GC088
Urban Areas and Global Change
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
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