Non-exhaustive list of urban-climate related sessions:

• GC161 – Urban Areas and Global Change

Both physical and socio-economic dimensions of urbanization play pivotal roles in influencing Earth system processes and human society. Understanding these impacts from local to global scales requires methods and expertise from various scientific fields. This session invites observational and modeling studies of biogeochemical, biophysical, and socio-ecological interactions within human-land-atmosphere systems in and in relation to urban areas. We also welcome studies examining socio-institutional and technological pathways affecting spatiotemporal patterns of urban carbon emissions and energy demand.

Potential topics include:

• Urban water, energy, and biogeochemical cycles of the past, present, and future.
• Greenhouse gas emissions and energy demand due to urbanization.
• Urban impacts on landscapes, climate, and air quality across scales.
• Influence of socio-economic dynamics and socio-political conditions, and their implications, on policy and urban planning.

Perspectives from various researchers and practitioners, from natural and social scientists to engineers and planners, who develop/deploy new measurement and scaling tools, are encouraged.

Link to session and submission: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prelim.cgi/Session/225635

• GC025 – Advancing Representation of Urban Processes and Dynamics in Models Across Scales

 Cities are important drivers of climate change, hotspots of climate impacts, and fundamental foci of climate solutions. Due to the dearth of urban observations and the importance of understanding future changes, models are critical for simulating urban processes and their complex interactions with background climate across scales. However, urban representations in models are fraught with uncertainties and crude assumptions. This session invites submissions of modeling efforts including new parameterizations, new datasets, model improvements, and evaluation to advance the representation of coupled human-urban-Earth dynamics across scales: i.e., from large-eddy simulators to mesoscale models to Earth system models. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: advancements in representation of urban biophysical, and biogeochemical processes, urban vegetation, building and transportation energy use and emissions, urban morphology and surface heterogeneity, air pollution, dynamic urbanization, infrastructure systems, and socioeconomic processes. We encourage submissions on not only process-based modeling, but also data-driven machine learning models.

Link to session and submission: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prelim.cgi/Session/225944

The conference International Days on Thermal Science and Energy, formerly better known as Journées internationales de thermique, celebrates 40 years of existence. The 20th Edition, JITH 2024, is now launched.

The IGC 2024 will continue the tradition of previous congresses in recognising that our world faces many common natural and societal challenges that can only be dealt with through global action, understanding and sharing. Geography as a discipline, its skills, attributes and the geographic mindset has much to offer other disciplines, policymakers, officials, politicians, and our wider communities. The theme of our congress is ‘Celebrating a World of Difference’ and we are strongly focused through our academic and fieldwork programme on supporting intercultural awareness and understanding; promoting intellectual diversity as a strength; bringing geographic research and thinking beyond the congress walls; and grappling with the complex interconnections between people, place and the natural world. In an increasingly contested, fragmented and troubled world, celebrating difference as a strength and acknowledging our common humanity is essential.

The Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) was established in 2003 to promote geosciences and its application for the benefit of humanity, specifically in Asia and Oceania and with an overarching approach to global issues. The Asia Oceania region is particularly vulnerable to natural hazards, accounting for almost 80% human lives lost globally. AOGS is deeply involved in addressing hazard related issues through improving our understanding of the genesis of hazards through scientific, social and technical approaches. AOGS holds annual conventions providing a unique opportunity of exchanging scientific knowledge and discussion to address important geo-scientific issues among academia, research institution and public. Some urban -climate related sessions (check program for more):

• IG14 on “Asian Urban Growth and Its Impact on Urban Climate”
• AS91 on “Cities and Weather/Climate Extremes”

The EGU General Assembly 2024 brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience, include a large number of urban-climate related sessions, eg.:

• ITS2.10/CL0.1.14: Promoting the understanding of urban climate and potential climate change hazard through citizen science EU projects, e.g. I-CHANGE and AGORA
• ITS2.11/NH13.2: Climate Change Effects on Coastal Urban Areas: Tools and and Methods to Address Climate Resilience
• CL2.5: Urban climate, urban biometeorology, and science tools for cities

Deadline for abstract submission: January 10, 2024.

For more than 100 years AGU has been opening science—opening pathways to discovery, opening greater awareness to address climate change, opening greater collaborations to lead to solutions and opening the fields and professions of science to a whole new age of justice equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging.

This year, as we convene >25,000 attendees from 100+ countries in San Francisco for AGU23, our theme is: Wide. Open. Science. 2023 might be the official year of Open Science but we also see it as an opportunity to affirm AGU’s overarching values and beliefs. It is a message for all of us to carry as we come together to share, inspire, collaborate, engage and most of all rededicate ourselves as a united community grounded in wide open science.

The 6th International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Islands (6th IC2UHI), will be hosted in Melbourne, Australia and will be devoted to the science, design, engineering and public policies in relation to the interdisciplinary nature of effectively addressing urban heat island effects in our cities.

Scientists, academics, engineers, builders, architects, policy makers and government officials are invited to participate in 6th IC2UHI Conference to share their knowledge about activities that have been or will be undertaken to address urban heat islands.

The diverse range of themes in this conference will broaden the scope and knowledge on new approaches, findings and evidence around countermeasures to urban heat islands.

17th National meeting of environmental comfort in the built environment and 13th latin america meeting of environmental comfort in the built environment.

ENCAC is a biennial meeting aimed at teachers, researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, builders, designers, consultants, public agency technicians and professionals working in the areas of civil construction, architecture, housing and other topics related to Environmental Comfort in the Built Environment. This year it will be hosted by the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie.

The PALM model system has grown into a complex but powerful modeling system for high-resolution numerical simulations. Currently, the model is transitioning to a community model to guarantee further development, as well as build an accessible, flexible, and robust user community in the future.

The PMC will bring developers and users of the PALM Model system together. The goal is to provide a forum for the PALM model community to discuss and advance model development, validation, data generation, and recent PALM-based research. There will be not only plenary sessions with scientific and technical presentations, but also working group and internal project meetings, and other discussion groups of the community model consortium.

The International Association for Urban Climate (IAUC) and the American Meteorological Society (AMS) warmly invite you to the joint 11^th International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC11) to be held in Sydney, Australia, from August 28^th to September 1^st, 2023.