Publications
Characterizing the fabric of the urban environment: a case study of metropolitan Chicago, Illinois. 2001. LBNL-49275.
. "Hashem Akbari speaks to BBC Radio World Service about global cooling." BBC. 2009. Television.
. "Urban Surfaces and Heat Island Mitigation Potentials." Journal of the Human-Environmental System 11.2 (2008) 85-101.
. "Proceedings of the Workshop on Cool Building Materials." Workshop on Cool Building Materials, National Institute of Standards and Technology 1994. LBL-35514.
. "Cool surfaces and shade trees to reduce energy use and improve air quality in urban areas." Solar Energy 70 (2001) 295-310.
. "The effect of variations in convection coefficients on thermal energy storage in buildings Part II — Exterior massive walls and simulations." Energy and Buildings 10.1 (1987) 29-47.
. "Energy efficiency for fueling the world." Proceedings of the Energy Conservation in Buildings Workshop 2003.
. "The impact of trees and white surfaces on residential heating and cooling energy use in four Canadian cities." Energy 17 (1992) 141-149.
. "Performance evaluation of thermal energy storage systems." Energy and Buildings 22 (1995) 15-24.
. "Summer heat islands, urban trees, and white surfaces." Proceedings of the 1990 ASHRAE Winter Conference 1990.
. "Cooling down the house: residential roofing products soon will boast "cool" surfaces." Professional Roofing March (2005).
. "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.
. "Evolution of cool roof standards in the United States." Advances in Building Energy Research 2.1 (2008) 1-32. LBNL-736E.
. . "Cool systems for hot cities." Professional Roofing 32-35 (1998) 1-5. LBL-43814.
. "Cool construction materials offer energy savings and help reduce smog." ASTM Standardization News 23 (1995) 32-37.
. "Monitoring the energy-use effects of cool roofs on California commercial buildings." Energy and Buildings 37.10 (2005) 1007-1016.
. "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.
. "Calculations in support of SSP 90.1 for reflective roofs." ASHRAE Transactions 104.1A (1998) 984-995.
. "Analysis of energy use in building services of the industrial sector in California: two case studies." Energy and Buildings 19 (1992) 133-141.
. "Validation of an algorithm to disaggregate whole-building hourly electrical load into end uses." Energy 20 (1995) 1291-1301.
. "Potentials of urban heat island mitigation." Proceedings of the 1st International Passive and Low Energy Cooling for the Built Evironment 2005: 11.
. . "Peak power and cooling energy savings of high-albedo roofs." Energy and Buildings 25 (1997) 117-126.
. Status of cool roof standards in the United States. Berkeley, CA: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2008.
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