Scientists devised a new energetic framework that enables them to decipher the patterns of Asian summer rainfall.

A new high-spatiotemporal resolution dataset of convective systems allows researchers to better study warm season storms in the U.S.

PNNL’s cultural resources team has worked on Tribal relations projects across the U.S. to navigate potential impacts of complex energy siting efforts.

Merging long-term records of aerosol loading to create a high-quality, useful dataset for a continental site.

The urbanization of Kansas City changed the path, intensified, and increased large hail production in a studied severe convective storm.

Research provides overview of the consequences of a new set of future scenarios based on Earth system model simulations.

Quantifying the future energy requirements of agricultural, industrial, and municipal water sector use.

Calculating the multi-region and multisector effects of water scarcity for thousands of possible future socioeconomic, climate, and hydrologic scenarios.

Developing solutions and capabilities to advance environmental justice with 25 years of hands-on, multidisciplinary experience nationwide.

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

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.

PNNL streamlines environmental review process for advanced reactors, saving years and millions of dollars toward deployments of new nuclear power projects.

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

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.

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.