NG31B:
Urban and Geophysical System Interactions: Did We Learn from Katrina and Other Events? II Posters

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Session ID#: 34595

Session Description:
This co-organized session will investigate the complex and bidirectional interactions between urban and geophysical systems. Urban systems with their complex mobility, energy and communications networks are a major driver of climate change, and will be crucial both for mitigation and for adaptation. At the same time, most the infrastructure and wealth is concentrated in cities. Katrina and other catastrophic events remind us that many cities are under geophysical threats potentially exacerbated by climate change. Did we really learn from from these events? How far did we shift from traditional resources and risks management to integrated environmental monitoring and responses over a wide range of space-time scales to both ongoing geophysical changes and urbanisation processes? How do we intend to increase the city’s resilience? What are the scientific deadlocks and challenges?
Primary Convener:  Daniel J M Schertzer, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées | Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Hydrology Meteorology and Complexity (HM&Co), Champs-sur-Marne, France
Conveners:  Anastasios Tsonis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, United States and Upmanu Lall, Columbia University of New York, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States
Chairs:  Daniel J M Schertzer, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées | Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Hydrology Meteorology and Complexity (HM&Co), Champs-sur-Marne, France, Anastasios Tsonis, Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego, CA, United States and Upmanu Lall, Columbia University of New York, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Anastasios Tsonis, Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4327 Resilience [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4425 Critical phenomena [NONLINEAR GEOPHYSICS]
4440 Fractals and multifractals [NONLINEAR GEOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Coupling Cellular Automata Land Use Change with Distributed Hydrologic Models (224506)
Lele Shu, The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering, University Park, PA, United States and Christopher Duffy, Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States
Multifractal resilience and viability (236621)
Ioulia Tchiguirinskaia, U. Paris Est, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, HM&Co, Marne-la-Vallee,, France and Daniel J M Schertzer, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées | Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Hydrology Meteorology and Complexity (HM&Co), Champs-sur-Marne, France
Determination of key parameters of vector multifractal vector fields (236720)
Daniel J M Schertzer, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées | Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Hydrology Meteorology and Complexity (HM&Co), Champs-sur-Marne, France and Ioulia Tchiguirinskaia, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées | Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Hydrologie Météorologie et Complexité (HM&Co), Champs-sur-Marne, France
Comparison of methods for extracting annual cycle with changing amplitude in climate science (246933)
Qimin Deng and Zuntao Fu, Peking University, Beijing, China
Waiting for a catastrophe from the eruption of Vesuvius or Phlegraean Fields volcanoes from the lack of autoregulation of the territories at risk (293422)
Flavio Dobran, GVES, Naples, Italy
Evaluation of Green Infrastructure on Peak Flow Mitigation Focusing on the Connectivity of Impervious Areas (297566)
Yongwon Seo1, Junshik Hwang2 and Youjeong Kwon2, (1)Yeungnam University, Civil Engineering, Gyeongsan, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Yeungnam University, Civil Engineering, Gyeongsan, South Korea

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