Publications

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2015

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. DOI
Gilbert, Haley E., Benjamin H. Mandel, and Ronnen M. Levinson."Keeping California cool: Recent cool community developments."Energy and Buildings (2015). DOI

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. DOI
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). DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI

2013

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. DOI
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. DOI
Ly, Peter, George A. Ban-Weiss, Nathan Finch, Craig P. Wray, Mark de Ogburn, William W. Delp, Hashem Akbari, Scott Smaby, Ronnen M. Levinson, Bret Gean, and SEI Group Inc.."Building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) roofs for sustainability and energy efficiency." (2013) 156 pp..
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. DOI

2012

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). DOI
Levinson, Ronnen M.."The Case for Cool Roofs." (2012).

2011

Levinson, Ronnen M., Heng Pan, George A. Ban-Weiss, Pablo J. Rosado, Riccardo Paolini, and Hashem Akbari."Potential benefits of solar reflective car shells: Cooler cabins, fuel savings and emission reductions."Applied Energy 88.12 (2011) 4343-4357. DOI
Menon, Surabi, and Ronnen M. Levinson."Cool roofs and global cooling: a response to Jacobson & Ten Hoeve (2011)." (2011).
Sleiman, Mohamad, George A. Ban-Weiss, Haley E. Gilbert, David François, Paul H. Berdahl, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Hugo Destaillats, and Ronnen M. Levinson."Soiling of building envelope surfaces and its effect on solar reflectance—Part I: Analysis of roofing product databases."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 95.12 (2011) 3385-3399. DOI
Millstein, Dev, and Surabi Menon."Regional climate consequences of large-scale cool roof and photovoltaic array deployment."Environmental Research Letters 6.3 (2011).

2010

Levinson, Ronnen M., Hashem Akbari, and Paul H. Berdahl."Measuring solar reflectance—Part I: Defining a metric that accurately predicts solar heat gain."Solar Energy 84.9 (2010) 1717-1744. DOI
Levinson, Ronnen M., Hashem Akbari, and Paul H. Berdahl."Measuring solar reflectance—Part II: Review of practical methods."Solar Energy 84.9 (2010) 1745-1759. DOI
Levinson, Ronnen M., Hashem Akbari, Paul H. Berdahl, Kurt Wood, Wayne Skilton, and Jerry Petersheim."A novel technique for the production of cool colored concrete tile and asphalt shingle roofing products."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 94.6 (2010) 946-954. DOI
Levinson, Ronnen M., and Hashem Akbari."Potential benefits of cool roofs on commercial buildings: conserving energy, saving money, and reducing emission of greenhouse gases and air pollutants."Energy Efficiency 3.1 (2010) 53-109. DOI
Menon, Surabi, Hashem Akbari, Sarith Mahanama, Igor Sednev, and Ronnen M. Levinson."Radiative forcing and temperature response to changes in urban albedos and associated CO2 offsets."Environmental Research Letters 5.1 (2010). DOI
Menon, Surabi, Hashem Akbari, Sarith Mahanama, Igor Sednev, and Ronnen M. Levinson."Radiative forcing and temperature response to changes in urban albedo and associated CO2 offsets."Environmental Research Letters 5.1 (2010). DOI

2009

Levinson, Ronnen M., Hashem Akbari, Melvin Pomerantz, and Smita Gupta."Solar access of residential rooftops in four California cities."Solar Energy 83.12 (2009) 2120-2135. DOI
Barringer, Felicity."By Degrees: White Roofs Catch On as Energy Cost Cutters."The New York Times (2009).