Using a physically-advanced modeling scheme shows that anthropogenic aerosols significantly enhance the convective intensity and precipitation of storms

The newly developed Hector user interface (hectorui), a web-based app, provides access to the Hector climate model to anyone with a web browser.

An updated version of a widely used database will provide powerful insights into the global carbon cycle.

A newly developed diagnostic framework helps explain an origin of the persistent “double ITCZ” error in many climate models.

An overview of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model project describing its goals, science drivers, and development and highlighting its key findings.

A new framework facilitates scenario evaluation of models with high regional detail—a key component for credible analysis.

Decadal variations in the tropical ocean warming pattern have previously masked but will later amplify the anthropogenically forced changes in the tropical rainband.

Scientists used the strength of land-atmosphere coupling to improve predictions of East Asian summer monsoon rainfall.

A new type of ice chamber allows researchers to understand how ice forms on atmospheric aerosol particles.

Current representations of shallow clouds in climate models have biases that lead to inaccuracies in models.

Variability in field measurement conditions likely does not impact estimates of an important flux in the global carbon cycle.

A new process-oriented diagnostic approach provides new insights into simulated storms and their environments.

Demonstrating methods for using a portable optical particle spectrometer, a miniaturized and highly sensitive instrument, to measure atmospheric aerosol size distributions.

Satellite observations provide insight into the processes that control the spatial distributions of dust in global climate models.

Scientists discovered that a warming climate delays monsoonal rain, but only over land.

Introducing a publicly available and global gridded high-resolution land use dataset based on diverse future socioeconomic and climate scenarios.

New mathematical tools developed at PNNL hold promise to transform the way we operate and defend complex cyber-physical systems, such as the power grid.

Regional climate models reveal irrigation’s role in strong precipitation and low-level winds across the Central United States.

Comparing large datasets from coordinated aircraft flights provides critical information about data researcher use in a range of analyses.

Urbanization-induced land cover and anthropogenic aerosol changes result in stronger thunderstorms with enhanced precipitation in the Houston area.