GC088
Urban Areas and Global Change

Session ID#: 157474

Session Description:
Urban areas have important feedbacks to Earth system processes all all scales (local to global). Understanding these feedbacks requires combined expertise from diverse scientific fields. This session invites submissions of new results based on observational, modeling, and/or data-driven AI/ML studies of biogeochemical, biophysical, hydrological, 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 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 local and 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, urban planning, and sustainable and resilient development.
Co-Organized:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

1631 Land/atmosphere interactions [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4329 Sustainable development [NATURAL HAZARDS]


Primary Convener:  Lei Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
Conveners:  TC Chakraborty, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Galina Churkina, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany and Burak Guneralp, Texas A & M University, Geography, College Station, United States
 
Overview of Urbanization Impact on Regional Climate and Extreme Weather (Invited) (1053944)
Yun Qian, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, TC Chakraborty, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Jiali Wang, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, United States, Haochen Tan, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, Jianfeng Li, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, United States, Dan Li, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, Cenlin He, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Chandan Sarangi, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Department of Civil Engineering, Chennai, India, Fei Chen, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States and L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Richland, WA, United States
 
Impact of Global Warming and Urbanization on Inhabitants of Worldwide Megacities (1057766)
Do Ngoc Khanh, Alvin Christopher Galang Varquez and Manabu Kanda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering, Tokyo, Japan
 
Big data analytics for urban global change research (Invited) (1060522)
Alessandro Ossola, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
 
Investigating the Direct and Indirect Impacts of Global Urban Expansion on Future Climate Using a Dynamic Urban Scheme (1067098)
Keer Zhang, Yale University, School of the Environment, New Haven, CT, United States, Bowen Fang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States, Keith W Oleson, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Lei Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States and Xuhui Lee, Yale University, School of the Environment, New Haven, United States
 
Impact of Urban Surface on Regional Hydrometeorology Simulation (1071106)
Jiachuan Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Qi Li, Cornell University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States, Long Yang, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China and Dev Niyogi, University of Texas Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
 
Quantifying Long-Term Changes in Urban Land Cover Using Historical and Present-Day Aerial Imagery, with Implications for the Urban Microclimate (1073841)
Heather Kropp, Hamilton College, Environmental Studies, Clinton, NY, United States and B.R. Erick Peirson, Fiddler Labs, San Francisco, United States
 
Investigate the Spatiotemporal Impacts of Urban Morphology on Land Surface Temperature (1079235)
Haoran Hou1,2, Zhihua Wang1 and Hongbo Su3, (1)Arizona State University, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Tempe, United States, (2)Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Water Cycle & Related Land Surface Processes, Beijing, China, (3)Florida Atlantic University, Civil, Environmental & Geomatics Engineering, Boca Raton, United States
 
Impacts of Urbanization on Local to Global Land Surface Warming According to High-resolution Satellite Observations (1080077)
Decheng Zhou1, Jingfeng Xiao2, Steve E Frolking3, Liangxia Zhang4 and Guoyi Zhou1, (1)Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, (2)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, United States, (4)Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China
 
Black Carbon in Urban Soils: A Global Synthesis (1081500)
Molly Burke, University of North Texas, Geography and the Environment, Denton, United States, Alexandra Ponette-González, University of North Texas, Geography and the Environment, Denton, TX, United States and Erika Marin-Spiotta, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geography, Madison, WI, United States
 
Systematic Assessment of Planting Shrubs in Urban Roadside Ecosystem as Carbon Sink (1083416)
Minseop Jeong, Kyung Hee University, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Yongin, Korea, Republic of (South) and Gayoung Yoo, Kyung Hee University, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Yongin, South Korea
 
A Single-Layer Urban Canopy Model with Transmissive Radiation Exchange between Trees and Street Canyons (1084322)
Chenghao Wang, Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, United States, Zhihua Wang, Arizona State University, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Tempe, United States and Young-hee Ryu, POSTECH, Division of Environmental Science and Engineering, Pohang, South Korea
 
Investigating Urban Signatures to Monsoon Modification over the National Capital Region (NCR), Delhi (1084462)
Jerin Benny Chalakkal and Manju Mohan, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, New Delhi, India
 
