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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global ocean warming tied to anthropogenic forcing | Geophysical Research Letters | Reichert, Bernhard K.; Schnur, Reiner; Bengtsson, Lennart | |
| Increasing risk of great floods in a changing climate | Nature | P. C. D. Milly, R. T. Wetherald, K. A. Dunne & T. L. Delworth | |
| Anthropogenic Warming of Earth's Climate System | Science | Sydney Levitus, John I. Antonov, Julian Wang, Thomas L. Delworth, Keith W. Dixon, Anthony J. Broccoli | |
| Detection of Anthropogenic Climate Change in the World's Oceans | Science | Tim P. Barnett, David W. Pierce, Reiner Schnur | |
| Attribution of twentieth century temperature change to natural and anthropogenic causes | Climate Dynamics | P. A. Stott, S. F. B. Tett, G. S. Jones, M. R. Allen, W. J. Ingram, J. F. B. Mitchell | |
| Are observed decadal changes in intermediate water masses a signature of anthropogenic climate change? | Geophysical Research Letters | Helene T. Banks, Richard A. Wood, Jonathan M. Gregory, Timothy C. Johns, Gareth S. Jones | |
| Causes of twentieth-century temperature change near the Earth's surface | Nature | Simon F. B. Tett, Peter A. Stott, Myles R. Allen, William J. Ingram, John F. B. Mitchell | |
| Detecting climate signals in the surface temperature record | AMS Journal of Climate | Gerald R. North and Mark J. Stevens | |
| Multi-fingerprint detection and attribution analysis of greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas-plus-aerosol and solar forced climate change | Climate Dynamics | G. C. Hegerl, K. Hasselmann, U. Cubasch, J. F. B. Mitchell, E. Roeckner, R. Voss, J. Waszkewitz | |
| Detecting Greenhouse-Gas-Induced Climate Change with an Optimal Fingerprint Method | AMS Journal of Climate | Hegerl, G.C., H.v. Storch, K. Hasselmann, B.D. Santer, U. Cubasch, and P.D. Jones | |
| A search for human influences on the thermal structure of the atmosphere | Nature | B. D. Santer, K. E. Taylor, T. M. L. Wigley, T. C. Johns, P. D. Jones, D. J. Karoly, J. F. B. Mitchell, A. H. Oort, J. E. Penner, V. Ramaswamy, M. D. Schwarzkopf, R. J. Stouffer, S. Tett | |
| Towards the detection and attribution of an anthropogenic effect on climate | Climate Dynamics | Benjamin D. Santer, Karl E. Taylor, Tom M. L. Wigley, Joyce E. Penner, Philip D. Jones, Ulrich Cubasch |
