11th International Conference
on Urban Climate
Overview
The International Association for Urban Climate (IAUC) and the American Meteorological Society (AMS) warmly invite you to the joint 11th International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC11) to be held in Sydney, Australia, from August 28th to September 1st, 2023.
The ICUC meetings are preeminent events for the presentation of research on urban climate, at all scales. This conference brings together a diverse international community of researchers, urban planners and designers, and policymakers.
The conference will provide an international forum where world-leading experts on urban climate can discuss modern developments in research alongside the application of climatic knowledge to the design of better cities.
The ICUC meetings are preeminent events for the presentation of research on urban climate, at all scales. This conference brings together a diverse international community of researchers, urban planners and designers, and policymakers.
The conference will provide an international forum where world-leading experts on urban climate can discuss modern developments in research alongside the application of climatic knowledge to the design of better cities.
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Thank you for your interest in the 11th International Conference on Urban Climate, registrations are closed.
We look forward to seeing you again next event!
Keynote and Australian stories speakers
Xuemei Bai
Distinguished Professor at Australian National University
Winston Chow
Associate Professor, Singapore Management University
Beck Dawson
Resilient Sydney
Matei Georgescu
Associate Professor, Arizona State University
Nigel Goodman
Australian National University
Simone Kotthaus
École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Zoë Loh
CSIRO Environment
Kim Loo
General Physician
Angela Maharaj
Dpt of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment & Water
Marialena Nikolopoulou
University of Kent
Riccardo Paolini
Senior Lecturer with the School of Built Environment at UNSW
Pascal Perez
Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN)
Andy Pitman
Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes
Nina Ridder
Senior Climate Advisor at Suncorp Australia
Matthew Riley
Science Director, NSW Dept of Planning & Environment
Mat Santamouris
Distinguished Professor, Arts Design and Architecture, UNSW
Sotiris Vardoulakis
Australian National University
Amanda Wheeler
CSIRO
October 2022
Abstract submissions open
31 January 2023
Abstract submissions are now closed
April 2023
Author notifications have now been sent!
ICUC is live!
Important Dates
Registration is closed
Thank you for your interest in the 11th International Conference on Urban Climate, registrations are closed.
We look forward to seeing you again next event!
Session Themes
The organising committee has identified six scientific streams for ICUC11, with each stream covering various sessions and plenaries. These streams include:
- Boundary layer and urban canopy layer processes
- Surface and subsurface urban processes
- Boundary-layer effects
- Urban hydrology
- Urban water management and urban flooding
- Urban air quality
- Pollutant dispersion in the urban canopy layer
- Urban greenhouse gas emissions and uptakes in cities
- Extreme weather and disasters in the urban environment
- Forecasting and impact assessment of extreme weather events in cities
- Influence of cities on precipitations and thunderstorms
- Modelling
- Multi-scale numerical studies of urban environments
- Cities in global- and regional-scale climate models
- Urban canopy parameterizations and models
- Observations
- New observational techniques to study urban climate
- Field campaigns, sensor and network development
- Urban remote sensing
- Wind tunnel and scale model outdoor experiments
- Urban climate informatics
- IoT sensing, Crowdsourcing, and Citizen Science
- Infilling urban climate networks with Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
- Urban databases and city analytics
- Geospatial datasets
- Methods, applications, and translational research
- Urban microclimate and comfort
- Indoor/Outdoor Thermal comfort
- Physiological impacts of urban heat
- Urban environmental health
- Inter-scale interaction of urban phenomena and climate
- Urban climate and climate change
- Climate risks and vulnerabilities in urban systems
- Climate change mitigation & adaptation in urban systems
- Climate services for cities
- Integrated urban hydrometeorology, climate and environment systems and services
- Urban climate vulnerability in developing countries
- Urban living laboratories: use cases, successful implementation, and challenges
- Climate-sensitive urban design and planning
- Building climates and energy
- Planning and Governance
- Knowledge transfer of urban climate
- Urban climate communication
- Climate-Informed decision-making in cities
- Urban underground climate and sustainable development
- WUDAPT - an overview
- Infectious disease transmission and urban climate: COVID-19 and beyond
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), urban policies and climate actions in developing countries
