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Session Proposal: Urban Areas and Global Change (AGU25)

GC106
Urban Areas and Global Change

Session ID#: 248763

Session Description:
Both biophysical and socioeconomic dimensions of urbanization play pivotal roles in influencing Earth system processes and human societies. Understanding these impacts across scales requires diverse methods and expertise from various scientific fields. This session invites empirical, observational, and modeling studies on the biogeochemical, biophysical, and socio-ecological interactions of urban areas with Earth systems from local to global scales. We welcome perspectives from researchers and practitioners from diverse backgrounds, e.g., from natural and social scientists to engineers and planners.    Potential topics include, but are not limited to:  • Urban water, energy, and biogeochemical cycles of the past, present, and future;  • Urban interactions with the environment (through landscapes, ecosystems, and/or atmosphere) across scales;  • Urban-induced changes in spatiotemporal patterns of energy supply and use, transportation, and/or greenhouse gas emissions;  • Food-energy-water nexus of cities; and  • Influence of socioeconomic, socio-political, and institutional dynamics on urban policy, planning, and management.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • H - Hydrology
  • SY - Science and Society
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1631 Land/atmosphere interactions [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener:  Xinchang Li, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  TC Chakraborty, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Galina Churkina, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany and Burak Guneralp, Texas A & M University, Geography, College Station, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Hang Yin, University of Guelph, School of Environmental Sciences, Guelph, Canada
 
Nested economies of scale in global city mass (1863371)
Kangning Huang, New York University Shanghai, Shanghai, China and Mingzhen Lu, New York University, New York, United States
 
Nonlinear patterns of carbon emission trajectories shaped by global urban form typology: unpacking the law of spatial directionality on urban expansion morphology and carbon emissions (1868385)
Chengwei Li, NYU SHANGHAI, Shanghai, China and ChengHe Guan, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
 
Life After Death: Diptera Diversity of Urban Cemeteries in Philadelphia, PA, USA (1868852)
Heather Kostick1, Dane Ward2 and Zachary Glass1, (1)Drexel University, Philadelphia, United States, (2)Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey, United States
 
Spatial patterns of exposure to extreme heat in Ogden, Utah. (1878213)
Daniel P Bedford, Weber State University, Ogden, UT, United States
 
Parking Lots Disproportionately Amplify Urban Heat Island across U.S. Cities (1879806)
Huidong Li1, Lin Meng2, Hiba Baroud1, TC Chakraborty3, Andrew D Jones4, Jonathan M Gilligan5 and Xuhui Lee6, (1)Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States, (2)Vanderbilt University, Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Nashville, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Vanderbilt University, Earth and Environmental Science, Nashville, TN, United States, (6)Yale University, School of the Environment, New Haven, United States
 
From Cells to Cities: Extending Kleiber’s Law from Biology to Urban Systems (1884872)
Mingzhen Lu1, Kangning Huang2, Jose Ignacio Arroyo3, Chenghao Wang4 and Chris Kempes3, (1)New York University, New York, NY, United States, (2)New York University Shanghai, Shanghai, China, (3)Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, United States, (4)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology; Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, United States
 
A multiscale model-driven experimental (ModEx) framework for urban areas – a CROCUS approach (Invited) (1887998)
Ashish Sharma1, M. Cristina Negri2, Veerabhadra Rao Kotamarthi3, Scott M Collis3, Jiali Wang4, Paytsar Muradyan3, Dev Niyogi5, Maxwell Grover6, Jason Stock7, Peiyuan Li1, Dimitrios K. Fytanidis6, Sen Wang8, Haochen Tan6, Joe Fernando9, Stephen W Nesbitt10, Alberto Martilli11, Abhinav Wadhwa1, Max B Berkelhammer12, Miquel A Gonzalez-Meler13, Ahram Cho14, Joseph Robert O'Brien6, Matthew Tuftedal4, Bhupendra Raut7, Robert L Jacob15, Jian Wang16, Jangho Lee17 and Sun Young Park18, (1)University of Illinois System, Discovery Partners Institute, Chicago, United States, (2)Argonne National Laboratory, Environmental science, Argonne, IL, United States, (3)Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, United States, (4)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, United States, (5)University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, (6)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (7)Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, United States, (8)University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, United States, (9)University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (10)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Climate, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, United States, (11)Ciemat, Madrid, Spain, (12)University of Illinois Chicago, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chicago, United States, (13)University of Illinois Chicago, Department of Biological Sciences, Chicago, United States, (14)University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Biological Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States, (15)Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, United States, (16)Washington University in St. Louis, Center for Aerosol Science and Engineering, Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, St. Louis, United States, (17)University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, (18)University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Champaign, United States
 
