Science Sources

Search the database below for peer-reviewed studies and organizational reports documenting climate change trends. (Note: The database does not include studies on projected, or future change.) For studies that specifically identify the fingerprint of climate change on observed trends and events, visit Science Sources: Detection and Attribution.

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Title Source Date Author(s)
Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Assessment: Part I Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Thomas Knutson, Suzana J. Camargo, Johnny C. L. Chan, Kerry Emanuel, Chang-Hoi Ho, James Kossin, Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Masaki Satoh, Masato Sugi, Kevin Walsh, and Liguang Wu
NCA 4: Climate Change Impacts in the United States (Volume I) U.S. Global Change Research Program Donald Wuebbles, David Fahey, and Kathleen Hibbard
IPCC AR5 WGI: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis Cambridge University Press Stocker, T.F., D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, M. Tignor, S.K. Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex and P.M. Midgley (eds.)
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
Attribution of climate extreme events Nature Climate Change Kevin E. Trenberth, John T. Fasullo & Theodore G. Shepherd
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U.S. temperature and drought: Recent anomalies and trends Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union T. R. Karl, B. E. Gleason, M. J. Menne, J. R. McMahon, R. R. Heim, M. J. Brewer, K. E. Kunkel, D. S. Arndt, J. L. Privette, J. J. Bates, P. Y. Groisman, D. R. Easterling
U.S. Heat, February 2017 World Weather Attribution Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Andrew King, Friederike Otto, Gabriel Vecchi, Claudia Tebaldi, and Heidi Cullen
U-Th dating reveals regional-scale decline of branching Acropora corals on the Great Barrier Reef over the past century Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Tara R. Clark, George Roff, Jian-xin Zhao, Yue-xing Feng, Terence J. Done, Laurence J. McCook, John M. Pandolfi
Two distinct influences of Arctic warming on cold winters over North America and East Asia Nature Geoscience Jong-Seong Kug, Jee-Hoon Jeong, Yeon-Soo Jang, Baek-Min Kim, Chris K. Folland, Seung-Ki Min, Seok-Woo Son
Twenty-Seven Ways a Heat Wave Can Kill You: Deadly Heat in the Era of Climate Change Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes Camilo Mora, Chelsie W.W. Counsell, Coral R. Bielecki, Leo V Louis
Twenty-First-Century Snowfall and Snowpack Changes over the Southern California Mountains American Meteorological Society Fengpeng Sun, Alex Hall, Marla Schwartz, Daniel B.Walton, and Neil Berg
Twenty-first century Arctic climate change American Meteorological Society Stephen J. Vavrus, Marika M. Holland, Alexandra Jahn, David A. Bailey, and Benjamin A. Blazey
Twentieth-century hydroclimate changes consistent with human influence Nature Kate Marvel, Benjamin I. Cook, Céline J. W. Bonfils, Paul J. Durack, Jason E. Smerdon, A. Park Williams
Turbidity and fecal indicator bacteria in recreational marine waters increase following the 2018 Woolsey Fire Scientific Reports Marisol Cira, Anisha Bafna, Christine M. Lee, Yuwei Kong, Benjamin Holt, Luke Ginger, Kerry Cawse-Nicholson, Lucy Rieves & Jennifer A. Jay
Tropospheric Warming Over The Past Two Decades Scientific Reports Benjamin D. Santer, Susan Solomon, Frank J. Wentz, Qiang Fu, Stephen Po-Chedley, Carl Mears, Jeffrey F. Painter, Céline Bonfils
Tropical forcing of Circumpolar Deep Water Inflow and outlet glacier thinning in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica Annals of Glaciology Steig, E.J.; Ding, Q.; Battisti, D.S.; Jenkins, A.
Tropical dead zones and mass mortalities on coral reefs Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Andrew H. Altieri, Seamus B. Harrison, Janina Seemann, Rachel Collin, Robert J. Diaz, Nancy Knowlton
Tropical cyclones and climate change* Nature Geoscience Thomas R. Knutson, John L. McBride, Johnny Chan, Kerry Emanuel, Greg Holland, Chris Landsea, Isaac Held, James P. Kossin, A. K. Srivastava, Masato Sugi
Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Assessment: Part I Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Thomas Knutson, Suzana J. Camargo, Johnny C. L. Chan, Kerry Emanuel, Chang-Hoi Ho, James Kossin, Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Masaki Satoh, Masato Sugi, Kevin Walsh, and Liguang Wu
Tropical cyclones and climate change Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change Walsh, Kevin J.E., McBride, John L., Klotzbach, Philip J., Balachandran, Sethurathinam, Camargo, Suzana J., Holland, Greg, Knutson, Thomas R., Kossin, James P., Lee, Tsz‐cheung, Sobel, Adam, Sugi, Masato
Tropical cyclone motion in a changing climate Science Advances Gan Zhang, Hiroyuki Murakami, Thomas R. Knutson, Ryo Mizuta, Kohei Yoshida
Tropical cyclone losses in the USA and the impact of climate change Environmental Impact Assessment Review Silvio Schmidta, Claudia Kemfertb, Peter Höppe
Tropical cyclone intensification trends during satellite era (1986–2010) Geophysical Research Letters C. M. Kishtawal, Neeru Jaiswal, Randhir Singh, D. Niyogi
Trends of the timing and volume of streamflow and their relationship with climate Shen, Yanjun; Shen, Yanjun; Fink, Manfred; Flügel, Wolfgang-Albert
Trends of extreme US weather events in the changing climate Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Saahil Shenoy, Dimitry Gorinevsky, Kevin E. Trenberth , and Steven Chu