PNNL’s extensive portfolio of buildings-grid research included three projects that helped answer some of the technical questions related to leveraging energy consumption in buildings to enhance grid operations.

Using a combination of satellite data and modeling to study the temperatures and humidity people might feel in urban areas, researchers have pinpointed who in the U.S. is most vulnerable to heat stress.

Quantifying the long-term destination of anthropogenic emissions and robustness of global carbon sinks.

New study identifies crucial factors for more accurate hydrological predictions in the Community Land Model version 5.

Groundwater modeling of irrigation return flow dynamics is important for improving estimates of water availability.

Katalenich was selected to attend the Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2023 Symposium—an honor given to only 100 early-career engineers annually.

The Great Plains and Great Lakes regions are the major sources of moisture for the precipitation that falls in the Great Lakes region.

A team of researchers at PNNL designed and constructed an atmospheric chamber to simulate the fate of volatile and semivolatile radioisotopes.

A computationally efficient calibration procedure helps constrain simulated runoff in an Earth system model.

The complex interactions between the land and atmosphere can affect cloud growth.

Existing clouds affect the growth of neighboring clouds.

Microparticles help the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Network of Analytical Laboratories with quality of analyses.

Oluwayemi Garuba brings Arctic expertise to panel on climate modeling.

By mimicking nature, scientists make a breakthrough in breaking down wood.

Yun Qian has been selected as an editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, a prominent atmospheric science journal.

PNNL researchers explore the feasibility of using low-flying drones to survey sites for low levels of radiation.

Sarah Frazar was recently elected chair of the Board of Trustees for the World Affairs Council of Seattle.

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.

Multiple concurrent single-particle measurements help develop a quantitative and predictive understanding of secondary organic aerosols.

Applying a novel framework to a climate model reveals new characteristics about how elevated concentrations of aerosols affect clouds.