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.
| Title | Source | Date | Author(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| The heatwave in North India and Pakistan in April-May 2022 | UK Met Office | Nikolaos Christidis | |
| The role of human-induced climate change in heavy rainfall events such as the one associated with Typhoon Hagibis | Climatic Change | Sihan Li & Friederike E. L. Otto | |
| 5th National Risk Assessment: Fueling the Flames | First Street Foundation | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Monitoring global carbon emissions in 2021 | Nature Reviews Earth & Environment | Zhu Liu, Zhu Deng, Steven J. Davis, Clement Giron & Philippe Ciais | |
| 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 | |
| Emergence of climate change in the tropical Pacific | Jun Ying, Matthew Collins, Wenju Cai, Axel Timmermann, Ping Huang, Dake Chen & Karl Stein | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Decreasing rainfall frequency contributes to earlier leaf onset in northern ecosystems | Nature Climate Change | Jian Wang, Desheng Liu, Philippe Ciais & Josep Peñuelas | |
| Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021 | Nature Climate Change | A. Park Williams, Benjamin I. Cook & Jason E. Smerdon | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
