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DOE SCIENCE NEWS BY TOPIC: Environmental Sciences
DOE research seeks to understand basic chemical, physical, and biological processes of the earth’s atmosphere, land, and oceans and how these processes may be affected by energy production and use, primarily the emission of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion. Understanding global climate change and the ability to predict climate over decades or centuries will enable the development of science-based solutions to reduce and minimize the impacts of climate change and better plan for the nation’s future energy needs.

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Fresh water feeds hurricanes' fury

Fresh water feeds hurricanes' fury

PNNL researchers discovered that hurricanes and tropical cyclones become up to 50 percent more intense when passing over oceans inundated with fresh water. Their findings might help improve predictions of a hurricane's power in certain regions.

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Special report: Graphics processing units speed results in extreme-scale supercomputers

Can scientists and engineers benefit from extreme-scale supercomputers that use application-code accelerators called GPUs (graphics processing units)? Comparing GPU accelerators with today's fastest central processing units (CPUs), early results from diverse areas of research show 1.5- to 3-fold speedups for most codes. That acceleration means increased realism of simulations and decreased time to results. A special report details these findings.

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Special report: Graphics processing units speed results in extreme-scale supercomputers

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Lab News Releases
29-Nov-2012 - Lawrence Livermore's Keane and Long elected AAAS Fellows
DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

29-Nov-2012 - A human-caused climate change signal emerges from the noise
DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

28-Nov-2012 - NREL updates solar radiation database
DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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