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Akbari, Hashem, Diego Samano, Atila Mertol, Fred S Bauman, and Ron C Kammerud. "The effect of variations in convection coefficients on thermal energy storage in buildings Part I - Interior partition walls." Energy and Buildings 9 (1986) 195-211.
Levinson, Ronnen M, William W Delp, Darryl J Dickerhoff, and Mark P Modera. "Effects of airflow infiltration on the thermal performance of internally insulated ducts." Energy and Buildings 32.3 (2000) 345-354.
Levinson, Ronnen M, and Hashem Akbari. "Effects of composition and exposure on the solar reflectance of portland cement concrete." Cement and Concrete Research 32 (2002) 1679-1698.
Wray, Craig P, and Hashem Akbari. "The effects of roof reflectance on air temperatures surrounding a rooftop condensing unit." Energy and Buildings 40.1 (2008) 11-28.
Levinson, Ronnen M, Paul H Berdahl, Asmeret A Berhe, and Hashem Akbari. "Effects of soiling and cleaning on the reflectance and solar heat gain of a light-colored roofing membrane." Atmospheric Environment 39.40 (2005) 7807-7824.
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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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.
Akbari, Hashem, and Steven J Konopacki. "Energy effects of heat-island reduction strategies in Toronto, Canada." Energy 29.2 (2004) 191-210.
McPherson, E. Gregory, Klaus I Scott, and James R Simpson. "Estimating cost effectiveness of residential yard trees for improving air quality in Sacramento, California, using existing models." Atmospheric Environment 32.1 (1998) 75-84.
Synnefa, Afroditi, Mat Santamouris, and Hashem Akbari. "Estimating the effect of using cool coatings on energy loads and thermal comfort in residential buildings in various climatic conditions." Energy and Buildings 39.11 (2007) 1167-1174.
Akbari, Hashem, and Ronnen M Levinson. "Evolution of cool roof standards in the United States." Advances in Building Energy Research 2.1 (2008) 1-32. LBNL-736E.
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.
Akbari, Hashem, and Tom R Borgers. "Free convective laminar flow within the trombe wall channel." Solar Energy 22.2 (1979) 165-174.
Borgers, Tom R, and Hashem Akbari. "Free convective turbulent flow within the trombe wall channel." Solar Energy 33.3-4 (1984) 253-264.
Akbari, Hashem, Surabi Menon, and Arthur H Rosenfeld. "Global cooling: increasing world-wide urban albedos to offset CO2." Climatic Change 94.3-4 (2009) 275-286.
Taha, Haider, Hashem Akbari, and Arthur H Rosenfeld. "Heat island and oasis effects of vegetative canopies: micro-meteorological field-measurements." Theoretical and Applied Climatology 44 (1991) 123-138.
Akbari, Hashem, and Haider Taha. "The impact of trees and white surfaces on residential heating and cooling energy use in four Canadian cities." Energy 17 (1992) 141-149.
Taha, Haider, Steven J Konopacki, and Sasa Gabersek. "Impacts of large-scale surface modifications on meteorological conditions and energy use: a 10-region modeling study." Theoretical and Applied Climatology 62.3-4 (1999) 175-185.
Taha, Haider, Steven J Konopacki, and Hashem Akbari. "Impacts of lowered urban air temperatures on precursor emission and ozone air quality." Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 48.9 (1998) 860-865.
Levinson, Ronnen M, Hashem Akbari, Steven J Konopacki, and Sarah E Bretz. "Inclusion of cool roofs in nonresidential Title 24 prescriptive requirements." Energy Policy 33.2 (2005) 151-170.
Akbari, Hashem. "Introduction, energy savings of reflective roofs." ASHRAE Technical Data Bulletin 14 (1998).
Gilbert, Haley E, Benjamin H Mandel, and Ronnen M Levinson. "Keeping California cool: Recent cool community developments." Energy and Buildings (2015).
Bretz, Sarah E, and Hashem Akbari. "Long-term performance of high-albedo roof coatings." Energy and Buildings 25.2 (1997) 159-167.
Parker, Danny S, Yu Joe Huang, Steven J Konopacki, Lisa M Gartland, John R Sherwin, and Lixing Gu. "Measured and simulated performance of reflective roofing systems in residential buildings." ASHRAE Transactions 104 (1998).
Akbari, Hashem. "Measured energy savings from the application of reflective roofs in two small non-residential buildings." Energy 28.9 (2003) 953-967.

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