GC090
Urban Areas and Global Change

Session ID#: 75507

Session Description:
Urban areas have important feedbacks to Earth system processes from local to global scales. Understanding these feedbacks requires combined 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 spatiotemporal patterns of carbon emissions. We encourage submissions from researchers who develop and deploy new measurement and scaling methods in complex urban environments and from social scientists, engineers and modeling groups that incorporate urban processes in models. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: energy budgets and greenhouse gases in urban areas; effects of urbanization on regional climate, air quality, water cycling, and biogeochemical cycles; influence of demographic dynamics, affluence, and socio-political conditions; and implications of these interactions for public policy and urban planning.
Co-Organized:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
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:  Joseph P McFadden, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Conveners:  Galina Churkina, Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, United States, Burak Guneralp, Texas A & M University, Geography, College Station, TX, United States and Lei Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Joseph P McFadden, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
 
The Economic Value of Environmental Amenities in Zillow Neighborhoods (488712)
Jonathan Holt, Durham, NC, United States and Mark E Borsuk, Duke University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, NC, United States
 
The urban-rural contrast of heat stress in a global earth system model (511502)
Dan Li, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States and Weilin Liao, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
 
High soil organic carbon stocks under impervious surfaces contributed by urban deep cultural layers (512928)
Jeehwan Bae, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South) and Youngryel Ryu, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
 
Analysis of Surface Urbat Heat Island of Prague (513985)
Michal Zak, Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Atmospheric Physics, Prague, Czech Republic, Filip Chudoba, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Pavel Zahradníček, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Alexandru Dumitrescu, National Meteorological Administration, Bucharest, Romania
 
Statistical characteristics of the morphological parameters of Chinese cites and the application in WRF model (514676)
Ning Zhang and Yong SUN Sr., Nanjing University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing, China
 
Impacts of Adopting Solar Reflective Cool Surfaces on Climate and Air Pollution from Urban to Global Scales (519956)
Jiachen Zhang1, Yun Li1, Ronnen Levinson2, Junfeng Liu3, Mohammadhassan Mohegh4,5, Wei Tao6, Kai Zhang7 and George A Ban-Weiss1, (1)University of Southern California, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Peking University, Beijing, China, (4)University of Southern California, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)George Washington University, Public Health, Washington, DC, United States, (6)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Multiphase Chemistry Department, Mainz, Germany, (7)Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, United States
 
Impact of heat waves on intra-urban thermal heterogeneity (529460)
Anamika Shreevastava, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Saiprasanth Bhalachandran, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Palo Alto, CA, United States, Prathap Ramamurthy, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States and P. Suresh Rao, Purdue University, Civil engineering, West Lafayette, IN, United States
 
Quantification of the positive feedback impacts of anthropogenic heat on urban air temperature and air conditioning energy demand in an Asian megacity (529627)
Yukihiro Kikegawa, Meisei University, Tokyo, Japan, Yukitaka Ohashi, Okayama University of Science, Okayama, Japan, Yuya Takane, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan and Tomohiko Ihara, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
 
Monitoring seasonal variation of individual tree structures in an urban park using terrestrial laser scanning (532277)
Yorum Hwang, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South) and Youngryel Ryu, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
 
Buildings as a global carbon sink (536838)
Galina Churkina1, Alan Organschi2,3, Christopher Reyer4, Kira Vinke4, Andrew Ruff3, Zhu Liu5, Barbara Reck6, Thomas Graedel6 and John Schellnhuber4, (1)Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, United States, (2)Yale University, School of Architecture, New Haven, United States, (3)Gray Organschi Architecture, New Haven, United States, (4)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, (5)Tsinghua University, Department of Earth System Science, Beijing, China, (6)Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, United States
 
Transport process of chemically reactive pollutant over idealised urban areas (538153)
Zhangquan Wu and Chun-Ho Liu, The University of Hong Kong, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
 
Spatial variability of public health vulnerabilities: Interactions between climate, the built environment, and social determinants of health (538371)
Elizabeth J Wesley1, Nathaniel A Brunsell2 and Dave A Rahn1, (1)University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States, (2)University of Kansas, Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, Lawrence, KS, United States
 
Subway booming and obesity: Evidence from China (539234)
Chenghan Xiao, Sichuan University, West China School of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Chengdu, China, Guangqing Chi, The Pennsylvania State University, State college, United States and Yang Yang, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
 
Hyper-local source apportionment for GHGs and air pollutants: Utilizing mobile platforms and engaging urban stakeholders (548347)
Logan Mitchell1, Derek Vincent Mallia1, Benjamin Fasoli1, Lewis Kunik1, Ryan Bares1, Daniel L Mendoza2, Alexander Jacques1, Tammy Thompson3 and John C Lin1, (1)University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)Environmental Defense Fund Boulder, Boulder, United States
 
Background environment influences urban impact on precipitation: Long-term WRF simulations at cloud resolving scale over eastern USA (549335)
Chandan Sarangi1, Yun Qian1, Leung Ruby1, Ben Yang2, Ying Liu1 and Zhe Feng1, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
 
People Move, Populations Grow, and Cities Expand: Understanding Dynamics of Urban Expansion in 200 Capital Cities to Inform the 2030 Urban Development Agenda (552575)
Mariano Gonzalez-Roglich1, Alex Ivan Zvoleff1, Monica Noon2, Brendan McAndrew3, Stephanie Schollaert Uz4, Lahouari Bounoua5 and Argyro Kavvada6, (1)Conservation International, Arlington, VA, United States, (2)Conservation International, Washington, United States, (3)Jung-Li, Taiwan, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)NASA Headquarters/ Booz Allen Hamilton, Washington, DC, United States
 
