GC018
Advancing Representation of Urban Processes and Dynamics in Models Across Scales
Session ID#: 249048
Session Description:
Cities are drivers of local environmental change and foci of adaptation and mitigation strategies. Given the dearth of urban-resolving observations, models are critical for simulating urban systems. These models, often fraught with uncertainties and crude assumptions, also allow us to examine future changes and explore hypothetical scenarios. This session invites submissions on modeling efforts, including new parameterizations, datasets, and validation, to advance the representation of coupled human–urban–Earth dynamics across scales: i.e., from large-eddy simulations to mesoscale models to Earth system models. Potential topics include (not limited to): Urban biophysical and biogeochemical processes; Urban vegetation and its spatiotemporal variability; Building energy systems, transportation energy use, and associated emissions; Urban morphology and heterogeneity; Urban air pollution and its physical and chemical interactions; Dynamic urbanization across regions; Interactions between socioeconomic processes and physical systems. We encourage submissions on process-based, data-driven, machine learning, and hybrid modeling approaches, along with their associated data products.
Co-Sponsor(s):
Index Terms:
1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1631 Land/atmosphere interactions [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3355 Regional modeling [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener: TC Chakraborty, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric, Climate, and Earth Sciences Division, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners: Scott E. Krayenhoff, University of Guelph, School of Environmental Sciences, Guelph, ON, Canada, Chenghao Wang, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology; Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, OK, United States and Keer Zhang, Princeton University, High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton, NJ, United States
Student/Early Career Convener: Yifan Cheng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States
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Robert Schoetter1, Robin Hogan2, Cyril Caliot3, Valéry Masson1, Christophe Montocchio1, Mathew Lipson4, Caroline Allouache5, Guillaume Poujol5 and Aurélie Poyet5, (1)CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, Toulouse, France, (2)ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom, (3)CNRS, UPPA, E2S, LMAP, Anglet, France, (4)Weather of the 21st Century, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, (5)Direction des Services Météorologiques, Météo-France, Toulouse, France
Building Drag Parameterization Including Anisotropy and its Coupling with the Weather Research & Forecasting Model (1867126)
Zhenghui Xie1, Yuhang Tian1, Jinbo Xie2, Binghao Jia1 and Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, (1)National Key Laboratory of Earth System Numerical Modeling and Application, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Coupling Residential Building Stock Turnover and Thermal Demand Modeling for Decarbonization and Energy Equity Analysis (1890538)
Shuhaib Nawawi, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, School for Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Parth Vaishnav, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, School for Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor, United States and Alessio Mastrucci, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna, Austria
Understanding the Influence of Urbanization on Rainfall in Sydney Using High-Resolution Modeling and Satellite Datasets (1891247)
Shankar Sharma, Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Jason Peter Evans, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia and Andy Pitman, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Remote Effects of Urbanization on Temperatures in Adjacent Cities: A Case Study in Utah (1897940)
Wei Zhang, Utah State University, Plants, Soils and Climate, Logan, United States, Hongping Gu, Utah State University, Department of Plants, Soils and Climate, Logan, United States and Robert R Gillies, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States
Probabilistic Super‑Resolution of Urban Micrometeorology via a Schrödinger Bridge Framework (1899396)
Yuki Yasuda, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Research Institute for Value-Added-Information Generation, Kanagawa, Japan, Ryo Onishi, Institute of Science Tokyo, Supercomputing Research Center, Institute of Integrated Research, Tokyo, Japan and Ryo Onishi
Quantifying Urban Morphology-Induced Uncertainty in Urban Meteorology and Heat Stress Simulations in Southern California (1902016)
Hao Hu1, Xinyi Zhang1, Dr. Cenlin He2, Ellis Fertig1, Reza Zarrin1, Soroush Esmaeili Neyestani3 and Jiachen Zhang1, (1)University of Southern California, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, United States, (2)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Southern California, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Development of an hourly machine learning model for spatially disaggregating urban moist heat stress (1911937)
Sarah Berk, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, TC Chakraborty, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Ms. Xuewei Wang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Data-Driven EnviroLab, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Angel Hsu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Data-Driven EnviroLab, Chapel Hill, United States
Influence of Urban Subsurface Conditions on Atmospheric Dynamics: A PALM Modeling Study (1912444)
