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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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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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2014
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.
2012
Levinson, Ronnen M. "The Case for Cool Roofs." 2012.

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2011
Menon, Surabi, and Ronnen M Levinson. "Cool roofs and global cooling: a response to Jacobson & Ten Hoeve (2011)." 2011.

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2005
Akbari, Hashem, Ronnen M Levinson, William A Miller, and Paul H Berdahl. "Potentials of urban heat island mitigation." Proceedings of the 1st International Passive and Low Energy Cooling for the Built Evironment 2005: 11.
2003
Akbari, Hashem, Leanna S Rose, and Haider Taha. "Analyzing the land cover of an urban environment using high-resolution orthophotos." Landscape and Urban Planning 63.1 (2003) 1-14.
2002
Taha, Haider, Hillel Hammer, and Hashem Akbari. Meteorological and air quality impacts of increased urban albedo and vegetative cover in the greater Toronto Area, Canada. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2002. LBNL-49210.
2000
Akbari, Hashem, and Arthur H Rosenfeld. "Cool communities." Macmillan Encyclopedia of Energy 1 (2000) 305-8. LBL-44129.
Taha, Haider, Alan K Meier, Weijun Gao, and Toshio Ojima. "Mitigation of urban heat islands: meteorology, energy, and airquality impacts." Journal of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Engineering 529 (2000) 69-76.
1999
Taha, Haider. "Modifying a mesoscale meteorological model to better incorporate urban heat storage: a bulk-parameterization approach." Journal of Applied Meteorology 38 (1999) 466-473.
1998
Rosenfeld, Arthur H, Hashem Akbari, Joseph J Romm, and Melvin Pomerantz. "Cool communities: strategies for heat island mitigation and smog reduction." Energy and Buildings 28 (1998) 51-62.
Akbari, Hashem, and Sarah E Bretz. "Cool systems for hot cities." Professional Roofing 32-35 (1998) 1-5. LBL-43814.
1996
Rosenfeld, Arthur H, Joseph J Romm, Hashem Akbari, Melvin Pomerantz, and Haider Taha. "Policies to reduce heat islands: Magnitudes of benefits and incentives to achieve them." 1996 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. 18th ed. Vol. 9. Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA, 1996. 177-186. LBL-38679.

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1990
Huang, Yu Joe, Susan Davis, and Hashem Akbari. "A guidebook for the control of summer heat islands." 1990 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 1990: 79-85. LBL-29224.
1988
Taha, Haider, Hashem Akbari, Arthur H Rosenfeld, and Yu Joe Huang. "Residential cooling loads and the urban heat island—the effects of albedo." Building and Environment 23 (1988) 271-283.