Session 10C Land Use and Land Cover Change - Interactions with Weather and Climate I

Wednesday, 31 January 2024: 10:45 AM-12:00 PM
325 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Cochairs:
Bradford Johnson, Florida State University, Geography, Tallahassee, FL and Marcus D. Williams

Land use and land cover change (LULCC) can significantly contribute to overall climate change. The impacts of LULCC are often complex as they occur in the context of a warming climate. LULCC affects the global concentration of greenhouse gasses, often times removing vegetation and forest cover that acts as a natural carbon sink. This can contribute to already elevated levels of greenhouse gases which can promote a positive feedback leading to further land use change. LULCC can accelerate parts of the hydrologic cycle, such as runoff characteristics and groundwater storage, and in some cases increase the likelihood of extreme flooding events in urban areas. This session serves as a continuation of the previous year’s session to disseminate research that investigates the impact of LULCC on climate across multiple spatio-temporal scales via high resolution, numerical prediction models and observation analysis. Research on best practices and emerging methods in application and implementation of LULCC are also welcome, as no uniform methodology exists in the current literature.

Papers:
10:45 AM
10C.1
Evidence of Urban Weather Modification in a Mid-Sized Urban Area – a Climatological Analysis of Augusta,Georgia
J. Marshall Shepherd, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and J. T. McLeod and M. Appelbaum

11:00 AM
10C.2
Indirect Biophysical Effect of Global Urban Land Expansion on the Surface Climate
Keer Zhang, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and B. Fang, K. Oleson, L. Zhao, C. He, Q. Huang, Z. Liu, C. Cao, and X. Lee

11:15 AM
10C.3
Quantifying the Impacts of an Urban Area on Clouds and Precipitation Patterns in Downwind Regions: A Modeling Perspective
Giacomo Moraglia, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN; Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and P. Crippa, S. C. Pryor, and X. Zhou

11:30 AM
10C.4
Estimating the Effects of Vegetation Change on Carbon Sequestration and the Relative Impacts of Albedo in the Mid-Atlantic USA
Vikrant Sapkota, The Pennsylvania State Univ., STATE COLLEGE, PA; and C. E. Forest and J. D. Fuentes

11:45 AM
10C.5
Characterizing Patterns of Cropland Change in Regions with Changing Climates
Jennifer Kennedy, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and G. C. Hurtt and X. Z. Liang

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