H113
Urban Heat, Vegetation, and Water Dynamics: New Insights and Implications for Management and Equity in Heterogeneous Landscapes
Session ID#: 160118
Session Description:
As cities worldwide grow and redevelop, the threats of water security and reliability and extreme heat become increasingly urgent to understand and manage, especially under climate change. Intensified heterogeneity of increasingly developed urban landscapes alters biophysical processes that govern heat and water cycles. Historical policies of disinvestment and segregation engender inequitable exposure to environmental health risks posed by these altered feedbacks between heat and water dynamics. Quantifying heat-water-vegetation relationships in urban landscapes is thus critical to adapt and manage cities for equitable human and environmental health.
We invite submissions that use any combination of field observations, remote sensing, or modeling to (1) understand the physics of the local water cycle and surface energy balance of urban lands, (2) identify the role of landscape heterogeneity and vegetation in moderating urban heat and water dynamics, and (3) provide insights into sustainable and equitable management of urban environments.
Co-Organized:
Index Terms:
1631 Land/atmosphere interactions [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1834 Human impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1878 Water/energy interactions [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener: Kyle Blount, Washington State University, School of the Environment, Vancouver, WA, United States
Conveners: Newsha K Ajami, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, Garett Pignotti, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, United States and Katie Spahr, Water Research Foundation, Denver, CO, United States
Does effective = equitable? Identifying optimal targets for investment in sustainable stormwater management practices on private property and evaluating implications for equity (Invited) (1063493)
Carolyn Breden Voter, University of Delaware, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Earth Sciences, Newark, DE, United States and Steven P Loheide III, University of Wisconsin Madison, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, WI, United States
Urban Climate Modeling to Quantify Runoff Reduction from Rain Gardens in 30 U.S. Cities (1093300)
Laura Gray, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States, Lei Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States and Ashlynn S. Stillwell, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
Effectiveness of Green Infrastructure on Watershed Scale Flow Regimes of Urban Streams in Cleveland and Denver (1099221)
Zia Ul Hassan, Kent State University Kent Campus, Kent, OH, United States, Anne Jefferson, Kent State University Kent Campus, Kent, United States, Aditi Bhaskar, Colorado State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States, David Costello, Kent State University, Biological Sciences, Kent, OH, United States and Maria Nariné Torres, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States
Better representation of urban hydrologic processes alters how heat responds to urban vegetation in regional climate models (1117309)
Aaron Alexander, University of Wisconsin Madison, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, United States, Carolyn Breden Voter, University of Delaware, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Earth Sciences, Newark, DE, United States, Steven P Loheide III, University of Wisconsin Madison, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, WI, United States and Daniel Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, United States
Does green stormwater infrastructure provide cooling benefits? A field investigation in a mid-Atlantic US city (1121916)
Lauren E McPhillips1, Simon Sauvageau2, Jalayna Antoine2, Christina Cheng3 and Adam Tak3, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, United States, (3)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, United States
Quantifying the Cooling Impact of Urban Heat Island Mitigation Strategies at the Neighborhood Scale (1125506)
Carolien Mossel1, Mary N Zaradich2, Mary Anne Woody1, Lillian Ameling3, Erin A. Foley4, Serigne Mbaye5, Reginald Blake6 and Hamid Norouzi7, (1)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, (2)NASA GISS, New York, United States, (3)Bronx Community College CUNY, New York, United States, (4)Bronxville High School, Bronxville, NY, United States, (5)CUNY New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, United States, (6)CUNY New York City College of Technology, Civil Engineering Department, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (7)New York City College of Technology, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Trees as urban heat and water regulators – a study of canopy interception and transpiration in the City of St Paul, Minnesota (1136527)
Xiating Chen1, Xue Feng2, Faith Breeden3, Diana L Karwan3, Mirae Guenther3 and Lucy Rose3, (1)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (2)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering, Minneapolis, United States, (3)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Forest Resources, Minneapolis, United States
Blue-Green Infrastructure network efficiency to restore Urban Water System: case study Wazirabad Gurugram India (1143933)
Atul Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India, Mahua Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Department of Architecture and Planning, Roorkee, India, Katha Mehta, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management, Roorkee, India and Archita Saha, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Architecture and Planning, Roorkee, India
Cooling Effects of Street Trees in the Urban Heat Island (UHI) of Charleston, SC (1159057)
Dennis Burns, Mount Pleasant, sc, UNITED STATES, Nandan Hara Shetty, Citadel Military College of South Carolina, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charleston, SC, United States and Zachery Campbell, The Citadel, Charleston, United States
Evaporative stress of urban forests across Continental United States (1170386)
Hitesh Prasad Thakur, University of Alabama, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States and Mukesh Kumar, University of Alabama, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Employing Thermal Imagery from Unmanned Aerial Systems to Model the Energy Balance of Urban Runoff (1179183)
Gregory Dieter, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, United States and Walter McDonald, Marquette University, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Milwaukee, WI, United States
A Comparative Analysis of Heat Safe Recreational Space Accessibility between South and Southeast Los Angeles and West Los Angeles (1190803)
Zoë von Allmen, Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States, Joshua B. Fisher, Chapman University, Orange, United States and Jason Douglas, Chapman University, Health Science, Orange, United States
Optimizing vegetation choice for green roof runoff management (1192179)
Samantha R Hartzell, Portland State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland, OR, United States and Olyssa Starry, Portland State University, Honors College, Portland, OR, United States
Mitigating Urban Heat Island Effect by Optimizing Urban Landuse Planning – Use Runoff Coefficient as a Landcover Type Indicator (1192802)
Haokai Zhao, Columbia University, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, New York, United States, Brian Justin Mailloux, Barnard College, Environmental Science, New York, NY, United States, Gregory Yetman, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Palisades, NY, United States and Patricia Jane Culligan, University of Notre Dame, College of Engineering, Notre Dame, United States
