Publications
2023
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
2022
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
2021
Sun, Kaiyu, Wanni Zhang, Zhaoyun Zeng, Ronnen M. Levinson, Max Wei, and Tianzhen Hong."Passive cooling designs to improve heat resilience of homes in underserved and vulnerable communities."Energy and Buildings
252 (2021) 111383. DOI
Celniker, Chloe, Sharon S. Chen, Alan K. Meier, and Ronnen M. Levinson."Targeting buildings for energy-saving cool-wall retrofits: a case study at the University of California, Davis."Energy and Buildings
249 (2021) 111014. DOI
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). DOI
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). DOI
2019
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). DOI
Tang, Xiaochen, Lara Ughetta, Simon K. Shannon, Sharon S. Chen, Sébastien Houzé de l’Aulnoit, Rachael A.T. Gould, Marion L. Russell, Jiachen Zhang, George A. Ban-Weiss, Rebecca L.A. Everman, Frank W. Klink, Ronnen M. Levinson, and Hugo Destaillats."De-pollution efficacy of photocatalytic roofing granules."Building and Environment
160 (2019). DOI
Singh, Reshma, Mary Ann Piette, Ashok J. Gadgil, Rajan Rawal, Narendra Bansal, Vishal Garg, Jyotirmay Mathur, Philip Haves, Paul A. Mathew, Christian Kohler, Mahabir Bhandari, Gail Brager, Vivian Loftness, Narendran Nadarajah, Ronnen M. Levinson, Richard E. Brown, Andre Desjarlais, Milind Rane, Sanyogita Manu, Yash Shukla, and Mona Doctor-Pingel."R&D and Implementation Outcomes From The U.S.-India Bilateral Center For Building Energy Research And Development Program."
(2019). DOI
Less, Brennan, Iain S. Walker, Jonathan L. Slack, Leo I. Rainer, and Ronnen M. Levinson."Sealed and Insulated Attic Hygrothermal Performance in New California Homes Using Vapor and Air Permeable Insulation—Field Study and Simulations."
(2019).
Levinson, Ronnen M., George A. Ban-Weiss, Paul Berdahl, Sharon S. Chen, Hugo Destaillats, Nathalie Dumas, Haley E. Gilbert, Howdy Goudey, Sébastien Houzé de l’Aulnoit, Jan Kleissl, Benjamin Kurtz, Yun Li, Yan Long, Arash Mohegh, Negin Nazarian, Matteo Pizzicotti, Pablo J. Rosado, Marion L. Russell, Jonathan L. Slack, Xiaochen Tang, Jiachen Zhang, and Weilong Zhang."Solar-Reflective “Cool” Walls: Benefits, Technologies, and Implementation."
(2019). DOI
Levinson, Ronnen M., Howdy Goudey, Sharon S. Chen, Haley E. Gilbert, George A. Ban-Weiss, Joseph Ko, Yun Li, Arash Mohegh, Angie Rodriguez, Jonathan L. Slack, Haider Taha, Tianbo Tang, and Jiachen Zhang."Monitoring the Urban Heat Island Effect and the Efficacy of Future Countermeasures."
(2019). DOI
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).
2017
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. DOI
Mohegh, Arash, Pablo J. Rosado, Ling Jin, Dev Millstein, Ronnen M. Levinson, and George A. Ban-Weiss."Modeling the climate impacts of deploying solar reflective cool pavements in California cities."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
122.13 (2017) 6798 - 6817. DOI
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).
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).
Pomerantz, Melvin."Are Cooler Surfaces a Cost-Effect Mitigation of Urban Heat Islands?."Urban Climate
(2017). DOI
2016
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).
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. DOI
Less, Brennan, Iain S. Walker, and Ronnen M. Levinson."A Literature Review of Sealed and Insulated Attics—Thermal, Moisture and Energy Performance."
(2016). DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI