Publications
"Cool surfaces and shade trees to reduce energy use and improve air quality in urban areas." Solar Energy 70 (2001) 295-310.
. Cooling Our Communities: A Guidebook on Tree Planting and Light-Colored Surfacing. United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1992. LBL-31587.
. "Introduction, energy savings of reflective roofs." ASHRAE Technical Data Bulletin 14 (1998).
. "Peak power and cooling energy savings of high-albedo roofs." Energy and Buildings 25 (1997) 117-126.
. "Measured energy savings of light-colored roofs: results from three California demonstration sites." 1998 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 1998: 1-13.
. "Cooling energy savings potential of reflective roofs for residential and commercial buildings in the United States." Energy - The International Journal 25 (1999) 391-407.
. . "Cool roofs could save money, save planet." KGO-TV (abc7news). 2009. Television.
. "Calculations in support of SSP 90.1 for reflective roofs." ASHRAE Transactions 104.1A (1998) 984-995.
. "Energy efficiency for fueling the world." Proceedings of the Energy Conservation in Buildings Workshop 2003.
. "Energy effects of heat-island reduction strategies in Toronto, Canada." Energy 29.2 (2004) 191-210.
. "Calculating energy-saving potentials of heat-island reduction strategies." Energy Policy 33.6 (2005) 721-756.
. "Cool buildings and cool communities." Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Buildings and the Environment 1997: 301-308.
. . "Hashem Akbari speaks to BBC Radio World Service about global cooling." BBC. 2009. Television.
. "Global cooling: effect of urban albedo on global temperature." 2nd PALENC and 28th AIVC Conference. Crete, 2007. 1-5.
. . "Validation of an algorithm to disaggregate whole-building hourly electrical load into end uses." Energy 20 (1995) 1291-1301.
. "Performance evaluation of thermal energy storage systems." Energy and Buildings 22 (1995) 15-24.
. "Use of energy management systems for performance monitoring of industrial load-shaping measures." Energy 13 (1988) 253-263.
. . "Procedure for measuring the solar reflectance of flat or curved roofing assemblies." Solar Energy 82.7 (2008) 648-655.
. "Cool systems for hot cities." Professional Roofing 32-35 (1998) 1-5. LBL-43814.
. "Urban Surfaces and Heat Island Mitigation Potentials." Journal of the Human-Environmental System 11.2 (2008) 85-101.
. "Analyzing the land cover of an urban environment using high-resolution orthophotos." Landscape and Urban Planning 63.1 (2003) 1-14.
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