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

Existing clouds affect the growth of neighboring clouds.

Oluwayemi Garuba brings Arctic expertise to panel on climate modeling.

The popular approach of organizing soil bacteria into fast- or slow-growing groups is problematic because most bacteria grow at comparable rates in soil.

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

Metabolomics analysis revealed differences in metabolome profiles for two distinct modes of fungal wood decay.

Research from PNNL and the University of Washington demonstrates the extension of the MBE for periodic systems and its use to decompose the lattice energies of different ice polymorphs.

The ChemSpace Tool, when fully developed, is intended to divide chemical space into three subsets: the detectable space, the identifiable space, and the region that includes compounds that are not detectable or identifiable.

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

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

Researchers investigated the impact of using constant versus spatially varying crop parameters on carbon and energy fluxes in a realistic crop rotation scenario.

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

SAGE is a high-efficiency genome integration strategy for bacteria that makes the stable introduction of new traits simple for newly discovered microbes.

Research.com ranked PNNL joint appointee George Karniadakis as one of the top mathematicians in the world.

Future global warming-induced changes to watershed and coastal processes can significantly affect the magnitude of fluvial-coastal compound flooding.

Information encoded in streamflow reveals how the water-storage capacity of thawed ground changes as permafrost thaws.

A new model improves the representations of river networks in climate models across scales.

PNNL chemist Christopher Anderton recently named president-elect of the Imaging Mass Spectrometry Society (IMSS). In this new position, he will help lead the merge of IMSS with a European-based society, currently underway.

Variations in burn severity are a key control on the chemical constituents of dissolved organic matter delivered to streams within a single burn perimeter.

Mesoscale convective systems that are clustered in time and space have broader impacts on flooding than individual systems.