A research project that brings together mathematicians and atmospheric scientists has developed into a deep collaboration for improving atmospheric models.
Researchers found that warmer local sea surfaces increase the winter snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains, but reduce snowpack in the Cascade range.
Risk analysis on the plutonium-fueled power system that supplies electricity to the Mars rover answered the “what if” nuclear safety questions for NASA.
Marcel Baer is a computational scientist working in PNNL’s Physical Sciences Division with a prominent effort in materials science and physical bioscience.
Researchers developed a strategy for quantifying the numerical errors in global simulations of atmospheric clouds and attributing them to components in the computational model.
A new decomposition method allows scientists to unravel the atmosphere-ice-ocean interactions that drive Arctic sea ice changes under increasing carbon dioxide levels.
The persistent double-ITCZ bias in Earth system models influences projections of future precipitation in regions that are already under severe water stress.
High school students from across Washington State competed in the Pacific Northwest Regional Science Bowl, hosted online by PNNL, for a chance to advance to the national competition in May.
Johnson is among the PNNL scientists preparing to move into the Energy Sciences Center, the new $90 million, 140,000-square-foot facility that is expected to open in late 2021.