Urban Soil Carbon Density and Its Tendency Over Time in Different Urban Land-Use Types in Korea (1085101)
Jeongmin Lee1, Hyungsub Kim2, Gwang-Jung Kim1, Byeonggil Choi3, Jun young Jung4, Choonsig Kim3, Kye-Han Lee4 and Yowhan Son5, (1)Korea University, Department of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Korea University, Institute of Life Science and Natural Resources Research, Seoul, South Korea, (3)Gyeongsang National University, Department of Forest Convergence Science, Jinju, South Korea, (4)Chonnam National University, Department of Forestry, Institute of Agricultural Science & Technology, Gwangju, South Korea, (5)Korea University, Department of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Seoul, South Korea
 
Assessment of Groundwater Vulnerability Using GIS-based Modified DRASTIC (DRASTIC-L) Model over Urban and Peri-urban Landscape of an Indian Megacity, Kolkata (1086034)
Kazi Hamidul Islam1, Reshmi DAS1 and Dhrubajyoti Samanta2, (1)Jadavpur University, School of Environmental Studies, Kolkata, India, (2)Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
 
Southern versus Northern Hemisphere Coastal City Surface Temperature difference in Summertime (1087530)
Dyutisree Halder, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India and Rahul Dev Garg, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Department of Civil Engineering, Roorkee, India
 
Impact of BIPV window on building energy consumption and urban microclimate: Model development and sensitivity analysis (1088359)
Liutao Chen, Xing Zheng and Jiachuan Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
 
Comparison of Surface, Canopy, and Human-perceived Urban Heat Islands in China (1088943)
Hui Zhang, Sun Yat-sen University, School of Geography and Planning, Guangzhou, China and Ming Luo, Sun Yat-Sen University, School of Geography and Planning, Guangzhou, China
 
Uneven biodiversity sampling across redlined urban areas in the United States (1090480)
Diego Ellis-Soto, Yale University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, New Haven, United States, Melissa Chapman, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Dexter H Locke, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Baltimore Field Station, Baltimore, United States
 
Using Machine Learning Approach to Predict Urban Canopy Flows for Urban Land Surface Modeling (1092252)
Yanle Lu, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Xuhui Zhou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States, Heng Xiao, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Qi Li, Cornell University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States
 
Impacts of Subsurface Urban Heat Islands on Civil Infrastructure (1095258)
Alessandro Rotta Loria, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States
 
Investigating diurnal variations of surface urban heat island at neighborhood and city scales with land surface temperature data from ECOSTRESS and GOES-R (1098067)
Jingfeng Xiao, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, Yue Chang, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xian, China, Xuxiang Li, Xi'an Jiaotong university, Xi'an, China, Decheng Zhou, Damariscotta, ME, United States; Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China and Yiping Wu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Xi'an, China
 
Direct and indirect carbon losses from urban redevelopment: An overlooked soil carbon stocks and fluxes in the construction sector (1099160)
Jeehwan Bae, Kyung Hee University, Department of Applied Environmental Science, Yongin, Korea, Republic of (South) and Gayoung Yoo, Kyung Hee University, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Yongin, South Korea
 
Characterizing of atmospheric heat islands in two canopy layers: urban and building (1102702)
MinGyun Cho and Chan Park, University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
 
Urban areas characterisation using a synergistic perspective – reanalysis datasets + EO data + models – the HARMONIA vision. (1106473)
Gerardo Lopez Saldana1, Alex Cornelius2, Nicola Pounder3, Mikko Strahlendorff4, Giovanni Barbotti5 and Josephine Mahony3, (1)Assimila, Guildford, United Kingdom, (2)Assimila, Reading, Berkshire, UNITED KINGDOM, (3)Assimila, Reading, United Kingdom, (4)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (5)Polimi, Department of Architecture, Built Environment, Construction, Milan, Italy
 
Evolving Urban Thermal Climate over Indian Cities (1120110)
Soumya Satyakanta Sethi, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, School of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India and Velu Vinoj, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, School of Earth Ocean and Climate Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India
 
Urban Microclimates in Action! High resolution temperature and humidity differences across diverse urban terrain (1120938)
Steven Schultze1, Jade Martin1 and Katie West2, (1)University of South Alabama, Earth Sciences, Mobile, United States, (2)University of South Alabama, Earth Sciences & Psychology, Mobile, United States
 
