Regional climate consequences of large-scale cool roof and photovoltaic array deployment

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Millstein, Dev ^a   Menon, Surabi ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 80053503598     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/3/034001     Document Type: Article

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