UP2.1 | Cities and urban areas in the earth-atmosphere system
Cities and urban areas in the earth-atmosphere system
Including Tromp Foundation Travel Award to Young Scientists
Conveners: Jan-Peter Schulz, Ranjeet Sokhi, Pavol Nejedlik, Arianna Valmassoi | Co-conveners: Kevin Gurney, Maria de Fatima Andrade, K. Heinke Schlünzen, Jan Keller, Silvana Di Sabatino, Marina Neophytou
Orals
| Tue, 05 Sep, 09:00–16:00 (CEST)|Lecture room B1.03, Wed, 06 Sep, 09:00–15:30 (CEST)|Lecture room B1.03
Posters
| Attendance Tue, 05 Sep, 16:00–17:15 (CEST) | Display Mon, 04 Sep, 09:00–Wed, 06 Sep, 09:00|Poster area 'Day room'
Orals |
Tue, 09:00
Posters
Tue, 16:00
Cities and urban environments are a key aspect of the United Nations (UN) Agenda for Sustainable Development, as well as in recent scientific and socio-economic perspectives. As urbanization processes continue across the world, its representation, impact, and understanding needs to be further studied to fully comprehend its impact on weather, air quality and climate. These aspects are crucial both for advancing current knowledge and creating effective sustainable solutions. Key challenges in accomplishing this task vary according to the level of complexity and multi-scale dimension of diverse urban environments.

Urban environments are structurally complex as they span a diversity of typologies, e.g. industrial, residential, and recreational/green areas, which, in turn, have diverse time-varying impacts on the Earth system. Among these are impacts on the air quality, water quality, heat, and energy consumption/production. Furthermore, urban environments often exhibit low resilience to climate change and extreme weather, which further affects the living conditions of urban dwellers.

This session presents and explores aspects of cities and urban environments within the Earth system. We welcome modelling and observational studies that aim to investigate different aspects of urbanization (e.g. urban heat island, air quality, population vulnerability, urban/peri-urban agriculture) and its feedback on weather and climate systems, with a particular focus on application for sustainable adaptation plans. Novel methods that aim to assess urban representation and/or to bridge the different scales within numerical models are encouraged. The impact of cities on weather, air quality, climate and/or their extremes (e.g. drought, precipitation, air pollution episodes), as well as on climate change and on population and adaptation will also be discussed in this session.


Topics may include:

• new urban parameterizations, methods to derive urban parameters for numeric models
• implementation of climate mitigations, adaptation strategies and self-government policies in cities and urban context
• impact of the different urban parameterizations on the atmosphere dynamics and on the different scales
• the impact of the urbanization including estate industrial on weather and/or climate extremes
• field measurements of urban climate, e.g. urban heat island
• impact of different surfaces (green areas, impermeable outer surfaces etc.) on climate and/or its extremes in build-up areas and blue-green infrastructures
• population vulnerability to urban climate and climate change
• extreme events (e.g. drought, rainfall events) impacts on town agglomeration
• urban and peri-urban agriculture
• Urban emissions of climate forcers and air pollutants
• Urban air quality and meteorological interactions
• High resolution and microscale modelling of meteorology and air pollution in urban areas
• Coupling and downscaling of urban, regional and global scale modelling approaches to quantify climate and atmospheric composition impacts and feedbacks
• Integrated monitoring, modelling and forecast systems for urban hazards
• Urban transition to cleaner fuels
• Crowd sourced data/novel data sources in cities as well as
• Social science analyses of cities

Organised jointly with:
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Global Atmospheric Watch Project GAW Urban Research in Meteorology and Environment (GURME)
WMO World Weather Research Programme (WWRP)

