Ronnen M Levinson

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2024

Muehleisen, Ralph, Ji-Hyun Kim, Carolyn Szum, Ronnen M Levinson, Zhaoyun Zeng, H Kim, Bruce Hamilton, and Mark Lister. Cost-Benefit Analysis For Indonesia Building Sector: Whole-Building Cooling Solutions. 2024.

Robinson, Alastair, Samuel Fernandes, Tianzhen Hong, Sang Hoon Lee, Ronnen M Levinson, and Mary Ann Piette. Potential Urban Heat Island Countermeasures and Building Energy Efficiency Improvements in Los Angeles County. 2024.

2022

Tang, Xiaochen, Lara Ughetta, Rachael A.T Gould, Rebecca L.A Everman, Taisiya Skorina, Sharon S Chen, Maureen Kavanagh, Ronnen M Levinson, and Hugo Destaillats. "Pilot-scale NOx removal efficacy of photocatalytic roofing granules under urban environmental conditions." Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 247 (2022).

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2023

Lee, Sang Hoon, and Ronnen M Levinson. "Cool envelope benefits in future typical weather and heatwave conditions for single-family homes in Los Angeles." 2023.

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Levinson, Ronnen M, Mansour Alhazmi, Jackson Becce, Andre Desjarlais, Haley E Gilbert, Greg Kats, Jacob Miller, Emily Morin, David J Sailor, and Sarah Schneider. United States Cool Surfaces Deployment Plan. 2023.

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Levinson, Ronnen M, Edward A Arens, Emmanuel Bozonnet, Vincenzo Corrado, Haley E Gilbert, Peter Holzer, Pierre Jaboyedoff, Amanda Krelling, Anaïs Machard, Wendy Miller, Mamak P.Tootkaboni, Stephen E Selkowitz, and Hui Zhang. Policy Recommendations from IEA EBC Annex 80: Resilient Cooling of Buildings. 2023.

2021

Celniker, Chloe, Sharon S Chen, Alan K Meier, and Ronnen M Levinson. "Targeting buildings for energy-saving cool-wall retrofits: a case study at the University of California, Davis." Energy and Buildings 249 (2021) 111014.

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Sun, Kaiyu, Wanni Zhang, Zhaoyun Zeng, Ronnen M Levinson, Max Wei, and Tianzhen Hong. "Passive cooling designs to improve heat resilience of homes in underserved and vulnerable communities." Energy and Buildings 252 (2021) 111383.

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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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2019

Tang, Xiaochen, Lara Ughetta, Simon K Shannon, Sharon S Chen, Sébastien Houzé de l’Aulnoit, Rachael A.T Gould, Marion L Russell, Jiachen Zhang, George A Ban-Weiss, Rebecca L.A Everman, Frank W Klink, Ronnen M Levinson, and Hugo Destaillats. "De-pollution efficacy of photocatalytic roofing granules." Building and Environment 160 (2019).

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Gilbert, Haley E, Tom Jacobs, Seongeun Jeong, Melvin Pomerantz, Dev Millstein, Doug Norsby, Andrea Repinsky, and Ronnen M Levinson. Heat Island Mitigation Assessment and Policy Development for the Kansas City Region. 2019.

Less, Brennan, Iain S Walker, Jonathan L Slack, Leo I Rainer, and Ronnen M Levinson. Sealed and Insulated Attic Hygrothermal Performance in New California Homes Using Vapor and Air Permeable Insulation—Field Study and Simulations. 2019.

Levinson, Ronnen M, Howdy Goudey, Sharon S Chen, Haley E Gilbert, George A Ban-Weiss, Joseph Ko, Yun Li, Arash Mohegh, Angie Rodriguez, Jonathan L Slack, Haider Taha, Tianbo Tang, and Jiachen Zhang. Monitoring the Urban Heat Island Effect and the Efficacy of Future Countermeasures. 2019.

2020

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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2018

Chen, Sharon S, Hugo Destaillats, Jing Ge, and Ronnen M Levinson. Calibration of laboratory aging practice to replicate changes to roof albedo in a Chinese city. 2018.

2016

Less, Brennan, Iain S Walker, and Ronnen M Levinson. A Literature Review of Sealed and Insulated Attics—Thermal, Moisture and Energy Performance. 2016.

Levinson, Ronnen M, Sharon S Chen, George A Ban-Weiss, Haley E Gilbert, Paul H Berdahl, Pablo J Rosado, Hugo Destaillats, Mohamad Sleiman, and Thomas W Kirchstetter. Next-Generation Factory-Produced Cool Asphalt Shingles: Phase 1 Final Report. 2016.

Ge, Jing, and Ronnen M Levinson. The Advancement of Cool Roof Standards in China from 2010 to 2015. 2016.

2015

Cao, Meichun, Pablo J Rosado, Zhaohui Lin, Ronnen M Levinson, and Dev Millstein. "Cool Roofs in Guangzhou, China: Outdoor Air Temperature Reductions during Heat Waves and Typical Summer Conditions." Environmental Science & Technology 49.24 (2015) 14672–14679.

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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.

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2017

Gao, Yafeng, Dachuan Shi, Ronnen M Levinson, Rui Guo, Changqing Lin, and Jing Ge. "Thermal performance and energy savings of white and sedum-tray garden roof: A case study in a Chongqing office building." Energy and Buildings 156 (2017) 343–359.

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Mohegh, Arash, Pablo J Rosado, Ling Jin, Dev Millstein, Ronnen M Levinson, and George A Ban-Weiss. "Modeling the climate impacts of deploying solar reflective cool pavements in California cities." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 122.13 (2017) 6798–6817.

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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.