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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Increase of extreme events in a warming world | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou | |
Increased threat of tropical cyclones and coastal flooding to New York City during the anthropogenic era | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Andra J. Reed, Michael E. Mann, Kerry A. Emanuel, Ning Lin, Benjamin P. Horton, Andrew C. Kemp, and Jeffrey P. Donnelly | |
Quantifying contributions of natural variability and anthropogenic forcings on increased fire weather risk over the western United States | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Yizhou Zhuang, Rong Fu, Benjamin D. Santer, Robert E. Dickinson, and Alex Hall | |
Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | John T. Abatzoglou and A. Park Williams | |
Human and natural influences on the changing thermal structure of the atmosphere | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Benjamin D. Santer, Jeffrey F. Painter, Céline Bonfils, Carl A. Mears, Susan Solomon, Tom M. L. Wigley, Peter J. Gleckler, Gavin A. Schmidt, Charles Doutriaux, Nathan P. Gillett, Karl E. Taylor, Peter W. Thorne, Frank J. Wentz | |
Incorporating model quality information in climate change detection and attribution studies | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | B. D. Santer, K. E. Taylor, P. J. Gleckler, C. Bonfils, T. P. Barnett, D. W. Pierce, T. M. L. Wigley, C. Mears, F. J. Wentz, W. Brüggemann, N. P. Gillett, S. A. Klein, S. Solomon, P. A. Stott, M. F. Wehner | |
Climate change and California drought in the 21st century | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Michael E. Mann, Peter H. Gleick | |
Normalized US hurricane damage estimates using area of total destruction, 1900−2018 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Aslak Grinsted, Peter Ditlevsen, Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen | |
Anthropogenic warming has increased drought risk in California | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Daniel L. Swain, and Danielle Toum | |
Temperature-driven global sea-level variability in the Common Era | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Robert E. Kopp, Andrew C. Kemp, Klaus Bittermann, Benjamin P. Horton, Jeffrey P. Donnelly, W. Roland Gehrels, Carling C. Hay, Jerry X. Mitrovica, Eric D. Morrow, Stefan Rahmstorf | |
Quantifying the influence of global warming on unprecedented extreme climate events | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Deepti Singh, Justin S. Mankin, Daniel E. Horton, Daniel L. Swain, Danielle Touma, Allison Charland, Yunjie Liu, Matz Haugen, Michael Tsiang, Bala Rajaratnam | |
Incorporating Anthropogenic Influences into Fire Probability Models: Effects of Human Activity and Climate Change on Fire Activity in California | Plos One | Michael L. Mann, Enric Batllori, Max A. Moritz, Eric K. Waller, Peter Berck, Alan L. Flint, Lorraine E. Flint, Emmalee Dolfi | |
Changing intensity of hydroclimatic extreme events revealed by GRACE and GRACE-FO | Nature Water | ||
Anthropogenic and natural warming inferred from changes in Earth’s energy balance | Nature Geoscience | Markus Huber and Reto Knutti | |
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 | |
Increasing trends in regional heatwaves | Nature Communications | S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, S. C. Lewis | |
Detecting anthropogenic footprints in sea level rise | Nature Communications | Sönke Dangendorf, Marta Marcos, Alfred Müller, Eduardo Zorita, Riccardo Riva, Kevin Berk, Jürgen Jensen | |
Satellites reveal hotspots of global river extent change | Nature Communications | ||
Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale | Nature Climate Change | Sebastian Sippel, Nicolai Meinshausen, Erich M. Fischer, Enikő Székely, Reto Knutti | |
Increasing precipitation volatility in twenty-first-century California | Nature Climate Change | Daniel L. Swain, Baird Langenbrunner, J. David Neelin, Alex Hall |