- Nature-based solutions for sustainable, resilient and liveable cities
- Urban heat mitigation: observations, numerical modelling and integrated assessment methods
- Extreme weather and climate in urban areas, their social impacts, and mitigation
- Exploring co-benefits of integrated low-carbon urban planning initiatives
- Mutual effects of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures and urban climate
- Energy and water supply facing compound crises
- Local Government and Urban Climate Management
Conference Chairs and Organisers
- Co-chairs
- Organising Committee
- Scientific Program Committee
Scientia Professor Mat Santamouris
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Scientia Professor Deo Prasad
University of New South Wales
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Professor Richard de Dear
University of Sydney
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Professor Xiaoqi Feng
University of New South Wales
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Emeritus Professor Nigel Tapper
Monash University
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Scientific Program Committee
Dr Riccardo Paolini
University of New South Wales
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Dr Mathew Lipson
Bureau of Meteorology
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Publication Committee
Dr Carlos Bartesaghi Koc
University of Adelaide
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Professor Gerald Mill
University College Dublin
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Community Engagement and Promotion Committee
Dr Matthias Demuzere
Ruhr University Bochum
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Professor Baojie He
Chongqing University
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Early Career Researcher (ECR) Engagement Committee
Dr Shamila Haddad
ECR Engagement Chair, UNSW
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Dr Shreya Banerjee
Singapore Management University
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Dr Peter Crank
Oklahoma State University, USA
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Dr Kerry Nice
University of Melbourne
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Dr Cho Kwong Charlie Lam
Sun Yat-sen University
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Social Media Committee
Gisel Guzman Echavarria
Arizona State University, USA
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Pui Kwan Cheung
University of Melbourne
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Natasha Picone
Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
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Peter Armstrong, Khalifa University, UAE
Alexander Baklanov, World Meteorological Organization, Switzerland
Ifeoluwa Balogun, Federal University of Technology, Nigeria
Benjamin Bechtel, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany
Brij Bhushan, Mewar University, India
Winston Chow, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Andreas Christen, Universität Freiburg, Germany
Matthias Demuzere, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany
Mat Georgescu, Arizona State University, USA
Jorge Gonzalez, City College New York, USA
Sue Grimmond, University of Reading, UK
Akhilesh Gupta, Department of Science and Technology, India
Aya Hagishima, Kyushu University, Japan
Leena Järvi, University of Helsinki, Finland
Andreas Matzarakis, German Meteorological Service, Germany
Shiguang Miao, China Meteorological Administration, China
Ariane Middel, Arizona State University, USA
Gerald Mill, University College Dublin, Ireland
Chandana Mitra, Auburn University, USA
Dev Niyogi, University of Texas at Austin, USA
David Pearlmutter, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Amauri Pereira de Oliveira, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Chao Ren, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
David Sailor, Arizona State University, USA
Jennifer Salmond, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Nigel Tapper, Monash, Australia
Mukul Tewari, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
Sofia Thorsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Helen Ward, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Jennifer Vanos, Arizona State University, USA
James Voogt, Western University, Canada
Sevgi Yilmaz, Atatürk University, Turkey
Registration is closed
Thank you for your interest in the 11th International Conference on Urban Climate, registrations are closed.
We look forward to seeing you again next event!
Important Announcement:
COVID-19 Response
The ICUC Organising Committee surveyed the urban climate community in Aug 2020 to ask how COVID may impact their ability to submit an abstract, attend the conference at proposed dates, possible future postponement dates, and what their preferences are for face-to-face versus virtual components. Overall, 217 responses were received from 45 different countries. The complete report of this survey can be found here.
As a conclusion of this survey and given the overwhelming response received, the conference will be postponed to August 28th - September 1st, 2023.