AGU Session H112 - Urban heat, vegetation, and water dynamics: new insights and implications for management and equity

 AGU Session H112 - Urban heat, vegetation, and water dynamics: new insights and implications for management and equity

Dear colleagues,

Please consider submitting your research to AGU session - H112 – “Urban heat, vegetation, and water dynamics: new insights and implications for management and equity”.

Session link:

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/prelim.cgi/Session/122868

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. Through land-atmosphere interactions, increasingly developed urban landscapes alter 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 vegetation and development in moderating urban heat islands and water dynamics, and (3) provide insights into sustainable and equitable management of urban environments.

Submission deadline: August 4th, 2021

 

We would also like to encourage any related manuscript submissions to a special issue in Remote Sensing, "Urban water and heat balance coupling: Remote sensing and modeling of urban ecosystem health and equity of urban human environmental comfort".

Submission link:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/urban_water_heat

Deadline for submissions: November 30th, 2021

 

Looking forward to seeing you in New Orleans!

Best regards,

Kyle Blount, Garett Pignotti, Newsha Ajami, Katie Spahr, and Natalie Chin