Gene-Expression Programming to Predict the Urban Heat Island in Washington, DC from Biophysical Parameters Derived from Landsat Images. (1127679)
Neha Ramanna, Parisa Heidary and Leila Farhadi, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States
 
Exploring the Role of Urbanization and Wind on the Distribution of Extreme Rainfall by Utilizing High Spatiotemporal Radar Rainfall Product: A Dallas Fort-Worth Case Study (1127699)
Junaid Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States and Jessica Abbie Eisma, University of Texas at Arlington, Civil Engineering, Arlington, TX, United States
 
Urban Form and Black Carbon Removal by City Trees: Spatial Modeling to Enhance Urban Forest Planning (1128295)
Evan Elderbrock1, Alexandra Ponette-González2, Jenna E. Rindy3, Jun-Hak Lee1, Kathleen C Weathers4 and Yekang Ko1, (1)University of Oregon, School of Architecture & Environment, Eugene, OR, United States, (2)University of North Texas, Geography and the Environment, Denton, TX, United States, (3)University of North Texas, Geography and the Environment, Denton, United States, (4)Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, United States
 
Computational Analysis of Wind-borne Debris Distribution Incurred by Building Wind (1133348)
Sungsu Lee, Chungbuk National University, School of Civil Engineering, Cheongju, South Korea and Jeongah Um, Chungbuk National University, Department of Disaster Prevention Engineering, Cheongju, South Korea
 
Computational Assessment of Building Wind Effects in Urban Region (1133689)
Jeongah Um, Chungbuk National University, Department of Disaster Prevention Engineering, Cheongju, South Korea and Sungsu Lee, Chungbuk National University, School of Civil Engineering, Cheongju, South Korea
 
Global Analysis of the Impact of Land Cover and Structure on Urban Heat (1134819)
Marzie Naserikia, University of New South Wales, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Melissa Hart, Univ of New South Wales, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia and Negin Nazarian, University of New South Wales, Climate-Resilient Cities lab, School of Built Environment, Sydney, Australia
 
Quantification of Urban and Regional Effects on the Temperature Changes over a Tropical Eastern Indian City (1137538)
Nandini G and Velu Vinoj, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, School of Earth Ocean and Climate Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India
 
Identification of Urban Green Hotspots: Systematic Approach to Improve the Urban Carbon Uptake (1140538)
Inhye Seo, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, Gayoung Yoo, Kyung Hee University, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Yongin, South Korea, Sujong Jeong, Seoul National University, Department of Environmental Planning, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul, South Korea, Jungho Im, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Urban and Environmental Engineering, Ulsan, South Korea and Jae-Pil Park, NARA SPACE TECHNOLOGY, Pusan, South Korea
 
Future Trends of frequency and duration of heat waves across Urban India using CMIP6 bias corrected data (1145517)
Saswat Dash1, Santonu Goswami1, Hemadri Bhusan Amat1, Koteswararao Kundeti2 and Harini Nagendra1, (1)Azim Premji University, Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability, Bangalore, India, (2)Civil Aviation Authority of Qatar (QCAA), Qatar Meteorology Department, Doha, Qatar
 
Landcover and Albedo Impacts on Urban Surface Temperature Across Seven United States Cities: Towards Optimal Climate-Sensitive Design (1150880)
Ian A Smith, Boston University, Earth & Environment, Boston, United States, Lucy Hutyra, Boston University, Earth & Environment, Boston, MA, United States and M. Patricia Fabian, Boston University, Environmental Health, Boston, United States
 
Using Machine Learning to Predict Urban Climate Mitigation Performance (1151858)
Angel Hsu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Xuewei Wang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
 
Modeling the impact of the urbanization on the Indian Summer Monsoon precipitation extremes (1155064)
Renaud Falga, Laboratoire d'Aérologie - Observatoire Midi Pyrénées, Toulouse, France and Chien Wang, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE IMPACT OF URBAN CANOPIES AND ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS ON HEAT ISLAND EFFECT IN AN INDUSTRIAL AREA: A CASE STUDY OF ANGUL-TALCHER REGION IN INDIA (1156439)
Vivek Kumar Singh1, Shweta Bhati2 and Manju Mohan2, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, New Delhi, India
 
