Partitioning measured ice nucleating particle concentrations into individual particle types leads to a better understanding of the sources and model representations of these particles.

A modeling study finds that multiple factors almost perfectly balance under anthropogenic greenhouse gas forcing, leaving no footprint on the dynamically induced ocean heat storage in the Southern Ocean.

Variations in the level of market globalization can greatly affect the amount of water required to meet future global demand for agricultural commodities.

Climate change and socioeconomic pressures are transforming passenger and freight transportation in the Arctic, producing effects that have yet to be fully understood.

Testing the assumption that different future socio-economic development patterns, which result in different land-use changes, can be paired with different future climate outcomes for risk assessments in a multi-model framework.

A poem inspired by radioactive tank waste—“Can a Scientist Dream it Alone?”—was awarded first place in the Department of Energy’s Poetry of Science Art Contest.

Incorporating spatially explicit land characteristics in a global model illustrates the complex effects of applying uniform regional protection assumptions in a global analysis.

PNNL is honoring its postdoctoral researchers as part of the fourteenth annual National Postdoc Appreciation Week with seven profiles of postdocs from around the Laboratory.

Harnessing machine learning to enhance plant coexistence in a vegetation demographic model.

Researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory created and embedded a physics-informed deep neural network that can learn as it processes data.

Different sources of low-level moisture perturbation can result in differences in the timing and location of a large, modeled storm.

Bradley Crowell with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission sees advanced materials integrity, radiological measurement, and environmental capabilities on his first visit to PNNL.

A holistic evaluation of the uncertainty sources that arise from configuring the model to processing the output for global variable-resolution models.

Randomly constructed neural networks can learn how to represent light interacting with atmospheric aerosols accurately at a low computational cost and improve climate modeling capabilities.

A success story of applying convergence testing to detect and address issues of numerical discretization in nonlinear representations of turbulence and clouds.

Researchers found a 150-day period in Antarctic circulation, something that many current climate models do not represent accurately.

A new open-source feature tracking package is now available to facilitate advanced model evaluation, model development efforts, and scientific discovery.

PNNL welcomes six Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research awardees from across the nation.

IDREAM research shows that keeping only the most important two- and three-body terms in reactive force fields can decrease computational cost by one order of magnitude, while preserving satisfactory accuracy.

Models show that in a warmer climate, the 2012 North American derecho would shrink and decay earlier in Mid-Atlantic coastal areas.