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)
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.)
Attribution of climate extreme events Nature Climate Change Kevin E. Trenberth, John T. Fasullo & Theodore G. Shepherd
NCA 4: Climate Change Impacts in the United States (Volume I) U.S. Global Change Research Program Donald Wuebbles, David Fahey, and Kathleen Hibbard
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
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
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Increasing heat-stress inequality in a warming climate Earth's Future Mohammad Reza Alizadeh, John T. Abatzoglou, Jan F. Adamowski, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Bhaskar Chittoori, Ata Akbari Asanjan, Mojtaba Sadegh
Unraveling a century of global change impacts on winter bird distributions in the eastern United States Global Change Biology
Inequitable patterns of US flood risk in the Anthropocene Nature Climate change Oliver E. J. Wing, William Lehman, Paul D. Bates, Christopher C. Sampson, Niall Quinn, Andrew M. Smith, Jeffrey C. Neal, Jeremy R. Porter & Carolyn Kousky
Trends in surface equivalent potential temperature: A more comprehensive metric for global warming and weather extremes Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Fengfei Song, Guang J. Zhang, V. Ramanathan, and L. Ruby Leung
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
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021 Nature Climate Change A. Park Williams, Benjamin I. Cook & Jason E. Smerdon
Decreasing rainfall frequency contributes to earlier leaf onset in northern ecosystems Nature Climate Change Jian Wang, Desheng Liu, Philippe Ciais & Josep Peñuelas
Timing of emergence of modern rates of sea-level rise by 1863 Nature Communications Jennifer S. Walker, Robert E. Kopp, Christopher M. Little & Benjamin P. Horton
Growing impact of wildfire on western US water supply Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences A. Park Williams, Ben Livneh, Karen A. McKinnon, Winslow D. Hansen, Justin S. Mankin, Benjamin I. Cook, Jason E. Smerdon, Arianna M. Varuolo-Clarke, Nels R. Bjarke, Caroline S. Juang, and Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Concentrated and Intensifying Humid Heat Extremes in the IPCC AR6 Regions Geophysical Research Letters Simone Speizer, Colin Raymond, Catherine Ivanovich, and Radley M. Horton
Severe Lake Heatwaves Attributable to Human-Induced Global Warming Geophysical Research Letters R. Iestyn Woolway, Clément Albergel, Thomas L. Frölicher, and Marjorie Perroud
Emergence of climate change in the tropical Pacific Jun Ying, Matthew Collins, Wenju Cai, Axel Timmermann, Ping Huang, Dake Chen & Karl Stein
Association of Tropical Cyclones With County-Level Mortality in the US Journal of the American Medical Association Robbie M. Parks, PhD; Jaime Benavides, PhD G. Brooke Anderson, PhD; Rachel C. Nethery, PhD; Ana Navas-Acien, PhD; Francesca Dominici, PhD; Majid Ezzati, PhD; Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, ScD
Monitoring global carbon emissions in 2021 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment Zhu Liu, Zhu Deng, Steven J. Davis, Clement Giron & Philippe Ciais
Climate change affects bird nesting phenology: Comparing contemporary field and historical museum nesting records Journal of Animal Ecology John M. Bates, Mason Fidino, Laurel Nowak-Boyd, Bill M. Strausberger, Kenneth A. Schmidt, and Christopher J. Whelan
A Multidataset Assessment of Climatic Drivers and Uncertainties of Recent Trends in Evaporative Demand across the Continental United States Journal of Hydrometeorology Christine M. Albano, John T. Abatzoglou, Daniel J. McEvoy, Justin L. Huntington, Charles G. Morton, Michael D. Dettinger, and Thomas J. Ott
Extreme Atlantic hurricane seasons made twice as likely by ocean warming Journal of Weather and Climate Dynamics Peter Pfleiderer , Shruti Nath, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk Colin J. Carlson, Gregory F. Albery, Cory Merow, Christopher H. Trisos, Casey M. Zipfel, Evan A. Eskew, Kevin J. Olival, Noam Ross & Shweta Bansal
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
5th National Risk Assessment: Fueling the Flames First Street Foundation