Impacts of SARS-CoV-2 variants on mobility and air pollution in the United Kingdom (1159095)
Cammy Acosta Ramirez, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69, United Kingdom and Jonathan E Higham, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
 
Understanding Observed Climate Change and Urbanization Temperature Shifts in South Texas (1166814)
Paola Granados, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Jacob Tindan, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Victoria Garza, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, Cheryl S Harrison, Louisiana State University, Department of Ocean and Coastal Science, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Joshua Coupe, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, United States
 
Monitoring urban CO2 emissions from space: insights from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) mission (1169564)
Abhishek Chatterjee1, Matthäus Kiel2, Robert R Nelson3, Dien Wu4, Dustin Roten5, Alexandre Danjou6, Ruixue Lei7, Thomas P Kurosu3, Sudhanshu Pandey8, Joshua Laughner1, Thomas Taylor9, John C Lin5, Junjie Liu1, Paul O Wennberg10, Thomas Lauvaux11, Sha Feng12, Tomohiro Oda13, Christopher O'Dell14, Vivienne Payne3, Gary D Spiers15 and OCO-3 Local & Urban Science Team, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (6)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (7)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, United States, (8)Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (10)California Institute of Technology, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Pasadena, United States, (11)University of Reims-Champagne Ardenne, GSMA, Reims, France, (12)The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, (13)Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States, (14)Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (15)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
 
Designing the Urban Surface With Water, Trees and Benign Urban Fabrics to Cool the Urban Heat Island (1171347)
Theodore A Endreny, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, United States
 
Data-Driven Decision-Support Tool for Water Neutral Urban Development at Different Scales (1173647)
Pepe Puchol-Salort1, Stanislava Boskovic Dr2, Barnaby Dobson3, Maarten Reeuwijk, van2, Ana Mijic3 and Jennifer Whyte2, (1)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (3)Imperial College London, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, United Kingdom
 
Zonal perspective on spatio-temporal land use change In India through landscape metrics (1189396)
Ravi Verma1, Joanna Zawadzka2 and P.K. Garg1, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Department of Civil Engineering, Roorkee, India, (2)Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom
 
Conservation Conflict Between Breeding Bird Richness and Housing Disturbance in the Conterminous United States: A Multiscale Assessment (1189996)
Emma Lather1, Kathleen Anne Carroll1, Amanda Carlson2, David Helmers2, Miranda Mockrin3, Volker Radeloff2 and Anna Michle Pidgeon4, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, United States, (3)USDA Forest Service, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)University of Wisconsin Madison, Forestry and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, WI, United States
 
Various approaches to consider spatio-temporally varying anthropogenic heat emissions in a regional climate model (1190237)
Alvin Christopher Galang Varquez1, Do Ngoc Khanh2, I Dewa Gede Agung Junnaedhi2 and Manabu Kanda2, (1)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (2)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering, Tokyo, Japan
 
Assessment of Health Vulnerability due to Urban Heat Islands effect in Major Metropolitan Cities in Nepal (1190764)
Nabin K Malakar, Worcester State University, Worcester, MA, United States
 
Winter Rain, Surface Icing, and Urban Transportation Hazards: Using Weather Station Data and Traffic Networks to Map Evolving Icing Hazards and Travel Risks in Anchorage, Alaska (1190990)
Matthew Berman1, Rachel Roberts2, Jennifer Schmidt1 and Peter Bieniek3, (1)University of Alaska Anchorage, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Anchorage, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Spatiotemporal Variability of Heavy Metals among Urban Riparian Zone Sediments (1193035)
Megan Holland and Tim P Duval, University of Toronto Mississauga, Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment, Mississauga, ON, Canada
 
Projections of extreme humid heat for global cities at 10 km resolution (1197494)
Peter Kalmus, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Anamika Shreevastava, Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States, Glynn C Hulley, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Ayesha Ekanayaka, University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati, United States and Emily Lei Kang, University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati, OH, United States
 
Assessing the impacts of building morphology on urban evapotranspiration (1198403)
Xinxin Sui, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Zong-Liang Yang, Univ Texas Austin, Austin, United States and Dev Niyogi, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States