Session Themes
The organising committee has identified six scientific streams for ICUC11, with each stream covering various sessions and plenaries. These streams include:
Urban climate processes
- 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
Urban climate methods
- 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
Biometeorology & health
- Methods, applications, and translational research
- Urban microclimate and comfort
- Indoor/Outdoor Thermal comfort
- Physiological impacts of urban heat
- Urban environmental health
Integrated assessments of urban climate
- 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-conscious design and sustainable development
- Climate-sensitive urban design and planning
- Building climates and energy
Urban Climate Policy
- Planning and Governance
- Knowledge transfer of urban climate
- Urban climate communication
- Climate-Informed decision-making in cities
Special Sessions
- 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
