Publications
Publications By Research Area
2023
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). DOI
2021
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. DOI
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. DOI
2019
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). DOI
Levinson, Ronnen M, George A Ban-Weiss, Paul Berdahl, Sharon S Chen, Hugo Destaillats, Nathalie Dumas, Haley E Gilbert, Howdy Goudey, Sébastien Houzé de l’Aulnoit, Jan Kleissl, Benjamin Kurtz, Yun Li, Yan Long, Arash Mohegh, Negin Nazarian, Matteo Pizzicotti, Pablo J Rosado, Marion L Russell, Jonathan L Slack, Xiaochen Tang, Jiachen Zhang, and Weilong Zhang."Solar-Reflective “Cool” Walls: Benefits, Technologies, and Implementation."
(2019). DOI
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). DOI
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).
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. DOI
Gilbert, Haley E, Pablo J Rosado, George A Ban-Weiss, John T Harvey, Hui Li, Benjamin H Mandel, Dev Millstein, Arash Mohegh, Arash Saboori, and Ronnen M Levinson."Energy and environmental consequences of a cool pavement campaign."
(2017).
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).
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).
Berdahl, Paul H, Sharon S Chen, Hugo Destaillats, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Ronnen M Levinson, and Michael A Zalich."Fluorescent Cooling of Objects Exposted to Sunlight - The Ruby Example."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
157 (2016) 312-317. DOI
2015
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. DOI
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. DOI
Gilbert, Haley E, Benjamin H Mandel, and Ronnen M Levinson."Keeping California cool: Recent cool community developments."Energy and Buildings
(2015). DOI
2014
Gao, Yafeng, Jiangmin Xu, Shichao Yang, Xiaomin Tang, Quan Zhou, Jing Ge, Tengfang T Xu, and Ronnen M Levinson."Cool Roofs in China: Policy Review, Building Simulations, and Proof-Of-Concept Experiments."Energy Policy
74 (2014) 190-214. DOI
Rosado, Pablo J, David Faulkner, Douglas P Sullivan, and Ronnen M Levinson."Measured temperature reductions and energy savings from a cool tile roof on a central California home."Energy and Buildings
80 (2014). DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
2013
Ban-Weiss, George A, Craig P Wray, William W Delp, Peter Ly, Hashem Akbari, and Ronnen M Levinson."Electricity production and cooling energy savings from installation of a building-integrated photovoltaic roof on an office building."Energy and Buildings
56 (2013) 210 - 220. DOI
2012
2011
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. DOI
Menon, Surabi, and Ronnen M Levinson."Cool roofs and global cooling: a response to Jacobson & Ten Hoeve (2011)."
(2011).
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. DOI
2010
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. DOI