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 […]

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