A success story of applying convergence testing to detect and address issues of numerical discretization in nonlinear representations of turbulence and clouds.

Researchers found a 150-day period in Antarctic circulation, something that many current climate models do not represent accurately.

Four PNNL researchers received highly competitive DOE Early Career Research Program awards, providing five continuous years of funding for their projects.

A new open-source feature tracking package is now available to facilitate advanced model evaluation, model development efforts, and scientific discovery.

Models show that in a warmer climate, the 2012 North American derecho would shrink and decay earlier in Mid-Atlantic coastal areas.

By adding rain, snow, and rain-on-snow precipitation data to a background model, a new scheme pinpoints local flood risks in order to improve the design of small-scale hydrological infrastructure.

Developed a data-assimilation method based on physics-informed deep learning to resolve downscaled flow fields within a large-scale river model.

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.

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

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

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

Existing clouds affect the growth of neighboring clouds.

Oluwayemi Garuba brings Arctic expertise to panel on climate modeling.

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

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

Watershed hydrological responses are sensitive to the spatial and temporal resolution of the gridded meteorological forcing used in simulations.

The frequency and intensity of storms affecting U.S. coastal areas will likely increase in a warming world.