Science Sources: Fingerprints Everywhere
The study database presented here includes the 214 detection and attribution studies identified in the following report: Fingerprints Everywhere: Review and Analysis of Detection and Attribution Studies Finding the Fingerprint of Climate Change in US and Global Trends and Events. The report, available here, was published in September 2018.
To search or browse an updating database of detection and attribution studies, including studies published since September 2018, visit Science Sources: Detection and Attribution, or learn more about detection and attribution studies.
Title | Source | Date | Author(s) |
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Widespread persistent changes to temperature extremes occurred earlier than predicted | Scientific Reports | Chao Li, Yuanyuan Fang, Ken Caldeira, Xuebin Zhang, Noah S. Diffenbaugh and Anna M. Michalak | |
Water and energy budgets of hurricanes: Case studies of Ivan and Katrina | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | Trenberth, Kevin E., Davis, Christopher A., Fasullo, John | |
Using present-day observations to detect when anthropogenic change forces surface ocean carbonate chemistry outside preindustrial bounds | Biogeosciences | Sutton, Adrienne J., Sabine, Christopher L., Feely, Richard A., Cai, Wei-Jun, Cronin, Meghan F., McPhaden, Michael J., Morell, Julio M., Newton, Jan A., Noh, Jae-Hoon, Ólafsdóttir, Sólveig R., Salisbury, Joseph E., Send, Uwe et al | |
Unusually high temperatures at the North Pole, winter 2016 | World Weather Attribution | ||
Unnatural Coastal Floods: Sea level rise and the human fingerprint on U.S. floods since 1950 | Climate Central | Benjamin H. Strauss, Robert E. Kopp, William V. Sweet, Klaus Bittermann | |
U.S. Heat, February 2017 | World Weather Attribution | Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Andrew King, Friederike Otto, Gabriel Vecchi, Claudia Tebaldi, and Heidi Cullen | |
Trends in Weather Extremes | World Weather Attribution | Geert Jan van Oldenborgh | |
Towards the detection and attribution of an anthropogenic effect on climate | Climate Dynamics | Benjamin D. Santer, Karl E. Taylor, Tom M. L. Wigley, Joyce E. Penner, Philip D. Jones, Ulrich Cubasch | |
Toward Regional-Scale Climate Change Detection | AMS Journal of Climate | Francis W. Zwiers and Xuebin Zhang | |
The twenty‐first century Colorado River hot drought and implications for the future | Water Resources Research | Bradley Udall, Jonathan Overpeck | |
The Role of Human Activity in the Recent Warming of Extremely Warm Daytime Temperatures | AMS Journal of Climate | Nikolaos Christidis, Peter A. Stott, and Simon J. Brown | |
The contribution of anthropogenic forcings to regional changes in temperature during the last decade | Climate Dynamics | Nikolaos Christidis, Peter A. Stott, Francis W. Zwiers, Hideo Shiogama, Toru Nozawa | |
The 2016 Southeastern U.S. Drought: An Extreme Departure From Centennial Wetting and Cooling | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | A. Park Williams, Benjamin I. Cook, Jason E. Smerdon, Daniel A. Bishop, Richard Seager, Justin S. Mankin | |
Temperature impacts on the water year 2014 drought in California | Geophysical Research Letters | Shraddhanand Shukla, Mohammad Safeeq, Amir AghaKouchak, Kaiyu Guan, Chris Funk | |
Synoptic and quantitative attributions of the extreme precipitation leading to the August 2016 Louisiana flood | Geophysical Research Letters | S.‐Y. Simon Wang, Lin Zhao, Robert R. Gillies | |
Synoptic and Climate Attributions of the December 2015 Extreme Flooding in Missouri, USA | Water | Boniface Fosu, Simon Wang, and Kathleen Pegion | |
Structure and Detectability of Trends in Hydrological Measures over the Western United States | Journal of Hydrometeorology | T. Das, H. G. Hidalgo, M. D. Dettinger, D. R. Cayan, D. W. Pierce, C. Bonfils, T. P. Barnett, G. Bala and A. Mirin | |
Southern Ocean warming due to human influence | Geophysical Research Letters | John C. Fyfe | |
Single‐step attribution of increasing frequencies of very warm regional temperatures to human influence | Atmospheric Science Letters | Peter A. Stott, Gareth S. Jones, Nikolaos Christidis, Francis W. Zwiers, Gabriele Hegerl, Hideo Shiogama | |
Simulations of Hurricane Katrina (2005) under sea level and climate conditions for 1900 | Climatic Change | Jennifer L. Irish, Alison Sleath, Mary A. Cialone, Thomas R. Knutson, Robert E. Jensen |