The Quick Building Assessment Tool is a simplified building energy analysis tool designed specifically for users with no experience in buildings.

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

PNNL’s building science research and technology deployment initiatives were highlighted at the HUD Innovative Housing Showcase.

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.

The PNNL-managed Building America Solution Center translates research into actionable considerations for homeowners and builders to provide two solutions in one: increasing energy efficiency while also enhancing disaster resistance.

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.

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

A PNNL team’s analysis of new-housing data concludes that single-family homes in lower-income counties are less energy-code-compliant than in higher-income counties, a finding that could shape strategies for enhanced code adoption.

Developed a data-assimilation method based on physics-informed deep learning to resolve downscaled flow fields within a large-scale river model.

Unveiling diverse scenarios and implications for water resource management in a rapidly changing world.

Quantifying the long-term destination of anthropogenic emissions and robustness of global carbon sinks.

New study identifies crucial factors for more accurate hydrological predictions in the Community Land Model version 5.

Groundwater modeling of irrigation return flow dynamics is important for improving estimates of water availability.

The complex interactions between the land and atmosphere can affect cloud growth.

The Great Plains and Great Lakes regions are the major sources of moisture for the precipitation that falls in the Great Lakes region.

A team of researchers at PNNL designed and constructed an atmospheric chamber to simulate the fate of volatile and semivolatile radioisotopes.