Building & Industrial Energy Systems Division

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.

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Levinson, Ronnen M, and Hashem Akbari. "Potential benefits of cool roofs on commercial buildings: conserving energy, saving money, and reducing emission of greenhouse gases and air pollutants." Energy Efficiency 3.1 (2010) 53–109.

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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.

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Kaarsberg, Tina, and Hashem Akbari. "Cool Roofs Cool the Planet." Home Energy 2006: 38–41.

Levinson, Ronnen M, Heng Pan, George A Ban-Weiss, Pablo J Rosado, Riccardo Paolini, and Hashem Akbari. "Potential benefits of solar reflective car shells: Cooler cabins, fuel savings and emission reductions." Applied Energy 88.12 (2011) 4343–4357.

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Webber, Carrie A, and Richard E Brown. "Savings Potential of Energy Star Voluntary Labeling Programs." 1998 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Pacific Grove, CA, 1998.

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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Akbari, Hashem, Yu Joe Huang, Haider Taha, and Arthur H Rosenfeld. "The potential of vegetation in reducing summer cooling loads in residential buildings." Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology 26.9 (1987) 1103–1116.

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Levinson, Ronnen M. "Near-Ground Cooling Efficacies of Trees and High-Albedo Surfaces." University of California, Berkeley, 1997.

Taha, Haider, Hillel Hammer, and Hashem Akbari. Meteorological and air quality impacts of increased urban albedo and vegetative cover in the greater Toronto Area, Canada. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2002.

Taha, Haider. "Modeling impacts of increased urban vegetation on ozone air quality in the South Coast Air Basin." Atmospheric Environment 30 (1996) 3423–3430.

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Huang, Yu Joe, Hashem Akbari, and Haider Taha. "The wind-shielding and shading effects of trees on residential heating and cooling requirements." Proceedings of the ASHRAE Winter Conference 1990: 11–14.

Taha, Haider, Sharon Douglas, and Jay Haney. "Mesoscale meteorological and air quality impacts of increased urban albedo and vegetation." Energy and Buildings 25.2 (1997) 169–177.

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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.

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Sailor, David J, Leo I Rainer, and Hashem Akbari. "Measured impact of neighborhood tree cover on microclimate." 1992 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 1992: 149–158.

Kurn, Dan M, Sarah E Bretz, Benson Huang, and Hashem Akbari. The potential for reducing urban air temperatures and energy consumption through vegetative cooling. 1994.

Akbari, Hashem. "Shade trees reduce building energy use and CO₂ emissions from power plants." Environmental Pollution 116.1 (2002) S119-S126.

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Akbari, Hashem, Arthur H Rosenfeld, and Haider Taha. "Summer heat islands, urban trees, and white surfaces." Proceedings of the 1990 ASHRAE Winter Conference 1990.

Rosenfeld, Arthur H, Joseph J Romm, Hashem Akbari, Melvin Pomerantz, and Haider Taha. "Policies to reduce heat islands: Magnitudes of benefits and incentives to achieve them." 1996 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. 18th ed. Vol. 9. Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA, 1996. 177–186.

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).

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