Developing an R package for modeling land use and land cover change.

Hybrid land use model incorporates key factors to understanding agriculture’s potential response to climate change.

Regional climate models reveal irrigation’s role in an intensified hydrologic cycle.

Biased vertical transport by storms may negatively impact regional weather and climate prediction.

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are closer to understanding how iron may pave the way for sequestration of technetium-99 contaminants in the subsurface.

PNNL data scientists Ján Drgoňa and Draguna Vrabie are working to reduce deployment costs of advanced energy control systems for buildings.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Global Security Technology and Policy group manager, Sarah Frazar, was named to the Board of Trustees for the World Affairs Council of Seattle.

Differences in the rainfall intensity of mesoscale convective systems and other types of warm—season rainfall in the central United States lead to differences in their impacts over land.

Researchers developed a new tool that combines artificial intelligence and microscopy data to rapidly test new materials for fusion reactor use.

PNNL and Microsoft Quantum partner to link quantum circuits to powerful government supercomputers.

An index that better captures El Niño-Southern Oscillation effects shows that Pacific tropical cyclones are more predictable than previously thought.

Study addresses shortcomings in global multiscale model storm simulations.

Atmospheric rivers that make landfall on the U.S. West Coast show broad increases in size and intensity with warmer local sea surfaces.

A new method separates climate responses initiated from atmospheric changes from those due to changing ocean circulation.

Experiments show fresh organic aerosol readily mix and mingle but remain separated as they age; results inform model assumptions about particle growth.

Floodplain inundation simulations shed light on flood generation mechanisms and the increasing role of extreme rainfall.

PNNL bioenergy expert Dan Gaspar has been selected to assume leadership of DOE’s Co-Optimization of Fuels and Engines initiative.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers developed a graphical processing unit (GPU)-centered quantum computer simulator that can be 10 times faster than any other quantum computer simulator.

Materials scientists at PNNL are demonstrating materials with improved properties using solid phase processing.

In a new video series, PNNL is highlighting six scientific and technical experts in the national security domain throughout the fall. Each was promoted to scientist and engineer Level 5, one of PNNL’s most senior research roles.