GC41G:
Urban Areas and Global Change Posters


Submit an Abstract to this Session


Session ID#: 49811

Session Description:
Urban areas have important feedbacks to Earth system processes from local to global scales. Understanding these feedbacks requires a combination of expertise from different scientific fields. This session invites submissions of new results based on observational, modeling, or data-driven studies of biogeochemical, biophysical, 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, CA, United States, Erin B Wetherley, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States and Lei Zhao, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Galina Churkina, Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, United States
Chairs:  David L Miller, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, Lei Zhao, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Galina Churkina, Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, 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
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0493 Urban systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Enhancing Growth In Green Roof Gardens With CO2 From Human Respiration Inside Buildings (437406)
Sarabeth Buckley1, Rebecca Sparks2 and Nathan G Phillips1, (1)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (2)Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States
Urban Greenhouse Gas Resource Registry for Quantifying City Emissions: A Federated Framework for Geospatial Carbon Dioxide Data Products (424464)
Tamae M Wong1, Gretchen Greene2, Raymond Plante2 and Robert Hanisch2, (1)NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, United States, (2)NIST, Gaithersburg, United States
Mapping human settlements and population density in the Democratic Republic of Congo using Landsat data (409560)
Patrick Kuburhanwa Lola Amani1, Matthew Hansen2, Peter Potapov2 and Amy Hudson Pickens2, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States
Comparison of Object and Pixel Based Classification Methods for Dynamic Land Cover Mapping with Landsat Multi-temporal Images (377718)
Ugur Alganci1, Elif Sertel2 and Sinasi Kaya1, (1)Istanbul Technical University, Geomatics Engineering Department, Maslak, Turkey, (2)Istanbul Technical University, Geomatics Engineering Department, Istanbul, Turkey
Urban Change Analysis by Using Fused Multi-Temporal Images (377407)
Sinasi Kaya1, Ugur Alganci2, Elif Sertel3 and Dursun Zafer Zafer Seker2, (1)Istanbul Technical University, Geomatics Engineering Department, Maslak, Turkey, (2)ITU, Istanbul, Turkey, (3)Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Urbanization Dynamics in the United States and India: Assessing Growth Patterns from Landsat Time-Series (364902)
Michelle Stuhlmacher1, Matei Georgescu1, Ran Goldblatt2, Sarthak Gupta3, Vishesh Gupta4 and Nicholas Clinton5, (1)Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)New Light Technologies / FEMA (CTR), Washington, DC, United States, (3)BASIS Peoria, Peoria, AZ, United States, (4)Stanford University, Stanford, United States, (5)Google Inc., Mountain View, United States
The effect of particulate mater (PM10) on sales revenue in Seoul, South Korea: A Generalized Additive Modeling approach (406038)
Heeyeun Yoon, Seoul National University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul, South Korea
Relative Impact of urban surface and anthropogenic heat flux on heat-stress and severe storm scenario in Eastern USA: Long-term WRF simulations at cloud resolving scale (365227)
Chandan Sarangi1, Yun Qian2, Leung Ruby1, Ben Yang3, Ying Liu1 and Zhe Feng1, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (3)Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Evaluation of Water Conservation Function in Xiong'an New District Based on Comprehensive Index Method (392369)
Tingting Zeng1, Adu Gong1, Yanling Chen1, Jing Li1, Yunhao Chen2 and Jianjun Wu1, (1)Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, (2)Beijing Normal University, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing, China
Unexpected air quality feedback chains from implementation of green infrastructure in urban environments: a Kansas City case study (437990)
Yuqiang Zhang, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, Dr. Jesse O Bash, Ph.D., United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27711 13 USA, Durham, United States, Shawn Jon Roselle, U.S. EPA, RTP, NC, United States, Rohit Mathur, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, Christian Hogrefe, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27711 13 USA, Research Triangle Park, United States, Angie Shatas, Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States and Tom Jacobs, Mid-America Regional Council, Kansas City, MO, United States
Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Albedo and the Responses to Canopy Fraction, Land Cover and Land Surface Temperature in the Greater Kansas City Area (460457)
Gabriel de Oliveira1, Nathaniel A Brunsell1 and Paula Suzanne Satcher2, (1)University of Kansas, Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, Lawrence, KS, United States, (2)University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States
Analysis on spatio-temporal changes in ecosystem services attributable to urbanization (401204)
Soo Jeong Lee, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), Chul-Hee Lim, Kookmin University, Department of Forestry, Environment, and Systems, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), Cholho Song, Korea University, OJEong Resilience Institute (OJERI), Seoul, South Korea and Woo-Kyun Lee, Korea University, Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Seoul, South Korea
Prevalent Vegetation Growth Enhancement in Urban Environments (347701)
Shuqing Zhao, Peking University, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China
Modeling urban energy fluxes across Los Angeles (454404)
Erin B Wetherley1, Joseph P McFadden2, Dar A Roberts3, Christina (Naomi) Tague4 and Charles Jones3, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, (2)University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States, (4)UC Santa Barbara, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, Santa Barbara, United States
Greening of the Earth Increases the Surface Urban Heat Island Intensity (344411)
Lunche Wang1, Rui Yao1, Lan Feng2, Junfang Peng1 and Guizhou Zheng1, (1)China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan, China, (2)Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Implications of cool roofs for future exposure to heat extremes in California (467831)
Pouya Vahmani and Andrew D Jones, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States
Seasonal Variations of Daytime Urban Heat Island Phenomenon over the Tropical Cities of India (390396)
Vinayak Nitin Bhanage and Shirish S Gedam, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering, Mumbai, India
Utilizing NASA Earth Observations to Assess Urban Heat Island Reduction Strategies in Washoe County, Nevada (415262)
Mariah Danielle Heck1, Julia Heslin2, John Dialesandro2 and Chenxi Lin3, (1)NASA DEVELOP Program - SSAI, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)NASA DEVELOP Program - SSAI, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States, (3)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, Saint Paul, United States
Analysis of Land Surface Temperature Over Urban Landcover Types Using Satellite Remote Sensing and Ground-Based applications (443792)
Makini Valentine1, Justine Ginchereau1, Hamidreza Norouzi2, Christopher A Beale1 and Reginald Blake3, (1)CUNY New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (2)New York City College of Technology, City University of New York, Brooklyn, United States, (3)New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, United States
Comparing and Downscaling of Satellite Land Surface Temperature Data over Urban and Suburban Environments. (449587)
Abdou Rachid Bah1, Anna Frances Vaculik2, Hamid Norouzi3, Christopher Andrew Beale4, Zahra Sharifnezhadazizi5 and Reginald Blake1, (1)CUNY New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, United States, (2)CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (3)New York City College of Technology, City University of New York, Brooklyn, United States, (4)CUNY New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (5)CUNY City College of New York, Civil Engineering Department, New York, United States
Effects of urban surface morphology on directional radiative temperature (357300)
Leiqiu Hu, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Atmospheric Science, Huntsville, AL, United States
What does a carbon law mean for the world's megacities? (446184)
Michael Ian Westphal, World Resources Institute, Washington, DC, United States and Christopher Kennedy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Influence of environmental characteristics on pedestrians’ emotion in shopping districts- An electroencephalography and global positioning system experiments (377005)
Yunwon Choi, Seoul National University, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South) and Heeyeun Yoon, Seoul National University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul, South Korea

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