How hailstorms respond to human-created warming in the Great Plains depends on large-scale weather-producing systems.

The presence of mMarine microorganisms may enhance cloud droplet formation, leading to brighter clouds that reflect more sunlight.

Better representing electric capacity markets, economic retirements, and power-plant age structure provides a more robust understanding of the future evolution of the electric sector.

Newly developed deep learning models can estimate 3-D permeability fields from time-lapse geophysical electrical imaging.

Repeated aircraft measurements over central Oklahoma allow researchers to better understand the spatial variability of aerosol properties that affect cloud evolution.

Observational evidence shows that clouds strongly influence the seasonal heat exchange between Southern Ocean air and sea.

Developing a new method to identify the fraction of green vegetation from satellite data at high spatial resolution.

Both the type and composition of landforms affect atmospheric properties and clouds in a state-of-the-art Earth system model.

A new testbed facility capable of testing superconducting qubit fidelity in a controlled environment free of stray background radiation will benefit quantum information sciences and the development of quantum computing.

Jiwen Fan honored for improving fundamental atmospheric science and modeling capabilities by being named a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.

A new, simple, and efficient flow-based method allows researchers to pull a useful magnesium salt from natural seawater using easily available chemicals.

Microbes and viruses play key roles in carbon and nitrogen cycling in riverbed sediments.

Diefenderfer, Earth scientist who focuses on coastal ecosystems at PNNL, recently published “Ten Years of Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Projects Since the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill,” a cover article.

Proteins from “auxiliary” genes in soil viruses play a role in the carbon cycle and climate, scientists have found.

Qiu Yang begins a one-year term as an associate editor of the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

New research shows that compressing quantum circuits decreases noise and increases the accuracy of quantum calculations.

Anthropogenically forced evolution of the leading neutral mode explains historical trends in global surface temperature, lending confidence to regional projections related to modes.

Tim C. Johnson was awarded the Frank Frischknecht Leadership Award this spring at the 34th Symposium on the Application of Geophysics of Engineering and Environmental Problems held in Denver, Colorado. 

Aerosols from sea-spray that are transported by atmospheric rivers enhance snow precipitation in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Dalei Hao joined the editorial board of the journal Earth System Science Data, covering land and ice.