With future warming, storms in the Western U.S. will be larger and produce more intense precipitation, particularly near the storm center, and increase flood risks.

PNNL welcomes new joint appointments to expand the research productivity and scientific impact of both PNNL and the university partners, broadening the base of expertise at each institution and helping to build interdisciplinary teams.

More realistically representing crops and agricultural practices dramatically improves simulations of carbon and energy exchange.

PNNL’s Katie Arkema was selected to be on NASEM committee focused on public health and conservation.

In new work, PNNL researchers find that 10 gigatons of carbon dioxide may need to be pulled from Earth's atmosphere and oceans annually to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. A diverse suite of carbon dioxide removal methods will be key.

Machine learning models help identify important environmental properties that influence how often extreme rain events occur with critical intensity and duration.

Earth scientist Frederick Day-Lewis has been honored with the 2023 Harold Mooney Award by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

Hailong Wang is a non-federal co-lead for the Arctic Systems Interactions Collaboration Team that will explore the Arctic’s dynamic interconnected systems.

A scenario approach was used to explore the potential future role of hydropower around the globe considering the multisectoral dynamics of regional energy systems and basin-specific water resources.

PNNL Earth scientist Nick Ward has been recognized as a 2022 fellow of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography.

Ben Bond-Lamberty, an Earth scientist, was recently awarded the Outstanding Editor Award 2022 for the scientific journal Biogeosciences.

Yun Qian was elected to a three-year term leading the Committee on the Coastal Environment of the American Meteorological Society’s Scientific and Technological Activities Commission.

A new report, based on a community workshop and literature review, summarizes some of the biggest challenges in understanding and modeling Earth system and human–Earth system dynamics in the Puget Sound region of Washington State.

Improving a snow albedo model to account for non-spherical snow grain shapes and the mixing of dust inside snowflakes in an Earth system model.

Lili Yao named associated editor at the Journal of Hydrology, a leading journal in the field of hydrological sciences.

Building new climate outcome scenarios by stitching together pieces of existing ones.

Researchers found that specific landscape metrics consistently outperform traditional population downscaling methods.

The flux of carbon dioxide from forest soil may acclimate to some aspects of climate change.

Identifying links between large-scale and local-scale model biases in tropical precipitation.

PNNL is making waves in pursuit of a blue economy. Researchers are advancing science and technology to expand—and protect—the gifts of the sea.