Science Sources: Detection and Attribution
Climate Signals tracks detection and attribution studies in real time. Below is an updating database of studies that find the fingerprint of human-caused climate change on observed trends and events. The database is limited to studies of local significance in the United States and studies of global significance. For a broader database of peer-reviewed studies and organizational reports on climate change trends, please see all Science Sources.
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| Title | Source | Date | Author(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021 | Nature Climate Change | A. Park Williams, Benjamin I. Cook & Jason E. Smerdon | |
| Severe Lake Heatwaves Attributable to Human-Induced Global Warming | Geophysical Research Letters | R. Iestyn Woolway, Clément Albergel, Thomas L. Frölicher, and Marjorie Perroud | |
| A Multidataset Assessment of Climatic Drivers and Uncertainties of Recent Trends in Evaporative Demand across the Continental United States | Journal of Hydrometeorology | Christine M. Albano, John T. Abatzoglou, Daniel J. McEvoy, Justin L. Huntington, Charles G. Morton, Michael D. Dettinger, and Thomas J. Ott | |
| Extreme Atlantic hurricane seasons made twice as likely by ocean warming | Journal of Weather and Climate Dynamics | Peter Pfleiderer , Shruti Nath, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner | |
| The 2021 western North America heat wave among the most extreme events ever recorded globally | Science Advances | Vikki Thompson, Alan T. Kennedy-Asser, Emily Vosper, Y. T. Eunice Lo, Chris Huntingford, Oliver Andrews, Matthew Collins, Gabrielle C. Hegerland, and Dann Mitchell | |
| The heatwave in North India and Pakistan in April-May 2022 | UK Met Office | Nikolaos Christidis | |
| The role of human-induced climate change in heavy rainfall events such as the one associated with Typhoon Hagibis | Climatic Change | Sihan Li & Friederike E. L. Otto | |
| Climate change made UK heatwave at least 10 times more likely | World Weather Attribution | M. Zachariah, R. Vautard, D. Schumacher, M. Vahlberg , D. Heinrich, E. Raju, L. Thalheimer, J. Arrighi, R. Singh, S. Li, J. Sun, G. Vecchi, et al | |
| Climate change is increasing the risk of a California megaflood | Science Advances | Xingying Huang and Daniel L. Swain | |
| Social inequalities in climate change-attributed impacts of Hurricane Harvey | Nature Communications | Kevin T. Smiley, Ilan Noy, Michael F. Wehner, Dave Frame, Christopher C. Sampson & Oliver E. J. Wing | |
| Changing intensity of hydroclimatic extreme events revealed by GRACE and GRACE-FO | Nature Water | ||
| Satellites reveal hotspots of global river extent change | Nature Communications |
