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More than half of the world's population now lives in cities, which generate nearly 70% of the gross domestic product. However, cities remain profoundly unprepared for the defining challenges of the 21st century. Chief among these are energy security, environmental and public health sustainability, and climate resilience.
Meeting these challenges demands a deeper understanding of the dynamic and thermodynamic processes that govern the urban environment. Cities fundamentally reshape the atmosphere above them: land-cover and land-use modifications, anthropogenic heat and scalar emissions, and surface heterogeneity all alter the exchanges of momentum, energy, and mass between the surface and the atmosphere. These local-scale perturbations do not operate in isolation - they interact with, and often amplify, larger synoptic-scale disturbances.
In this talk, I will explore the distinctive characteristics of the urban boundary layer and show how an integrated approach - combining multi-scale observations, high-resolution numerical modeling, and space-based remote sensing - can advance our understanding of urban climate processes and, ultimately, inform more resilient and sustainable cities.
Dr. Prathap Ramamurthy is an Associate Professor at CUNY City College. He is also an affiliate at the NOAA CESSRST Institute. He graduated with his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Utah in 2011. His research focuses on using fundamental fluid dynamics techniques to study the urban boundary layer. He is a member of the American Meteorological Society's Urban Climate Board and serves on the New York Panel on Climate Change.
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