Towards developing targeted climate strategies for large urban agglomerations (578779)
Prathap Ramamurthy, CUNY City College of New York, Mechanical Engineering, New York, NY, United States, Tarendra Lakhankar, NOAA-CREST, The City College of New York, CUNY, New York, NY, United States, Adrian Pena, CUNY City College, ESE, New York, United States, Abdou Rachid Bah, City University of New York, Graduate Center, New York, NY, United States and Hamidreza Norouzi, CUNY New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY, United States
 
Going beyond carbon to understand biogeochemical and biophysical climate forcings of forested, agricultural, and residential land cover in a suburbanizing landscape (582815)
Alexandra Contosta, Elizabeth Burakowski, Mark J Ducey, Serita D Frey, Scott V Ollinger, Andrew Ouimette, Rebecca Sanders-DeMott and Ruth K Varner, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
 
Joint assimilation of socio-economic and atmospheric measurements to constrain greenhouse gas emissions across urban landscapes (589788)
Thomas Lauvaux1, Kevin R Gurney2, Kimberly L Mueller3, Xinxin Ye4, Michel Ramonet1, Michel Grutter5, Samya Pinheiro6, Jose Agustin Garcia-Reynoso7, Philippe Ciais1, Jinghui Lian1, Gregoire Broquet1, Masahide Nishihashi8, Yukio Terao9, Kenneth J Davis10, Scott Richardson11, Natasha Miles12, Riley M Duren13 and Tomohiro Oda14, (1)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)University of Michigan EWRE, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, (5)UNAM, Atmospheric Science Center, Mexico D.F., Mexico, (6)Aria do brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (7)UNAM National Autonomous University of Mexico, Coyoacan, DF, Mexico, (8)Meteorological Research Instit, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, (9)Natl Inst for Environ Studies, Tsukuba, Japan, (10)The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States, (11)Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, United States, (12)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (13)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (14)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Validation of Downscaled Satellite Land Surface Temperature in Urban Areas using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and In-situ Applications (605900)
Makini Valentine1, Justine Ginchereau1, Kirk Xavier Barclay1, Abdou Rachid Bah2, Hamid Norouzi3 and Reginald Blake1, (1)CUNY New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (2)City University of New York, Graduate Center, New York, NY, United States, (3)New York City College of Technology, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY, United States
 
Mapping global urban change for 25+ years with space-borne microwave scatterometry (610815)
Steve E Frolking, University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, NH, United States and Thomas E Milliman, Univ. of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space (EOS), Durham, NH, United States
 
Global Spatial Urban Expansion Scenarios Consistent with the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) (610988)
Jing Gao, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States and Brian O'Neill, University of Denver, Denver, CO, United States
 
Neighborhood- Level Lead Speciation and Distribution in Akron, Ohio. (613591)
Nicholas Santoro, Kent State University Kent Campus, Geosciences, Kent, OH, United States and David M Singer, Kent State University Kent Campus, Kent, OH, United States
 
Crime and Light in Urban Areas: An Earth Observation Approach to Understanding Societal Processes (617130)
Anthony Campbell1, Eleanor C Stokes2, Ranjay Man Shrestha3, Karen C Seto1, Miguel O Roman2, Zhousen Wang2 and Virginia L. Kalb2, (1)Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Urban Growth and its Relationship with Severe Weather Conditions over the Metropolitan Area of São Paulo (MASP) – Brazil. (620731)
Edmilson Dias de Freitas, IAG Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Andréia Bender, Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais, São José dos Campos, Brazil and Luiz Machado, INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
 
Study of Methane Emission at a California Landfill using a Multi-Tiered Measurement System (627026)
Matthias Falk, Xiaochi Zhou, Yanju Chen, Steve L Mara, Jorn Herner and Abhilash Vijayan, California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board, Sacramento, CA, United States
 
Investigations of the internal variability in the urban heat island in San Jose, California (628890)
Reese Noel Hann, Andrew J Oliphant and Sara A Baguskas, San Francisco State University, Geography & Environment, San Francisco, CA, United States
 
Machine Learning Predicting of Ozone Concentration based on Surface Observed Meteorological and Vegetation Conditions (500099)
Austin Dixon1, Ann Podleski2, Nichole Gosselin3, Vasit Sagan4 and Jayashree Balakrishna2, (1)Harris-Stowe University, Kansas City, MO, United States, (2)Harris-Stowe State University, St. Louis, MO, United States, (3)Saint Louis University, Saint Charles, MO, United States, (4)Saint Louis University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, St. Louis, MO, United States
 
A city-scale lumped energy and moisture coupled Model (505133)
Zixuan Wang1, Yuguo Li1 and Pak-Wai Chan2, (1)The University of Hong Kong, Mechanical Engineering, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (2)Hong Kong Observatory, Kowloon, Hong Kong
 
Contemporary Evolution of Urban Expansion in China and Its Effects 506182 (Invited) (506182)
Shuqing Zhao, Peking University, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Projections of Global Urban Heat Waves Empowered by Machine Learning (509027)
Zhonghua Zheng1, Keith W Oleson2, Nicole Riemer3 and Lei Zhao1, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States
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