Three-year weathering tests on asphalt shingles: Solar reflectance

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 99, Issue , 2012, Pages 277-281

  Berdahl, Paul ^a   Akbari, Hashem ^b   Levinson, Ronnen ^a   Jacobs, Jeffry ^c   Klink, Frank ^c   Everman, Rebecca ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^c 3M COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asphalt shingles; Cyanobacteria; Solar reflectance; Weathering

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; ASPHALT SHINGLES; ATMOSPHERIC DUST; CALIFORNIA; CYANOBACTERIA; HOT HUMID CLIMATE; HOUSTON; INORGANIC METAL OXIDES; PHYSICAL CHANGES; REFLECTANCE CHANGES; SOLAR REFLECTANCE;

ASPHALT; BUILDING MATERIALS; GRANULATION; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; RAIN; WEATHERING; WOOLEN AND WORSTED FABRICS;

REFLECTION;

EID: 84856558121     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2011.12.010     Document Type: Article

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