A recent edition of the Infrastructure Resilience Research Group Journal featured an article written by PNNL researchers Rob Siefken and Jake Burns about “Design Basis Threat and the Low Threat Environment.”

Researchers at PNNL revisit a disaster recovery framework for relevance to COVID-19 pandemic.

Through two U.S. Department of Energy funding calls awarded in 2020, PNNL is partnering with industry and academia to advance battery materials and processes.

Long term power grid planning needs to consider regional dependencies in climate adaption plans.

Despite the challenges, the talented and dedicated staff at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory kept delivering for the nation.

Integrating information on irrigation processes into Earth system models allows for more accurate representation of the global water cycle.

David Manz is a cybersecurity researcher who is working with cyber-physical systems to better protect the critical infrastructure.

The effects of too much CO2 can cause clouds covering the oceans to dissipate and be unable to reform.

Hector, a reduced complexity climate model, can be calibrated to emulate 30 different complex, computationally expensive Earth System Models.

PNNL researchers say that offshore wind energy can add value to the electric grid, beyond just the power it can produce, if locations and strategies are optimized.

New experiments show organic aerosol can be lost from the atmosphere faster than most models predict.

PNNL’s longstanding grid and buildings capabilities are driving two projects that test transactive energy concepts on a grand scale and lay the groundwork for a more efficient U.S. energy system.

Historical weather data informs projections of global yields of economically important crops.

To accurately model future U.S. agricultural production, changes in international crop yields cannot be ignored.

Researchers introduced a simulated carbon cycle to the Energy Exascale Earth System Model, broadening its utility and enabling new research directions.

Ecosystem feedback fire model opens new investigative pathways into impacts of fire on future climate.

Hybrid land use model incorporates key factors to understanding agriculture’s potential response to climate change.

Differences in the rainfall intensity of mesoscale convective systems and other types of warm—season rainfall in the central United States lead to differences in their impacts over land.

Atmospheric rivers that make landfall on the U.S. West Coast show broad increases in size and intensity with warmer local sea surfaces.

Floodplain inundation simulations shed light on flood generation mechanisms and the increasing role of extreme rainfall.