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) |
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Unraveling a century of global change impacts on winter bird distributions in the eastern United States | Global Change Biology | ||
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 | |
Sixfold Increase in Historical Northern Hemisphere Concurrent Large Heatwaves Driven by Warming and Changing Atmospheric Circulations | American Meteorological Society | Cassandra D. W. Rogers , Kai Kornhuber , Sarah E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick , Paul C. Loikith , and Deepti Singh | |
Timing and magnitude of climate-driven range shifts in transboundary fish stocks challenge their management | Global Change Biology | Juliano Palacios-Abrantes, Thomas L. Frölicher, Gabriel Reygondeau, U. Rashid Sumaila, Alessandro Tagliabue, Colette C. C. Wabnitz, William W. L. Cheung | |
Another Record: Ocean Warming Continues through 2021 despite La Niña Conditions | Advances in Atmospheric Sciences | Lijing Cheng, John Abraham, Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo, Tim Boyer, Michael E. Mann, Jiang Zhu, Fan Wang, Ricardo Locarnini, Yuanlong Li, Bin Zhang, Zhetao Tan, Fujiang Yu, Liying Wan, Xingrong Chen, Xiangzhou Song, Yulong Liu, et al. | |
Atlantic tropical cyclones downscaled from climate reanalyses show increasing activity over past 150 years | Nature Communications | Kerry Emanuel | |
Observed increases in extreme fire weather driven by atmospheric humidity and temperature | Nature Climate Change | Piyush Jain, Dante Castellanos-Acuna, Sean C. P. Coogan, John T. Abatzoglou & Mike D. Flannigan | |
Plague risk in the western United States over seven decades of environmental change | Global Change Biology | Colin J. Carlson, Sarah N. Bevins, Boris V. Schmid | |
Wildfire response to changing daily temperature extremes in California’s Sierra Nevada | Science Advances | Aurora A. Gutierrez, Stijn Hantson, Baird Langenbrunner, Bin Chen, Yufang Jin, Michael L. Goulden, and James T. Randerson | |
Forest fires and climate-induced tree range shifts in the western US | Nature Communications | Avery P. Hill & Christopher B. Field | |
Global Temperatures Over Last 24,000 Years Show Today's Warming 'Unprecedented' | Nature | Matthew Osman, Jessica Tierney, Jonathan King, Jiang Zhu, Robert Tardif, Gregory J. Hakim, and Christopher J. Poulsen | |
Increasingly frequent wildfires linked to human-caused climate change, UCLA-led study finds | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Yizhou Zhuang, Alex Hall, Benjamin Santer, and Robert Dickinson | |
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 | |
Vermont Climate Assessment 2021 | University of Vermont | Gillian Galford et al. | |
Recent increases in tropical cyclone precipitation extremes over the US east coast | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Justin T. Maxwell, Joshua C. Bregy, Scott M. Robeson, Paul A. Knapp, Peter T. Soulé, and Valerie Trouet | |
Global urban population exposure to extreme heat | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Cascade Tuholske, Kelly Caylor, Chris Funk, Andrew Verdin, Stuart Sweeney, Kathryn Grace, Pete Peterson, and Tom Evans | |
Status of Coral Reefs of the World 2020 | United Nations Environment Programme | ICRI, GCRMN, Australia Institute of Marine Science, | |
Estimated Mortality and Morbidity Attributable to Smoke Plumes in the United States: Not Just a Western US Problem | GeoHealth | Katelyn O’Dell, Kelsey Bilsback, Bonne Ford, Sheena E. Martenies, Sheryl Magzamen, Emily V. Fischer, and Jeffrey R. Pierce | |
Attributable human-induced changes in the magnitude of flooding in the Houston, Texas region during Hurricane Harvey | Climatic Change | Michael Wehner & Christopher Sampson | |
Current Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation weakest in last millennium | Nature Geoscience | L. Caesar, G. D. McCarthy, D. J. R. Thornalley, N. Cahill & S. Rahmstorf |