PNNL

Closing the Gaps in Modeling Rain in Large Storms

Arctic Snow Reflects Changing Climate

Study shows warmer surface and more rain reduce Arctic snow cover; keep temperatures climbing.

Creating better models to predict subsurface water flow and transport

STAR Workshop: Terrestrial-Aquatic Research in Coastal Systems

Providing an Education in Atmospheric Particles

PNNL helped teach the next generation of principal investigators about aerosols—tiny atmospheric particles that can affect the Earth’s climate—during the 2019 Aerosol Summer School.

Modeling the Future of a Sea

The inner Salish Sea’s future response to climate change, while significant, is predicted to be less severe than that of the open ocean based on parameters like algal blooms, ocean acidification, and annual occurrences of hypoxia.

A Field Campaign for Improving Understanding of Climate-Critical Cloud Processes

The mountains of central Argentina provide an ideal cloud-generating hotspot for field studies of environmental controls on the evolution of clouds.

Impacts of Limiting Unsustainable Water Use in the United States

Researchers found that increasing restrictions on nonrenewable groundwater use for irrigation shifts agricultural production from western states to the east.

The Effect of Tide–Surge–River Interactions on Delaware Bay Estuary Coastal Flooding

Numerical modeling shows the effects of nonlinear tide–surge–river interactions on three coastal flooding zones within the Delaware Bay Estuary.

Higher Sensitivity of Global Agricultural Markets to Interannual Climate Variability

Model results show that uncertainties in farmers’ expectations of market and weather conditions amplify agricultural supply and demand variability under a changing climate.