Orals: Tue, 5 Sep | Lecture room B1.03

Chairpersons: Arianna Valmassoi, Ranjeet Sokhi, Pavol Nejedlik
09:00–09:05
5-minute convener introduction
UHI quantification and land use/land cover
EMS2023-240
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solicited
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Onsite presentation
A new guidance on measuring, modelling and monitoring the canopy layer urban heat island
K. Heinke Schlünzen et al.
EMS2023-169
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Onsite presentation
Optimization of urban form classification and the impact on the urban thermal condition
(withdrawn)
Yu Cheng Chen and Jue Ru Chen
EMS2023-341
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Onsite presentation
The Contribution of Urbanization to the Current Temperature Trend in Türkiye
Davut Enes Türkmen and Barış Önol
Coffee break
Chairpersons: Jan-Peter Schulz, K. Heinke Schlünzen, Maria de Fatima Andrade
EMS2023-144
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Online presentation
Analysis of the Swiss urban climate over the past five years
Jacopo Canton and Anurag Dipankar
EMS2023-544
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Online presentation
Understanding Cold Climate Cities: Implications for Urban Sustainability
Victoria Miles et al.
Climate monitoring
EMS2023-379
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Onsite presentation
High-resolution air temperature forecast for urban heat wave management
Nico Bader et al.
Climate change and projections
EMS2023-618
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Onsite presentation
Climate Change Scenarios and Prediction Localization for City of Prague
Tomas Halenka et al.
Lunch break
Chairpersons: Ranjeet Sokhi, Arianna Valmassoi, K. Heinke Schlünzen
EMS2023-381
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Onsite presentation
How thermally comfortable are cities in the EMME region simulated to be in the future?
Katiana Constantinidou and Panos Hadjinicolaou
Emissions reconstructions
EMS2023-49
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Onsite presentation
Reconstruction of Emissions from Pottery Kilns in the Roman Period
Clemens Drüe et al.
EMS2023-652
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Onsite presentation
Potential Sources of Methane Emissions in Urban Areas
Mustafa Hmoudah et al.
15:30–16:00
Posters pitch
Meteo-climate modelling applications and developments

Orals: Wed, 6 Sep | Lecture room B1.03

Chairpersons: Pavol Nejedlik, Maria de Fatima Andrade, Arianna Valmassoi
EMS2023-62
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solicited
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Onsite presentation
Evaluating the Impact of Urbanization on Thermal Comfort in Turin: A Numerical Simulation Study
Lippin Pauly et al.
EMS2023-16
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solicited
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Onsite presentation
How has the urban development of Madrid affected the local climate? Analysis ofthe last 50 years
Juan Carbone et al.
EMS2023-461
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Online presentation
A new urban parameterization for the ICON atmospheric model: first results over Italy
Angelo Campanale et al.
Coffee break
Chairpersons: Jan-Peter Schulz, Kevin Gurney, K. Heinke Schlünzen
EMS2023-219
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Online presentation
A climate modelling analysis of the Plan-B region in Vorarlberg, Austria
Robert Goler et al.
Air quality modelling applications and developments
11:30–12:00
Sue Grimmond: Simplicity and complexity trade-offs in modelling urban-atmosphere | Zilitinkevich awardee 2023
Field campaigns and projects
EMS2023-616
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solicited
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Onsite presentation
CORDEX Flagship Pilot Study URB-RCC: Urban Environments and Regional Climate Change
Tomas Halenka and Gaby Langendijk
Lunch break
Chairpersons: Pavol Nejedlik, Jan-Peter Schulz, Kevin Gurney
EMS2023-625
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Onsite presentation
From Aerosols to Greenhouse Gases: evaluating the concentrations
Maria de Fatima Andrade et al.

Posters: Tue, 5 Sep, 16:00–17:15 | Poster area 'Day room'

Display time: Mon, 4 Sep 09:00–Wed, 6 Sep 09:00
Chairpersons: Ranjeet Sokhi, Pavol Nejedlik, Arianna Valmassoi
EMS2023-250
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Onsite presentation
Urban Climate Measurements in Hannover (Germany)
Gabriele Krugmann et al.
EMS2023-320
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Onsite presentation
Connecting physical and socio-economic spaces for urban agent-based modelling
Denise Hertwig et al.
EMS2023-615
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Onsite presentation
Project FOCI - Non-CO2 Forcers and Their Climate, Weather, Air Quality, and Health Impacts
Tomas Halenka and Ranjeet S. Sokhi

Additional speaker

  • Sue Grimmond, University of Reading, United Kingdom