Urban areas have important feedbacks to Earth system processes from local to global scales. Understanding these feedbacks requires combined expertise from diverse fields. This session invites submissions of new results based on observational, modeling, and/or data-driven studies of biogeochemical, biophysical, hydrological, or ecological interactions of human-land-atmosphere systems in urban areas; and of socio-technological components affecting the spatiotemporal patterns of carbon emissions. We encourage submissions from natural and social scientists, engineers, and modeling groups that incorporate urban processes in various models and from researchers who develop and deploy new measurement and scaling methods in complex urban environments. Potential topics include but are not limited to: energy budgets and greenhouse gases in urban areas; urban microclimates; urban hydroclimatology; effects of urbanization on 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, urban planning, and sustainable development.

• A - Atmospheric Sciences
• B - Biogeosciences
• H - Hydrology

• AMS: American Meteorological Society -
• ASPRS: American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing -
• EGU: European Geosciences Union -
• WCRP: World Climate Research Programme -