H33O:
Water, Energy, and Society in Urban Systems I

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Session ID#: 34241

Session Description:
Urbanization creates areas of intense hydrological and ecological modification leading to complex surface and sub-surface hydrologic flow paths and altered energy balance dynamics, infrastructure stresses, and novel ecosystem configurations. A growing body of work is characterizing urban hydrologic systems and links to society, economy, and public health. However, climate change, aging infrastructure, and substantial material fluxes modify and complicate these coupled systems. Continued inquiry and synthesis reveals unexpected interactions and impacts present in urban systems. This session invites a diversity of research associated with process, impacts, and mitigation in urban systems, with a focus on complex relationships among hydrology, ecology, climatic, energy, society, and green infrastructure approaches.
Primary Convener:  Daniel Bain, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Geology and Environmental Science, Pittsburgh, United States
Conveners:  Claire Welty, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Dept. of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering and Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, Baltimore, MD, United States, Aditi Bhaskar, Colorado State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Laura A Schifman, Environmental Protection Agency Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
Chairs:  Aditi Bhaskar, Colorado State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Valentina Prigiobbe, Stevens Institute of Technology, Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering, Union City, NJ, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Daniel Bain, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Geology and Environmental Science, Pittsburgh, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • PA - Public Affairs
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1803 Anthropogenic effects [HYDROLOGY]
1829 Groundwater hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1843 Land/atmosphere interactions [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Water Use by Urban Landscapes in Semi-Arid Environments (Invited) (209134)
Elizaveta Litvak, University of Utah, Department of Biology, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Diane E Pataki, University of Utah, Department of Biology, Salt Lake City, United States
Development of Representative Rainfall Periods for Green Infrastructure Design: Connecting the Dots Between Climate, Urban Hydrology and Resilience (243431)
Cara Melissa Albright1, Robert Traver1 and Bridget Wadzuk2, (1)Villanova University, Villanova, PA, United States, (2)Villanova University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Villanova, United States
Modeling Air Temperature/Water Temperature Relations Along a Small Mountain Stream Under Increasing Urban Influence (231539)
Emily R Fedders, William P Anderson Jr, Anthony M Hengst and Chuanhui Gu, Appalachian State University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Boone, NC, United States
How spatial and temporal rainfall variability affect runoff across basin scales: insights from field observations in the (semi-)urbanised Charlotte watershed (240208)
Marie-Claire Ten Veldhuis, Delft University of Technology, Water Management, Delft, Netherlands, James A Smith, Princeton Univ, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States and Zhengzheng Zhou, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
Rapid modification of urban land surface temperature during rainfall (228929)
Hamidreza Omidvar1, Elie Bou-Zeid1, Jiyun Song2, Jiachuan Yang3, Gilad Arwatz4, Zhihua Wang5, Marcus Hultmark6 and Kamil Kaloush2, (1)Princeton University, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (4)Princeton University, Princeton, United States, (5)Arizona State University, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Tempe, United States, (6)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
The other side of the coin: urban heat islands as shields from extreme cold (210120)
Jiachuan Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Elie Bou-Zeid, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States

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