Global cooling: Increasing world-wide urban albedos to offset CO 2

Climatic Change

Volumn 94, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 275-286

  Akbari, Hashem ^a   Menon, Surabi ^a   Rosenfeld, Arthur ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMMISSION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION OFFSETS; GLOBAL COOLING; GLOBAL SCALE; RADIATIVE FORCING; REFLECTIVE MATERIALS; URBAN AREAS; URBAN SURFACES;

AIR QUALITY; COOLING; GAS ABSORPTION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; PAVEMENTS; RADIATION EFFECTS; ROOFS; SUN; SURFACES;

SOLAR RADIATION;

AIR QUALITY; ALBEDO; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COOLING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GREENHOUSE GAS; PAVEMENT; RADIATIVE FORCING; URBAN AREA;

EID: 67349258110     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-008-9515-9     Document Type: Article

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