Researchers found that warmer local sea surfaces increase the winter snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains, but reduce snowpack in the Cascade range.

Field campaign data shows that biologically-derived emissions largely control the formation of organic aerosol in the Southern Great Plains.

Analytical chemist shares passion for STEM, innovation and nuclear fuel

Researchers developed a novel database of global mesoscale convective systems to reveal storm characteristics and rainfall contributions.

Spent nuclear fuel is being recycled to make new fuel through rapid separation and tight control of uranium and plutonium.

Adding an advanced atmospheric aerosol treatment to a climate model enables assessments of the radiative effects of nitrate aerosols.

A PNNL article on developments in ceramics and glass for sustainable energy also highlights research staff—and earns a journal cover.

A recently developed laboratory-based technique allows researchers to quantify aerosol absorption from field campaign samples.

Researchers developed a strategy for quantifying the numerical errors in global simulations of atmospheric clouds and attributing them to components in the computational model.

By improving the detail in representations of turbulence, researchers can more accurately simulate agricultural soil emissions in the atmosphere.

A new decomposition method allows scientists to unravel the atmosphere-ice-ocean interactions that drive Arctic sea ice changes under increasing carbon dioxide levels.

The persistent double-ITCZ bias in Earth system models influences projections of future precipitation in regions that are already under severe water stress.

Easy-to-use web-based version of the “hector” global climate model emulator now available for researchers and Earth science educators.

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.

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

Three unused, 48,000-pound stainless steel canisters arrived at PNNL, bringing the chance to deepen research in spent nuclear fuel storage and transportation.

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.

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