Building Technology and Urban Systems Division

Akbari, Hashem, and Leanna S Rose. "Urban Surfaces and Heat Island Mitigation Potentials." Journal of the Human-Environmental System 11.2 (2008) 85–101.

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Akbari, Hashem, Leanna S Rose, and Haider Taha. "Analyzing the land cover of an urban environment using high-resolution orthophotos." Landscape and Urban Planning 63.1 (2003) 1–14.

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Huang, Yu Joe, Susan Davis, and Hashem Akbari. "A guidebook for the control of summer heat islands." 1990 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 1990: 79–85.

Akbari, Hashem, and Sarah E Bretz. "Cool systems for hot cities." Professional Roofing 32-35 (1998) 1–5.

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Levinson, Ronnen M, Paul H Berdahl, Hashem Akbari, William A Miller, Ingo Joedicke, Joseph C Reilly, Yoshi Suzuki, and Michelle Vondran. "Methods of creating solar-reflective nonwhite surfaces and their application to residential roofing materials." Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 91.4 (2007) 304–314.

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Berdahl, Paul H, Hashem Akbari, Jeffry Jacobs, and Frank Klink. "Surface roughness effects on the solar reflectance of cool asphalt shingles." Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 92.4 (2008) 482–489.

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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.

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Akbari, Hashem, Ronnen M Levinson, and Paul H Berdahl. A Review of Methods for the Manufacture of Residential Roofing Materials. 2003.

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.

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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.

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Levinson, Ronnen M, Hashem Akbari, and Paul H Berdahl. "Measuring solar reflectance—Part I: Defining a metric that accurately predicts solar heat gain." Solar Energy 84.9 (2010) 1717–1744.

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Levinson, Ronnen M, Hashem Akbari, and Paul H Berdahl. "Measuring solar reflectance—Part II: Review of practical methods." Solar Energy 84.9 (2010) 1745–1759.

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Akbari, Hashem, Mashuri Warren, Anibal T De Almeida, Deborah J Connell, and Jeffrey P Harris. "Use of energy management systems for performance monitoring of industrial load-shaping measures." Energy 13 (1988) 253–263.

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Akbari, Hashem, and Osman Sezgen. "Performance evaluation of thermal energy storage systems." Energy and Buildings 22 (1995) 15–24.

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Akbari, Hashem. "Validation of an algorithm to disaggregate whole-building hourly electrical load into end uses." Energy 20 (1995) 1291–1301.

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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.

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Akbari, Hashem, Surabi Menon, and Arthur H Rosenfeld. Equivalent CO₂ avoided by reflective roofs and pavements in California. 2008.

Akbari, Hashem. "Hashem Akbari speaks to BBC Radio World Service about global cooling." BBC. 2009. Television.

Akbari, Hashem, Surabi Menon, and Arthur H Rosenfeld. "Global cooling: effect of urban albedo on global temperature." 2nd PALENC and 28th AIVC Conference. Crete, 2007. 1–5.

Akbari, Hashem, and Steven J Konopacki. Streamlined energy-savings calculations for heat-island reduction strategies. 2003.