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2021
Tang, Xiaochen, Olivier Rosseler, Sharon S Chen, Sébastien Houzé de l’Aulnoit, Michael J Lussier, Jiachen Zhang, George Ban Weiss, Haley E Gilbert, Ronnen M Levinson, and Hugo Destaillats. "Self-cleaning and de-pollution efficacies of photocatalytic architectural membranes." Applied Catalysis B: Environmental (2021).

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2020
Paolini, Riccardo, Giancarlo Terraneo, Chiara Ferrari, Mohamad Sleiman, Alberto Muscio, Pierangelo Metrangolo, Tiziana Poli, Hugo Destaillats, Michele Zinzi, and Ronnen M Levinson. "Effects of soiling and weathering on the albedo of building envelope materials: Lessons learned from natural exposure in two European cities and tuning of a laboratory simulation practice." Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 205 (2020).

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2019
Tang, Xiaochen, Lara Ughetta, Simon K Shannon, Sharon S Chen, Sébastien Houzé de l’Aulnoit, Rachael AT Gould, Marion L Russell, Jiachen Zhang, George A Ban-Weiss, Rebecca LA Everman, Frank W Klink, Ronnen M Levinson, and Hugo Destaillats. "De-pollution efficacy of photocatalytic roofing granules." Building and Environment 160 (2019).

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Gilbert, Haley E, Tom Jacobs, Seongeun Jeong, Melvin Pomerantz, Dev Millstein, Doug Norsby, Andrea Repinsky, and Ronnen M Levinson. Heat Island Mitigation Assessment and Policy Development for the Kansas City Region. 2019.

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2018
Chen, Sharon S, Hugo Destaillats, Jing Ge, and Ronnen M Levinson. Calibration of laboratory aging practice to replicate changes to roof albedo in a Chinese city. 2018. LBNL-2001005.

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2017
Pomerantz, Melvin. "Are Cooler Surfaces a Cost-Effect Mitigation of Urban Heat Islands?." Urban Climate (2017). LBNL-2001095.

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Gilbert, Haley E, Pablo J Rosado, George A Ban-Weiss, John T Harvey, Hui Li, Benjamin H Mandel, Dev Millstein, Arash Mohegh, Arash Saboori, and Ronnen M Levinson. Energy and environmental consequences of a cool pavement campaign. 2017.

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Levinson, Ronnen M, Haley E Gilbert, Melvin Pomerantz, John T Harvey, and George A Ban-Weiss. "Recent cool pavement research highlights: Quantifying the energy and environmental consequences of cool pavements." 2017.

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Gao, Yafeng, Dachuan Shi, Ronnen M Levinson, Rui Guo, Changqing Lin, and Jing Ge. "Thermal performance and energy savings of white and sedum-tray garden roof: A case study in a Chongqing office building." Energy and Buildings 156 (2017) 343 - 359.
2016
Berdahl, Paul H, Sharon S Chen, Hugo Destaillats, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Ronnen M Levinson, and Michael A Zalich. "Fluorescent Cooling of Objects Exposted to Sunlight - The Ruby Example." Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 157 (2016) 312-317. LBNL-1006729.
Levinson, Ronnen M, Sharon S Chen, George A Ban-Weiss, Haley E Gilbert, Paul H Berdahl, Pablo J Rosado, Hugo Destaillats, Mohamad Sleiman, and Thomas W Kirchstetter. Next-Generation Factory-Produced Cool Asphalt Shingles: Phase 1 Final Report. 2016. LBNL-2001007.

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2015
Cao, Meichun, Pablo J Rosado, Zhaohui Lin, Ronnen M Levinson, and Dev Millstein. "Cool Roofs in Guangzhou, China: Outdoor Air Temperature Reductions during Heat Waves and Typical Summer Conditions." Environmental Science & Technology 49.24 (2015) 14672 - 14679.
Gilbert, Haley E, Benjamin H Mandel, and Ronnen M Levinson. "Keeping California cool: Recent cool community developments." Energy and Buildings (2015).
Pomerantz, Melvin, Pablo J Rosado, and Ronnen M Levinson. "A Simple Tool for Estimating City-Wide Annual Electrical Energy Savings from Cooler Surfaces." Urban Climate 14.2 (2015) 315 - 325. LBNL-184804.

