PNNL Plays Important Role in Development of Powerful Earth System Model
Over 100 scientists and engineers from multiple DOE national laboratories and universities, including PNNL, contribute to the creation of a new Earth modeling system—the Energy Exascale Earth System Model.
Sensitivity of Western U.S. Power System Dynamics to Droughts Compounded with Fuel Price Variability
Understanding the Evolution of U.S. Energy, Water, and Agriculture Interconnections
Developing a new approach for defining energy-water-agriculture linkages highlights U.S. regions where focusing on individual sectors may miss cross-sectoral impacts.
Assessing the Future of Global Energy-for-Water
Quantifying the future energy requirements of agricultural, industrial, and municipal water sector use.
Multiscale Effects Masked the Impact of COVID-19 on Electricity Consumption
COVID-19 had multiple impacts on the electric sector and the nature of those impacts varied on the scale analyzed.
Tethys Tackles Downscaling Challenge for Regional Water Withdrawals
Open-source tool helps connect high-resolution sectoral models and broader integrated human-Earth system models.
Analysis of Urban Teleconnections Reveals Wide Disparities in Potential Drinking Water Contamination
A multisectoral analysis that combines land use data with hydrological simulations reveals wide disparities in potential source water contamination.
Evaluating the Economic Impact of Water Scarcity in a Changing World
Calculating the multi-region and multisector effects of water scarcity for thousands of possible future socioeconomic, climate, and hydrologic scenarios.
Human–Earth Interactions Researchers Set Vision for 2030
To improve the study of human-Earth interactions, a 10-year vision report by the MultiSector Dynamics community of practice encourages the use of emerging human systems datasets, embedded intelligence in modeling, and workforce diversity.