Earth scientist Susannah Burrows selected as one of seven new members of the Atmospheric Research Measurement facility user executive committee

A new type of ice chamber allows researchers to understand how ice forms on atmospheric aerosol particles.

Explainable AI helps scientists understand and untangle the threads of information that the system uses to make choices or recommendations.

PNNL streamlines environmental review process for advanced reactors, saving years and millions of dollars toward deployments of new nuclear power projects.

Earth scientist Jiwen Fan appointed to a four-year term as an editor of the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems handling atmosphere papers.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, PNNL is offering support to its neighbors in the Mid-Columbia region and across Washington State.

Variability in field measurement conditions likely does not impact estimates of an important flux in the global carbon cycle.

Current representations of shallow clouds in climate models have biases that lead to inaccuracies in models.

In a December press release, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced the safe and secure removal of 50 sample containers of plutonium-239 and americium-241.

In 2020, virtual Washington State University teams successfully worked together in a program sponsored by the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Office of International Nuclear Safeguards.

Bin Zhao was appointed as an associate editor to both Geophysical Research Letters and Frontiers in Environmental Science.

A new process-oriented diagnostic approach provides new insights into simulated storms and their environments.

Demonstrating methods for using a portable optical particle spectrometer, a miniaturized and highly sensitive instrument, to measure atmospheric aerosol size distributions.

PNNL seismologist Hunter Knox has been named general chairperson of the Geothermal Rising Conference.

Satellite observations provide insight into the processes that control the spatial distributions of dust in global climate models.

Ruby Leung was awarded the Jacob Bjerknes Lectureship to honor her contributions to “advancing the basic understanding of the atmosphere and Earth’s climate.”

Ultra-trace radiation detection technique sets new global standard for measuring the nearly immeasurable.

Scientists discovered that a warming climate delays monsoonal rain, but only over land.

Introducing a publicly available and global gridded high-resolution land use dataset based on diverse future socioeconomic and climate scenarios.

Methane emissions from coal mines are likely higher than previously calculated, largely due to emissions from abandoned mines.