RICHLAND, Wash. October 17, 2022—In a new study, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory find that the U.S. Atlantic Coast is becoming a breeding ground for rapidly intensifying hurricanes. Fueled by environmental conditions that beget increasingly severe storms—with climate change as a root contributor—the new research finds that hurricanes are growing wetter and […]
Brendan Bane, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories
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Error Correction Means California’s Future Wetter Winters May Never Come
RICHLAND, Wash. December 15, 2020 – California and other areas of the U.S. Southwest may see less future winter precipitation than previously projected by climate models. After probing a persistent error in widely used models, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory estimate that California will likely experience drier winters in the future than […]