TY - JOUR
T1 - Urban scale processes in high spatial resolution earth system models (ESMs)
AU - Sharma, Ashish
AU - Wuebbles, Donald J.
AU - Kotamarthi, Rao
AU - Calvin, Katherine
AU - Drewniak, Beth
AU - Catlett, Charlie E.
AU - Jacob, Robert
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments. We thank all the participants for actively participating in the workshop. We thank Dr. Fei Chen (NCAR) and Dr. Lei Zhao (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign) for reading the summary manuscript and verifying the factual description of the workshop and accuracy of the content. This workshop was funded through interagency support from the U.S. Department of Energy, the Army Research Office, NASA, and NOAA.
PY - 2020/6
Y1 - 2020/6
N2 - Cities and their associated urban areas have a much larger impact on the environment than their spatial footprint on the Earth’s surface. This is undoubtedly true at local and regional scales, but also at global scales. At this time, more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas (80% in the United States), and the global proportion is projected to climb to 70% by 2050. Therefore, numerical models to study physics, chemistry, and biology affecting the Earth system at regional and global scales must represent the effects of urban areas on climate and the effects of a changing climate on urban areas. At the same time, it is essential to develop state-of-the-art, simple, and accurate urban models to better understand the relevant processes and also to address issues related to urban security against the spectra of chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR) hazards.
AB - Cities and their associated urban areas have a much larger impact on the environment than their spatial footprint on the Earth’s surface. This is undoubtedly true at local and regional scales, but also at global scales. At this time, more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas (80% in the United States), and the global proportion is projected to climb to 70% by 2050. Therefore, numerical models to study physics, chemistry, and biology affecting the Earth system at regional and global scales must represent the effects of urban areas on climate and the effects of a changing climate on urban areas. At the same time, it is essential to develop state-of-the-art, simple, and accurate urban models to better understand the relevant processes and also to address issues related to urban security against the spectra of chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR) hazards.
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U2 - 10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0114.1
DO - 10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0114.1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85096089172
SN - 0003-0007
VL - 101
SP - E1555–E1561
JO - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
JF - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
IS - 9
ER -