JUNE 24, 2022 Research Highlight A Tool for Exploring State-Level Changes Across Multiple Systems An improved model captures the interactions between the U.S. economy, energy, water, and land systems with increased spatial and temporal detail. ( Read More )
JUNE 24, 2022 Research Highlight Better Calibration Leads to a Significant Improvement in Model Fidelity Recalibrating both cloud and subgrid representations improves model projections of the base climate, aerosol-cloud interactions, and cloud feedbacks. ( Read More )
JUNE 15, 2022 Article PNNL’s Climate Research Inspires Artist A climate change study co-authored by PNNL scientist Hailong Wang inspired an artist to create an exhibit based on the research. ( Read More )
JUNE 14, 2022 Research Highlight Online Diagnostics Make Analyzing Modeled Atmospheric Processes Easier and More Efficient A newly developed tool helps researchers analyze process-level relationships within atmospheric models. ( Read More )
MAY 20, 2022 Research Highlight Jet Shift Causes Seasonally Dependent Future Changes in Midwest Hydroclimate A global warming-induced poleward shift of the westerly jet affects the hydroclimate of the U.S. Midwest differently in the spring and summer. ( Read More )
MAY 20, 2022 Research Highlight Record Regional Rainfall Linked to COVID-Induced Aerosol Emissions Reduction The COVID-19 pandemic massively disrupted human activities, which caused additional turmoil through regional record rainfall and floods. ( Read More )
MAY 2, 2022 Research Highlight Ion Filtering Improves Detection of Proteins in Single Cells PNNL scientists have developed a new mass spectrometry method for in-depth analysis of proteins in individual cells. ( Read More )
APRIL 27, 2022 Research Highlight Generating Robust Precipitation Projections from Climate Models The climate models best at simulating current precipitation and its drivers show more consensus in projecting future precipitation. ( Read More )
APRIL 19, 2022 Research Highlight Proteomics Reveals How Drug Delays Early Onset Type 1 Diabetes Proteomics revealed molecular mechanisms by which the drug Verapamil could prolong beta cell function in early-onset type 1 diabetes patients. ( Read More )
APRIL 12, 2022 Research Highlight Reviewing Urban Impact on Regional Climate and Extreme Weather Examining the vast scientific literature about the urban impact on weather and climate enabled researchers to synthesize current understanding and to inform future work. ( Read More )
MARCH 29, 2022 Research Highlight The Gut Microbiome Modifies Host Response to Environmental Exposures Study highlights microbiome’s role in regulating xenobiotic metabolism. ( Read More )
MARCH 24, 2022 Research Highlight Smaller-Scale Models Better Represent Pouring Rain over the Amazon State-of-the-art numerical models can better simulate the convective clouds that produce most of the Amazon’s wet season rainfall. ( Read More )
MARCH 24, 2022 Research Highlight Benchmarking the Community Land Model Over the Contiguous United States Researchers used ground-based and remote-sensed datasets to comprehensively validate a tool for simulating land surface processes. ( Read More )
MARCH 18, 2022 Research Highlight A High-Performance Miniature Ion Mobility Spectrometer Development of a one-meter path length miniature ion mobility spectrometer based on multilevel structures for lossless ion manipulations. ( Read More )
MARCH 7, 2022 Research Highlight Representing River Networks in an Unstructured Mesh Framework A new hexagonal framework helps more accurately model watersheds at a range of scales. ( Read More )
MARCH 2, 2022 Research Highlight Predicting How Soil Microbes Breathe: Diffusion Limitations Matter Study reveals importance of accounting for micrometer scale distribution of substrates to predict carbon emissions from soil. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 21, 2022 Research Highlight A Global Soil Erosion and Sediment Flux Model Developing a model for global soil erosion and sediment flux to advance understanding of land, river, and ocean geomorphology and biogeochemistry. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 17, 2022 Research Highlight How Does Soil Water Make Eddies and Clouds Larger? Researchers are developing an understanding of how either wet or dry soil patches change the sizes of atmospheric eddies and cloud clusters. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 11, 2022 Research Highlight Regional Hydroclimate Changes Shape Spatial Pattern of Future Lake Evaporation Increases The overlooked impact of regional hydroclimate changes on lake evaporation implies more robust regional lake volume changes around the globe. ( Read More )
JANUARY 28, 2022 Research Highlight Urine Proteomics Reveal Acute Kidney Injury as a Result of COVID-19 Researchers characterize protein signatures that indicate Acute Kidney Injury in COVID-19 patients. ( Read More )