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.

A computationally efficient calibration procedure helps constrain simulated runoff in an Earth system model.

Existing clouds affect the growth of neighboring clouds.

PNNL’s ARENA test bed analyzes how electrical cables degrade in extreme environments and how nondestructive examination inspection technologies can detect and locate damage.

Assessing observed weather conditions that support or suppress the growth of clouds into deep precipitating storms during the Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions experiment.

Multiple concurrent single-particle measurements help develop a quantitative and predictive understanding of secondary organic aerosols.

Applying a novel framework to a climate model reveals new characteristics about how elevated concentrations of aerosols affect clouds.

A review describes the latest techniques for simulating hydropower at large scales to inform power grid planning and operations.

Hydropower generation estimated using water proxy data leads to a revision of the nation’s historical seasonal hydropower output.

A new model uses machine learning to project electricity loads across the United States.

Watershed hydrological responses are sensitive to the spatial and temporal resolution of the gridded meteorological forcing used in simulations.

A deep learning model overcomes persistent challenges in emulating long-term simulations of secondary organic aerosols.

A combined experimental and theoretical study identified multiple interactions that affect the performance of redox-active metal oxides for potential electrochemical separation and quantum computing applications.

The frequency and intensity of storms affecting U.S. coastal areas will likely increase in a warming world.

Researchers investigated the impact of using constant versus spatially varying crop parameters on carbon and energy fluxes in a realistic crop rotation scenario.

Irradiated boehmite nanoplatelets form smaller aggregates and have a rougher surface than non-irradiated platelets.

Water affects the intermediates present on the surface of a metal oxide catalyst during ketonization.

Future global warming-induced changes to watershed and coastal processes can significantly affect the magnitude of fluvial-coastal compound flooding.

Information encoded in streamflow reveals how the water-storage capacity of thawed ground changes as permafrost thaws.