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The Heat Island Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory works to cool buildings, cities, and the planet by making roofs, pavements, and cars cooler in the sun.
Recent Publications
Levinson, Ronnen M, Edward A Arens, Emmanuel Bozonnet, Vincenzo Corrado, Haley E Gilbert, Peter Holzer, Pierre Jaboyedoff, Amanda Krelling, Anaïs Machard, Wendy Miller, Mamak P.Tootkaboni, Stephen E Selkowitz, and Hui Zhang."Policy Recommendations from IEA EBC Annex 80: Resilient Cooling of Buildings."
(2023). DOI
Lee, Sang Hoon, and Ronnen M Levinson."Cool envelope benefits in future typical weather and heatwave conditions for single-family homes in Los Angeles."
(2023). DOI
Levinson, Ronnen M, Mansour Alhazmi, Jackson Becce, Andre Desjarlais, Haley E Gilbert, Greg Kats, Jacob Miller, Emily Morin, David J Sailor, and Sarah Schneider."United States Cool Surfaces Deployment Plan."
(2023). DOI
Tang, Xiaochen, Lara Ughetta, Rachael A.T Gould, Rebecca L.A Everman, Taisiya Skorina, Sharon S Chen, Maureen Kavanagh, Ronnen M Levinson, and Hugo Destaillats."Pilot-scale NOx removal efficacy of photocatalytic roofing granules under urban environmental conditions."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
247 (2022). DOI