JUNE 20, 2023 Research Highlight What Controls the Fate of Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide? Quantifying the long-term destination of anthropogenic emissions and robustness of global carbon sinks. ( Read More )
JUNE 15, 2023 Research Highlight Improving Drought and Flooding Predictions from Land Surface Models New study identifies crucial factors for more accurate hydrological predictions in the Community Land Model version 5. ( Read More )
JUNE 15, 2023 Research Highlight Exploring How Excess Irrigation Becomes Streamflow in Mountainous Watersheds Groundwater modeling of irrigation return flow dynamics is important for improving estimates of water availability. ( Read More )
JUNE 9, 2023 Research Highlight Energy Transport in Moist Convection: A New Picture for Shallow Cloud Formation The complex interactions between the land and atmosphere can affect cloud growth. ( Read More )
JUNE 9, 2023 Research Highlight Moisture Sources for Great Lakes Region Precipitation: Climatology and Recent Changes The Great Plains and Great Lakes regions are the major sources of moisture for the precipitation that falls in the Great Lakes region. ( Read More )
JUNE 9, 2023 Research Highlight Tracking the Environmental Fate of Radioactive Iodine A team of researchers at PNNL designed and constructed an atmospheric chamber to simulate the fate of volatile and semivolatile radioisotopes. ( Read More )
JUNE 9, 2023 Research Highlight Calibrating a Runoff Generation Scheme at Global Scale A computationally efficient calibration procedure helps constrain simulated runoff in an Earth system model. ( Read More )
JUNE 5, 2023 Research Highlight Interactions Among Shallow Cumulus Clouds Reveal Neighboring Cloud Effects Existing clouds affect the growth of neighboring clouds. ( Read More )
MAY 30, 2023 Staff Accomplishment Garuba Selected for Process Study and Model Improvement Panel Oluwayemi Garuba brings Arctic expertise to panel on climate modeling. ( Read More )
MAY 30, 2023 Staff Accomplishment Daniel Deng Named 2022 PNNL Inventor of the Year Daniel Deng, mechanical engineer and Laboratory Fellow at PNNL, has been named 2022 PNNL Inventor of the Year. ( Read More )
MAY 24, 2023 Staff Accomplishment Qian an Editor at the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres Yun Qian has been selected as an editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, a prominent atmospheric science journal. ( Read More )
MAY 15, 2023 Research Highlight The Meteorological Conditions that Promote Deep Cloud Growth Assessing observed weather conditions that support or suppress the growth of clouds into deep precipitating storms during the Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions experiment. ( Read More )
MAY 15, 2023 Research Highlight Particle Acidity Drives Kinetics and Oligomer Formation in Aqueous Secondary Organic Aerosols Multiple concurrent single-particle measurements help develop a quantitative and predictive understanding of secondary organic aerosols. ( Read More )
MAY 15, 2023 Research Highlight Characterizing Aerosol Effects on Modeled Cloud Lifetimes Using a Novel Framework Applying a novel framework to a climate model reveals new characteristics about how elevated concentrations of aerosols affect clouds. ( Read More )
MAY 15, 2023 Research Highlight Simulating Large-Scale Hydropower under Climate Change: A State-of-the-Art Review A review describes the latest techniques for simulating hydropower at large scales to inform power grid planning and operations. ( Read More )
MAY 15, 2023 Research Highlight Improved Hydropower Generation Estimates for 1,500 Plants across the United States Hydropower generation estimated using water proxy data leads to a revision of the nation’s historical seasonal hydropower output. ( Read More )
MAY 1, 2023 Research Highlight Generating Hourly Electricity Load Profiles for Resilient Grid Planning A new model uses machine learning to project electricity loads across the United States. ( Read More )
MAY 1, 2023 Research Highlight Resolution Matters When Choosing the Meteorological Forcing for Watershed Simulations Watershed hydrological responses are sensitive to the spatial and temporal resolution of the gridded meteorological forcing used in simulations. ( Read More )
MAY 1, 2023 Research Highlight Embedding a Physics Informed Deep Learning Model in a Chemical Transport Model A deep learning model overcomes persistent challenges in emulating long-term simulations of secondary organic aerosols. ( Read More )
MAY 1, 2023 Research Highlight Heightened U.S. Coastal Hurricane Risk Under Global Warming The frequency and intensity of storms affecting U.S. coastal areas will likely increase in a warming world. ( Read More )
