Researchers are developing an understanding of how either wet or dry soil patches change the sizes of atmospheric eddies and cloud clusters.

DOE Integrated Lighting Campaign organizers introduce new recognition categories in horticulture, innovative financing, and energy equity.

PNNL scientists reveal that climate change will increase lake evaporation most dramatically in the Mediterranean, Southeast China, and Tropical America.

A study raises questions about how far droplets, like those that carry the virus that causes COVID-19, can travel before becoming harmless.

The overlooked impact of regional hydroclimate changes on lake evaporation implies more robust regional lake volume changes around the globe.

Sam Rosenberg, a data research scientist in the Energy and Environment Directorate at PNNL, has been appointed voting member of the Regional Technical Forum for the Northwest Power Conservation Council.

Reimagining the United States power grid could save consumers $50 billion a year.

PNNL researchers develop software that uses geographical data to build a free, open-source grid reference system to provide a precise system to locate structures.

Changes in the downward flow of infrared energy in clear skies are a key factor influencing recent rapid wintertime Arctic warming.

Ensembles of 20–25 members, notably smaller than traditional large ensembles, can accurately represent changes in extremes of temperature and precipitation.

From water purification, to better batteries and tools to foil a cyberattack—a look back at how PNNL helped to invent a brighter and better future over the last year.

Researchers developed a new model to understand the initiation of summer-time mesoscale convective systems over the central United States.

PNNL wins three FLC awards in annual technology innovation competition.

Implementing and evaluating a new radiative transfer scheme that accounts for various topographic effects on solar radiation in an Earth system model.

PNNL researchers uncover the mechanics behind dwindling Arctic sea ice and its influence on wildfire weather in the western United States.

Human-machine teaming may sound like something from the distant future. In “Human-Machine Teaming: A Vision of Future Law Enforcement” in Domestic Preparedness, Corey Fallon, Kris Cook, and Grant Tietje of PNNL examine this topic.

Better representing cloud microphysics can Reduce model bias in simulating mesoscale convective system precipitation.

What’s at the heart of California’s uncertain future precipitation? New study finds natural cycles are likely cause.

New analysis demonstrates that the Madden-Julian Oscillation can influence tropical cyclones in the Pacific through both the atmosphere and the ocean.

PNNL’s Angela Becker-Dippmann received a CleanTech Alliance 2021 Leadership Achievement Award at the virtual Energy Leadership Summit on November 9.