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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Attribution of climate effects on Hurricane Harvey's extreme rainfall in Texas | Submitted: Environmental Research Letters | S.-Y. Simon Wang, Lin Zhao, Jin-Ho Yoon, Phil Klotzbach, and Robert R. Gillies | |
The human influence on Hurricane Florence | Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences | Kevin Reed, Alyssa Stansfield, Michael Wehner, and Colin Zarzycki | |
Marine heatwaves exacerbate climate change impacts for fisheries in the northeast Pacific | Scientific Reports | William W. L. Cheung & Thomas L. Frölicher | |
The Roles of Climate Change and Climate Variability in the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season | Scientific Reports | Young-Kwon Lim, Siegfried D. Schubert, Robin Kovach, Andrea M. Molod, Steven Pawson | |
Widespread persistent changes to temperature extremes occurred earlier than predicted | Scientific Reports | Chao Li, Yuanyuan Fang, Ken Caldeira, Xuebin Zhang, Noah S. Diffenbaugh and Anna M. Michalak | |
Recent increase in catastrophic tropical cyclone flooding in coastal North Carolina, USA: Long-term observations suggest a regime shift | Scientific Reports | Hans W. Paerl, Nathan S. Hall, Alexandria G. Hounshell, Richard A. Luettich, Karen L. Rossignol, Christopher L. Osburn, Jerad Bales | |
One hundred years of Arctic surface temperature variation due to anthropogenic influence | Scientific Reports | John C. Fyfe, Knut von Salzen, Nathan P. Gillett, Vivek K. Arora, Gregory M. Flato, Joseph R. McConnell | |
Influence of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Planetary Wave Resonance and Extreme Weather Events | Scientific Reports | Michael E. Mann, Stefan Rahmstorf, Kai Kornhuber, Byron A. Steinman, Sonya K. Miller, Dim Coumou | |
Multi-model attribution of upper-ocean temperature changes using an isothermal approach | Scientific Reports | Evan Weller, Seung-Ki Min, Matthew D. Palmer, Donghyun Lee, Bo Young Yim, Sang-Wook Yeh | |
Human-caused Indo-Pacific warm pool expansion | Science Advances | Evan Weller, Seung-Ki Min, Wenju Cai, Francis W. Zwiers, Yeon-Hee Kim, Donghyun Lee | |
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 | |
Human-caused Indo-Pacific warm pool expansion | Science Advances | Evan Weller, Seung-Ki Min, Wenju Cai, Francis W. Zwiers, Yeon-Hee Kim, Donghyun Lee | |
Climate change is increasing the risk of a California megaflood | Science Advances | Xingying Huang and Daniel L. Swain | |
A stratospheric pathway linking a colder Siberia to Barents-Kara Sea sea ice loss | Science Advances | Pengfei Zhang, Yutian Wu, Isla R. Simpson, Karen L. Smith, Xiangdong Zhang, Bithi De, Patrick Callaghan | |
Forecasted attribution of the human influence on Hurricane Florence | Science Advances | K. A. Reed, A. M. Stansfield, M. F. Wehner, C. M. Zarzycki | |
Unprecedented climate events: Historical changes, aspirational targets, and national commitments | Science Advances | Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Deepti Singh, and Justin S. Mankin | |
Human-induced arctic moistening | Science | Seung-Ki Min, Xuebin Zhang, Francis Zwiers | |
Detection of a Human Influence on North American Climate | Science | David J. Karoly, Karl Braganza, Peter A. Stott, Julie M. Arblaster, Gerald A. Meehl, Anthony J. Broccoli, Keith W. Dixon | |
Observed Arctic sea-ice loss directly follows anthropogenic CO2 emission | Science | Dirk Notz, Julienne Stroeve | |
Contributions of Anthropogenic and Natural Forcing to Recent Tropopause Height Changes | Science | B. D. Santer, M. F. Wehner, T. M. L. Wigley, R. Sausen, G. A. Meehl, K. E. Taylor, C. Ammann, J. Arblaster, W. M. Washington, J. S. Boyle, W. Brüggemann |