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Session Proposal: <em>Extreme weather and climate in urban areas: Physical modeling, AI/ML approaches, and digital twins for social impacts and mitigation</em> (AGU25)

A054
Extreme weather and climate in urban areas: Physical modeling, AI/ML approaches, and digital twins for social impacts and mitigation

Session ID#: 249958

Session Description:
Urban areas are increasingly vulnerable to large-scale weather events like storms, heat waves, and flooding, which pose significant risks to health, energy, infrastructure, and security. This session seeks submissions that utilize physical modeling, advanced observational techniques, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) to better understand these challenges and inform robust policy responses. The focus areas include: (i) Modeling extreme events—using physical models and AI/ML to explore the links between extreme weather, air pollution, and urbanization.; (ii) Impacts of extremes—analyzing effects of severe weather on human health, air quality, energy systems, and the urban hydrological cycle through modeling and risk analysis techniques; (iii) Strategies for mitigation and adaptation—developing physics-based and ML-informed models to tackle future climate shifts and inform urban planning; (iv) Interdisciplinary solutions—creating cross-sector modeling strategies to enhance resilience. (v) Digital twins for climate resilience—employing digital twin platforms for real-time urban condition monitoring and scenario planning, and emergency preparedness.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • GH - GeoHealth
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
1631 Land/atmosphere interactions [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3355 Regional modeling [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener:  Ashish Sharma, University of Illinois System, Discovery Partners Institute, Chicago, United States
Conveners:  Fei Chen, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States; The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Division of Environment and Sustainability, Hong Kong, China and Donald J Wuebbles, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Peiyuan Li, Arizona State University, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Tempe, United States
 
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