GC33C:
Urban Areas and Global Change I


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Session ID#: 59075

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:

A Synthesis on Four Decades of Global Urban Expansion: 1970-2010 (436074)
Burak Guneralp, Texas A&M University College Station, Geography, College Station, United States, Karen C Seto, Yale University, Yale School of the Environment, New Haven, CT, United States and Elizabeth A Wentz, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, United States
Characterizing multiple dimensions of urban change (Invited) (424794)
Eleanor Stokes, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Terrestrial Systems Lab, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Karen C Seto, Yale University, Yale School of the Environment, New Haven, CT, United States
Urban tree stress symptom detection using satellite images in Washington D.C. (347657)
Fang Fang, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, Brenden E McNeil, West Virginia University, Department of Geology and Geography, Morgantown, United States and Gregory Dahle, West Virignia University, Morgantown, United States
The influence of vegetation configuration and composition towards outdoor thermal comfort within tropical urban parks (376805)
Winston T L Chow, National University of Singapore, Geography, Singapore, Singapore, Rachel Oh, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Cybil Kho, National Parks Board, Centre for Urban Greenery and Ecology, Singapore, Singapore and Su Li Heng, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
A New Urban Ecohydrological Model to Quantify the Effect of Vegetation on Microclimate and Water Fluxes in Cities (355232)
Naika Meili1,2, Simone Fatichi3, Gabriele Manoli3, Paolo Burlando3, Matthias Roth4, Erik Velasco5, Kerry A. Nice6,7, Nigel James Tapper6, Edoardo Daly8 and Andrew M. Coutts6, (1)National University of Singapore, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Singapore, Singapore, (2)Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC), Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore, Singapore, (3)ETH Zurich, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland, (4)National Univ Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, (5)Independent Scientist, Singapore, Singapore, (6)Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, (7)University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, (8)Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Plume or bubble? The non-linear impact of an urban heat island on city-scale atmospheric circulation (Invited) (376481)
Prof. Elie Bou-Zeid, Ph.S., Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, Hamidreza Omidvar, Princeton University, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, Qi Li, Cornell University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States, Petra Maria Klein, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States and Juan Pedro Mellado, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany

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