A process developed at PNNL that converts biomass and waste into a chemical intermediate or into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel is available for commercial licensing.

Assessing a complex concert of the weather and terrain conditions that affect the growth of cumulus clouds into deep thunderstorms along mountain ranges.

Tropical cyclones induce sea surface cooling, but their associated heavy rainfall reduces the effect through increased ocean mixing.

Researchers studied water cycling to assess the achievability of net-zero water usage at military installations in the Pacific Islands.

Relaxing the simplifying assumptions in model energy budgets can affect their simulated regional water cycles.

A novel combination of temperature and four-dimensional geophysical sensors revealed otherwise unseeable hydrologic dynamics below riverbed sediments.

Dominant and functionally important soil microbes show strong, predictable, and distinctly different associations with continental-scale gradients in climate, vegetation, and soil moisture.

New research quantifies the discrepancies between ground measurements of soil respiration and satellite estimates of photosynthesis.

PNNL scientists have proposed an "adaptive site management" cleanup strategy for the Hanford Site's Central Plateau that incorporates a structured, flexible approach to environmental remediation.

The Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines initiative recently outlined six years of research in a findings and impact report.

Researchers at PNNL are developing a better model of the soil, better representing the atmosphere, and identifying sources of record high rainfall within a model of the Earth system.

An improved model captures the interactions between the U.S. economy, energy, water, and land systems with increased spatial and temporal detail.

Recalibrating both cloud and subgrid representations improves model projections of the base climate, aerosol-cloud interactions, and cloud feedbacks.

A climate change study co-authored by PNNL scientist Hailong Wang inspired an artist to create an exhibit based on the research.

New report takes a comprehensive look at offshore aquaculture as a market for marine energy.

A newly developed tool helps researchers analyze process-level relationships within atmospheric models.

A novel database of tracked deep convective storms reveals how environmental factors affect storm formation and growth in South America.

Scientists from PNNL and the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Forest Services’ Pacific Northwest Research Station have partnered to evaluate potential climate and wildfire adaptation scenarios and resulting benefits from restoration forestry.

Soil transplant experiment gives new insights into coastal forest resilience, rising seas, and increasing storms.

Investigating cloud condensation nuclei activities in various airmasses enabled linking activity variations with organic oxidation levels and volatility