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Sleiman, Mohamad, Sharon S Chen, Haley E Gilbert, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Paul H Berdahl, Erica Bibian, Laura S Bruckman, Dominic Cremona, Roger H French, Devin A Gordon, Marco Emiliani, Justin Kable, Liyan Ma, Milena Martarelli, Riccardo Paolini, Matthew Prestia, John Renowden, Gian Marco Revel, Olivier Rosseler, Ming Shiao, Giancarolo Terraneo, Tammy Yang, Lingtao Yu, Michele Zinzi, Hashem Akbari, Ronnen M Levinson, and Hugo Destaillats. "Soiling of building envelope surfaces and its effect on solar reflectance – Part III: Interlaboratory study of an accelerated aging method for roofing materials." Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 143 (2015) 581-590.
2014
Gao, Yafeng, Jiangmin Xu, Shichao Yang, Xiaomin Tang, Quan Zhou, Jing Ge, Tengfang T Xu, and Ronnen M Levinson. "Cool Roofs in China: Policy Review, Building Simulations, and Proof-Of-Concept Experiments." Energy Policy 74 (2014) 190-214.
Sproul, Julian, Man-Pun Wan, Benjamin H Mandel, and Arthur H Rosenfeld. "Economic Comparison of White, Green, and Black Flat Roofs in the United States." Energy and Buildings 71 (2014) 20-27.
Rosado, Pablo J, David Faulkner, Douglas P Sullivan, and Ronnen M Levinson. "Measured temperature reductions and energy savings from a cool tile roof on a central California home." Energy and Buildings 80 (2014). LBNL-1005104.

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Levinson, Ronnen M, Sharon S Chen, Paul H Berdahl, Pablo J Rosado, and Louis A Medina. "Reflectometer measurement of roofing aggregate albedo." Solar Energy 100 (2014) 159-171.
Sleiman, Mohamad, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Paul H Berdahl, Haley E Gilbert, Sarah Quelen, Lea Marlot, Chelsea V Preble, Sharon S Chen, Amandine Montalbano, Olivier Rosseler, Hashem Akbari, Ronnen M Levinson, and Hugo Destaillats. "Soiling of building envelope surfaces and its effect on solar reflectance – Part II: Development of an accelerated aging method for roofing materials." Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 122 (2014) 271-281. LBNL-6714E.

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2013
Rossi, Federico, Franco Cotana, Mirko Filipponi, Andrea Nicolini, Surabi Menon, and Arthur H Rosenfeld. "Cool roofs as a strategy to tackle global warming: economical and technical opportunities." Advances in Building Energy Research 7.2 (2013) 254 - 268.
Ban-Weiss, George A, Craig P Wray, William W Delp, Peter Ly, Hashem Akbari, and Ronnen M Levinson. "Electricity production and cooling energy savings from installation of a building-integrated photovoltaic roof on an office building." Energy and Buildings 56 (2013) 210 - 220.
Campra, Pablo, and Dev Millstein. "Mesoscale Climatic Simulation of Surface Air Temperature Cooling by Highly Reflective Greenhouses in SE Spain." Environmental Science & Technology 47.21 (2013) 12284-12290.
2012
Levinson, Ronnen M. "The Case for Cool Roofs." 2012.

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Salamanca, Francisco, Shaheen R Tonse, Surabi Menon, Vishal Garg, Krishna P Singh, Manish Naja, and Marc L Fischer. "Top-of-atmosphere radiative cooling with white roofs: experimental verification and model-based evaluation." Environmental Research Letters 7.4 (2012).

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