Managing solid waste to co-control carbon and nitrogen leakage in China (1889713)
Jingfang Zhan, Zhejiang University, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Hangzhou, China
 
Improving Comfort, Affordability, and Efficiency: Demand-Side Solutions for Heat Pump Operation in Cold Climates (1892398)
Shuhaib Nawawi, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, School for Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Parth Vaishnav, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, School for Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor, United States
 
Metabolic Rate Plasticity and Resilience to Warming in Urban Seepage Spring Invertebrates: Characterizing the Likelihood of Changing Trophic Structure and Energy Flow in Springs Responding to Warming Waters. (1895825)
Stephen E MacAvoy, American University, Department of Environmental Science, Washington, DC, United States, Daniel Fong, American University, Department of Biology, Washington, DC, United States and William Farmer, American University, Department of Biology, Washington, United States
 
The Pervasive Role of Heterogeneities in Shaping Local to Global Urban Change (1923257)
Bhartendu Pandey, PhD, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
 
Brighter nights, longer seasons: Artificial light reshapes plant phenology (Invited) (1930214)
Lin Meng, Vanderbilt University, Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Nashville, United States
 
Do Urban Forests Cool Parking Lots in Summer? Insights from Field Sensor Data (1934246)
Xiaoyue Li1, Yujuan Chen1, Ge Sun2, De'Etra Young1, Steve McNulty2, William Sutton1, Anjin Chang3 and Thomas Byl4, (1)Tennessee State University, Department of Environmental Sciences, Nashville, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Southern Research Station, Research Triangle Park, United States, (3)Tennessee State University, Department of Agricultural Sciences and Engineering, Nashville, United States, (4)United States Geological Survey, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center, Nashville, United States
 
Global Ensemble Forecasts Reveal Accelerating Urban Land-Cover Conversion and High Uncertainty (1936023)
Rakibul Ahasan1,2, Weiying Lin2 and Burak Guneralp2, (1)ESRI, Redlands, United States, (2)Texas A & M University, Geography, College Station, United States
 
Examining Race and Class Disparities in Urban Heat in Germany: Towards Environmental Justice in Urban Planning (1945945)
Jayati Chawla, Philipp Keller and Susanne Benz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
 
Healthier Cities or Cities for the Healthy? Exploring the Temporal Dynamics of Greenspace and Urban Well-being in Major East Asian Cities (1946126)
Younghoo Kim, Seoul National University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, College 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
 
Global urban-rural contrasts in vegetation amount, subtypes, structure and dynamics, modulated by background conditions (1956831)
Rohit Mukherjee, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric, Climate, and Earth Sciences Division, Richland, United States and TC Chakraborty, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric, Climate, and Earth Sciences Division, Richland, WA, United States
 
Historical Increase of Urban Wastewater Availability Impacts on River Basin Hydrology and Agricultural Development (1962969)
Mahesh Jampani, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka and Chinmay Deval, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States; The University of Alabama in Huntsville, The Lab for Applied Science, Huntsville, United States
 
Understanding Spatially Varying Urban Heat Drivers Using Explainable GeoAI In Dhaka, Bangladesh (2000935)
Maria Sultana1, Bradford Johnson1 and Md. Didarul Islam2, (1)Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (2)University of Idaho, Department of Forest, Rangeland and Fire Sciences, Moscow, United States
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