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X Author: Ronnen M Levinson
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). DOI
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).
2023
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). DOI
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). DOI
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
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). 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
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). DOI
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). 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
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). DOI
Singh, Reshma, Mary Ann Piette, Ashok J Gadgil, Rajan Rawal, Narendra Bansal, Vishal Garg, Jyotirmay Mathur, Philip Haves, Paul A Mathew, Christian Kohler, Mahabir Bhandari, Gail Brager, Vivian Loftness, Narendran Nadarajah, Ronnen M Levinson, Richard E Brown, Andre Desjarlais, Milind Rane, Sanyogita Manu, Yash Shukla, and Mona Doctor-Pingel."R&D and Implementation Outcomes From The U.S.-India Bilateral Center For Building Energy Research And Development Program."
(2019). DOI
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, 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
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. 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).
Ge, Jing, and Ronnen M Levinson."The Advancement of Cool Roof Standards in China from 2010 to 2015."
(2016).
Less, Brennan, Iain S Walker, and Ronnen M Levinson."A Literature Review of Sealed and Insulated Attics—Thermal, Moisture and Energy Performance."
(2016). DOI
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