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) |
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Detecting climate signals in the surface temperature record | AMS Journal of Climate | Gerald R. North and Mark J. Stevens | |
Is There a Role for Human-Induced Climate Change in the Precipitation Decline that Drove the California Drought? | AMS Journal of Climate | Richard Seager, Naomi Henderson, Mark A. Cane, Haibo Liu, and Jennifer Nakamura | |
Multimodel Multisignal Climate Change Detection at Regional Scale | AMS Journal of Climate | Xuebin Zhang | |
Causes of the 2011–14 California Drought | AMS Journal of Climate | Richard Seager, Martin Hoerling, Siegfried Schubert, Hailan Wang, Bradfield Lyon, Arun Kumar, Jennifer Nakamura, and Naomi Henderson | |
Detection and Attribution of Observed Changes in Northern Hemisphere Spring Snow Cover | AMS Journal of Climate | David E. Rupp and Philip W. Mote | |
Human Contribution to the Lengthening of the Growing Season during 1950–99 | AMS Journal of Climate | Nikolaos Christidis, Peter A. Stott, and Simon Brown | |
Model Assessment of Observed Precipitation Trends Over Land Regions: Detectable Human Influences and Possible Low Bias in Model Trends | AMS Journal of Climate | Thomas R. Knutson and Fanrong Zeng | |
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 | |
Anthropogenic Warming of the Oceans: Observations and Model Results | AMS Journal of Climate | David W. Pierce and Tim P. Barnett | |
Detectable Changes in the Frequency of Temperature Extremes | AMS Journal of Climate | Simone Morak, Gabriele C. Hegerl, and Nikolaos Christidis | |
Change in the Odds of Warm Years and Seasons Due to Anthropogenic Influence on the Climate | AMS Journal of Climate | Nikolaos Christidis and Peter A. Stott | |
Deducing Multidecadal Anthropogenic Global Warming Trends Using Multiple Regression Analysis | AMS Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences | Jiansong Zhou and Ka-Kit Tung | |
Single‐step attribution of increasing frequencies of very warm regional temperatures to human influence | Atmospheric Science Letters | Peter A. Stott, Gareth S. Jones, Nikolaos Christidis, Francis W. Zwiers, Gabriele Hegerl, Hideo Shiogama | |
Using present-day observations to detect when anthropogenic change forces surface ocean carbonate chemistry outside preindustrial bounds | Biogeosciences | Sutton, Adrienne J., Sabine, Christopher L., Feely, Richard A., Cai, Wei-Jun, Cronin, Meghan F., McPhaden, Michael J., Morell, Julio M., Newton, Jan A., Noh, Jae-Hoon, Ólafsdóttir, Sólveig R., Salisbury, Joseph E., Send, Uwe et al | |
Detecting an external influence on recent changes in oceanic oxygen using an optimal fingerprinting method | Biogeosciences | Andrews, O. D., Bindoff, N. L., Halloran, P. R., Ilyina, T., Quéré, C. Le | |
EEE 2016: The Extreme 2015/16 El Niño, in the Context of Historical Climate Variability and Change | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Matthew Newman, Andrew T. Wittenberg, Linyin Cheng, Gilbert P. Compo, and Catherine A. Smith | |
EEE 2016: Forcing of Multiyear Extreme Ocean Temperatures that Impacted California Current Living Marine Resources in 2016 | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Michael G. Jacox, Michael A. Alexander, Nathan J. Mantua, James D. Scott, Gaelle Hervieux, Robert S. Webb, and Francisco E. Werner | |
EEE 2016: CMIP5 Model-based Assessment of Anthropogenic Influence on Highly Anomalous Arctic Warmth During November–December 2016 | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Jonghun Kam, Thomas R. Knutson, Fanrong Zeng, and Andrew T. Wittenberg | |
EEE 2013: The extraordinary California drought of 2013/2014: character, context, and the role of climate change | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Daniel L. Swain, Michael Tsiang, Matz Haugen, Deepti Singh, Allison Charland, Bala Rajaratnam, and Noah S. Diffenbaug | |
EEE 2016: The High Latitude Marine Heat Wave of 2016 and Its Impacts on Alaska | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | John E. Walsh, Richard L. Thoman, Uma S. Bhatt, Peter A. Bieniek, Brian Brettschneider, Michael Brubaker, Seth Danielson, Rick Lader, Florence Fetterer, Kris Holderied, Katrin Iken, Andy Mahoney, Molly McCammon, and James Partain |