Patricia Glocke1, Christopher Claus Holst2, Susanne Benz1, Pavel Krč3, Jan Geletič4 and Jaroslav Resler4, (1)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, (2)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany, (3)Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, (4)Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
Multiple sources and heterogenous canopy in a Lagrangian-stochastic dispersion model (1916036)
Eyal Fattal1, Eran Tas2, Hadas David-Saroussi1, Omri Buchman1, Ziv Klausner3 and ziv Klausner, (1)Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, (2)The Institute of Environmental Sciences, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, (3)The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
Evaluating the Impacts of Large-scale Air-source Heat Pump Adoption Through Urban-resolving Earth System Modeling (1925516)
Xinchang Li, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Lei Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States, Zhiwen Luo, Cardiff University, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff, United Kingdom, Xiaoxiong Xie, University of Plymouth, School of Art, Design and Architecture, Plymouth, United Kingdom and Keith W Oleson, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
An open-source, globally transferrable modeling framework for high-resolution urban heat and thermal comfort (1941297)
Ruth Engel1, Kenn Cartier2, Elizabeth Wesley3, Hyeji Joh4 and Eric Mackres3, (1)World Resources Institute, Los Angeles, United States, (2)World Resources Institute, Seattle, United States, (3)World Resources Institute, Washington, D. C., United States, (4)World Resources Institute, The Hague, Netherlands
Evaluating Urban Heat Mitigation Strategies through Microclimate Simulations for Doha, Qatar, under Present and Future Climate Conditions (1942387)
Omer Abedrabboh, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Environment, Doha, Qatar, Christos Fountoukis, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Environment & Energy Research Institute, Doha, Qatar, Tareq Al-Ansari, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Division of Sustainable Development, College of Science and Engineering, Doha, Qatar, Mohammed Rami Alfarra, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Doha, Qatar and Qatar Environment and Environment Research Institute - Environment Center
Evaluating the Impact of Local Climate Zone (LCZ) Classification in WRF Modelling (1945851)
Ashish Kumar Dubey, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India, Piyush Srivastava, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management, Roorkee, India and Kshama Gupta, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Urban and Regional Planning, Dehradun, India
Capturing Urban Heterogeneity at the Street Scale: A Multi-Layer Mixing-Length Turbulence Approach for Improved Urban Microclimate Modeling (1955873)
Dimitrios K. Fytanidis1, Haochen Tan1, Veerabhadra Rao Kotamarthi2, Jiali Wang3, Alberto Martilli4, Paytsar Muradyan2, Joseph Robert O'Brien1, Scott M Collis2 and M. Cristina Negri5, (1)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (2)Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, United States, (3)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, United States, (4)Ciemat, Madrid, Spain, (5)Argonne National Laboratory, Environmental science, Argonne, IL, United States
Differential Extreme Heat in Urban Cores and Newly Urbanized Areas in the U.S. (1961933)
Timothy Jiang1, Jianfeng Li1, TC Chakraborty2, Yun Qian1 and Ruby Leung3, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric, Climate, and Earth Sciences Division, Richland, WA, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States
Advancements in Monitoring Urban Tree Canopy Height Using Very High-Resolution Imagery (1961947)
Mayumi Cursino de Moura Hirye1, Fabien Wagner2, Griffin Carter3, Adugna Mullissa3,4, Stephen Hagen3 and Dr. Sassan Saatchi5, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Los Angeles, United States, (2)Ecosystem Research Team, CTrees.org, Pasadena, California, USA, Pasadena, United States, (3)CTrees, Pasadena, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Pasadena, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Urban development and adaptation effects on local climate in the lakeside city of Konstanz, Germany (1969777)
Suyeon Choi1, Eric Samakinwa2, Diana Rechid2 and Guy P Brasseur1,3, (1)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (2)Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Hamburg, Germany, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, United States
Urban land surface effects on summertime clouds and moist convection in Houston under different synoptic conditions (1976459)
Ye Liu1, Yun Qian1, Colleen Kaul2, Brian Gaudet1, Larry Berg2, Zhe Feng1, Adam Varble1, Sheng Lun Tai2, Zhao Yang2, TC Chakraborty1 and Jerome Fast2, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States
How well is the urban effect represented in DOE’s global storm resolving model? (1985773)
Yunyan Zhang1, Jishi Zhang1, Yifan Cheng2, Tianning SU1, Prata Ghosh3, Qi Tang4 and Lei Zhao2, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States, (3)LLNL, Livermore, United States, (4)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States
Quantifying Thermal Anisotropy Effects on Urban Surface Temperature Retrievals Using a Sensor View Model (1991308)
Seung-Min Lee1,2, Doo-ll Lee1 and Sang-Hyun Lee1,2, (1)Kongju National University, Atmospheric Science, Gongju, South Korea, (2)Particle Pollution Research and Management Center, Gongju, South Korea
Simplified CFD Modeling of Tree Canopy Microclimate Using Geometric Abstractions and Sensor-Calibrated Radiative Properties (1991963)
Harshin Kamal Asok, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States, Ali Ebrahimian, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Miami, United States and Arturo Segundo Leon, Florida International University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Miami, United States
