The COVID-19 pandemic massively disrupted human activities, which caused additional turmoil through regional record rainfall and floods.

PNNL's Tegan Emerson was invited to be one of two plenary speakers at the inaugural AIM 2022 congress. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society organized AIM 2022 to connect materials and manufacturing researchers from around the world.

The climate models best at simulating current precipitation and its drivers show more consensus in projecting future precipitation.

Examining the vast scientific literature about the urban impact on weather and climate enabled researchers to synthesize current understanding and to inform future work.

State-of-the-art numerical models can better simulate the convective clouds that produce most of the Amazon’s wet season rainfall.

Researchers used ground-based and remote-sensed datasets to comprehensively validate a tool for simulating land surface processes.

Chatterjee will lead a multi-laboratory effort on analytic development within CISA’s Risk Architecture Lab Performers Council.

PNNL researchers utilized the Peeters-Devreese-Soldatov formulation to improve the accuracy of calculations for quantum chemistry.

Working on puzzles with her grandpa helped instill Emilie Purvine’s interest in math from an early age. That interest later turned to being co-captain for her high school math team, a degree in mathematics, and eventually a career at PNNL.

A new hexagonal framework helps more accurately model watersheds at a range of scales.

Study reveals importance of accounting for micrometer scale distribution of substrates to predict carbon emissions from soil.

Anika Halappanavar’s research into COVID-19 misinformation earned her recognition by the Washington State Academy of Sciences as one of the state’s top high school researchers.

Four research staff from PNNL are part of an international team that earned top honors for a journal paper focused on a new algorithm-evaluation approach for buildings.

PNNL scientist Brian O’Neill led the compilation of an IPCC chapter about climate-related risks.

Two PNNL staff recognized for work advancing materials synthesis and computational tools by selection to join the National Academy of Engineering.

Developing a model for global soil erosion and sediment flux to advance understanding of land, river, and ocean geomorphology and biogeochemistry.

Researchers are developing an understanding of how either wet or dry soil patches change the sizes of atmospheric eddies and cloud clusters.

PNNL scientists reveal that climate change will increase lake evaporation most dramatically in the Mediterranean, Southeast China, and Tropical America.

The overlooked impact of regional hydroclimate changes on lake evaporation implies more robust regional lake volume changes around the globe.

Changes in the downward flow of infrared energy in clear skies are a key factor influencing recent rapid wintertime Arctic warming.