The COVID-19 pandemic massively disrupted human activities, which caused additional turmoil through regional record rainfall and floods.

Top scientists and officials from government, academia, Alaskan Native communities, and industry are heading to Alaska to focus on driving energy technologies for a more sustainable Arctic region.

The climate models best at simulating current precipitation and its drivers show more consensus in projecting future precipitation.

New facility will accelerate energy storage innovation, increase clean energy adoption and grid resilience.

Examining the vast scientific literature about the urban impact on weather and climate enabled researchers to synthesize current understanding and to inform future work.

Scientists have created a battery designed for the electric grid that locks in energy for months without losing much storage capacity.

State-of-the-art numerical models can better simulate the convective clouds that produce most of the Amazon’s wet season rainfall.

Researchers used ground-based and remote-sensed datasets to comprehensively validate a tool for simulating land surface processes.

Recognizing how innovation and clean technologies at the very edge of the grid can work together to transition the electricity system, PNNL takes a multidisciplinary approach to advancing and integrating renewable energy solutions.

A new hexagonal framework helps more accurately model watersheds at a range of scales.

Study reveals importance of accounting for micrometer scale distribution of substrates to predict carbon emissions from soil.

Technology designed to bolster the electric grid and store large amounts of energy from renewable sources is available for licensing.

PNNL scientist Brian O’Neill led the compilation of an IPCC chapter about climate-related risks.

Developing a model for global soil erosion and sediment flux to advance understanding of land, river, and ocean geomorphology and biogeochemistry.

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

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

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

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.

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