yasuyo Makido, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States
Examining why Baltimore’s urban heat island decreases during heatwaves using high-resolution urban observations and simulations (300100)
Anna Scott1, Hamada S Badr2, Darryn Waugh3, Benjamin F Zaitchik1 and Wanshu Nie4, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States
Contributions to Global Augmented Compound Urban Heat Extreme (ACUTE) from Climate Change and the Urban Heat Island Effect (265519)
Kangning Huang, Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, United States
Effects of the Urban Heat Island on Aerosol pH (253912)
Michael Battaglia Jr1, Sarah Douglas2 and Christopher J Hennigan2, (1)University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
Air-quality implications of widespread adoption of cool roofs on ozone and particulate matter in southern California (282787)
George A Ban-Weiss1, Sang-Mi Lee2, Aaron S Katzenstein2, Marc Carreras-Sospedra2, Xinqiu Zhang2, Sal Farina2, Pouya Vahmani1, Philip Fine2 and Scott A Epstein2, (1)University of Southern California, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)South Coast Air Quality Management District, Diamond Bar, CA, United States
Investigating the influence of photocatalytic cool wall adoption on meteorology and air quality in the Los Angeles basin (296785)
Jiachen Zhang1, Xiaochen Tang2, Ronnen Levinson3, Hugo Destaillats4, Arash Mohegh5, Yun Li6, Wei Tao7, Junfeng Liu8 and George A Ban-Weiss6, (1)Peking University, Department of Atmosphereic and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics / College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, (6)University of Southern California, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, United States, (7)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, (8)Peking University, Beijing, China

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