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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.
Bretz, Sarah E, Hashem Akbari, and Arthur H Rosenfeld. "Practical issues for using solar-reflective materials to mitigate urban heat islands." Atmospheric Environment 32 (1998) 95-101.
Ting, Michael K, Jonathan G Koomey, and Melvin Pomerantz. Preliminary evaluation of the lifecycle costs and market barriers of reflective pavements. 2001.
Berdahl, Paul H, and Sarah E Bretz. "Preliminary survey of the solar reflectance of cool roofing materials." Energy and Buildings 25 (1997) 149-158.
Akbari, Hashem, Ronnen M Levinson, and Stephanie Stern. "Procedure for measuring the solar reflectance of flat or curved roofing assemblies." Solar Energy 82.7 (2008) 648-655.
Akbari, Hashem, Beth L Fishman, and Geoffrey Frohnsdorff. "Proceedings of the Workshop on Cool Building Materials." Workshop on Cool Building Materials, National Institute of Standards and Technology 1994. LBL-35514.

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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).
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.

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Pomerantz, Melvin, Hashem Akbari, Paul H Berdahl, Steven J Konopacki, Haider Taha, and Arthur H Rosenfeld. "Reflective surfaces for cooler buildings and cities." Philosophical Magazine Part B 79 (1999) 1457-1476.
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.
Millstein, Dev, and Surabi Menon. "Regional climate consequences of large-scale cool roof and photovoltaic array deployment." Environmental Research Letters 6.3 (2011).

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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.
Akbari, Hashem, Ronnen M Levinson, and Paul H Berdahl. A Review of Methods for the Manufacture of Residential Roofing Materials. 2003. LBNL-55574.
Sailor, David J. "Role of Surface Characteristics in Urban Meteorology and Air Quality." University of California, Berkeley, 1993.
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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).

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Akbari, Hashem. "Shade trees reduce building energy use and CO2 emissions from power plants." Environmental Pollution 116.1 (2002) S119-S126.
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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Konopacki, Steven J, and Hashem Akbari. Simulated impact of roof surface solar absorptance, attic, and duct insulation on cooling and heating energy use in single-family new residential buildings. 1998.
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.
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. LBNL-6714E.

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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.
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.
Levinson, Ronnen M, Paul H Berdahl, and Hashem Akbari. "Solar spectral optical properties of pigments—Part I: model for deriving scattering and absorption coefficients from transmittance and reflectance measurements." Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 89.4 (2005) 319-349.
Levinson, Ronnen M, Paul H Berdahl, and Hashem Akbari. "Solar spectral optical properties of pigments—Part II: survey of common colorants." Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 89.4 (2005) 351-389.
Gustavsen, Arlid, and Paul H Berdahl. "Spectral Emissivity of Anodized Aluminum and the Thermal Transmittance of Aluminum Window Frames." Nordic Journal of Building Physics 3 (2003) 1-12.

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