December 2023
The forecast calls for stats
An NREL researcher makes new tools for extreme-weather predictions.
Category Archives: Climate
October 2023
Up in smoke
National Center for Atmospheric Research scientists’ simulations reveal that wildfires influence La Niñas and pack other climate punches.
April 2023
The storms ahead
A UC Davis scientist deploys exascale supercomputers to refine predictions of dangerous weather.
February 2023
High and dry
A new supercomputer drought model projects dry times ahead for much of the nation, especially the Midwest.
September 2022
Crops for a changing planet
An Oak Ridge team links plant performance and genetics, seeking a food-biofuel balance in a changing climate.
March 2022
Pi in the sky
A Pi Day celebration of the pi-dependent algorithm and the computational science pioneer who transformed climate modeling.
September 2021
Tracking the big melt
Los Alamos and Oak Ridge scientists lead a DOE supercomputing effort to model the complex interactions affecting climate change in Arctic coastal regions.
November 2020
Climate on a new scale
DOE’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model will harness the next level of supercomputer to explore big climate questions.
April 2020
Soil sifters
Algorithms and supercomputers help tease out how soil microbes affect global climate.
February 2015
Weather extremists
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory modelers turn to extreme-scale computing to simulate climate and weather extremes like the ‘Pineapple Express’ that drenched the West Coast this winter.