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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Causes of the 2011–14 California Drought | AMS Journal of Climate | Richard Seager, Martin Hoerling, Siegfried Schubert, Hailan Wang, Bradfield Lyon, Arun Kumar, Jennifer Nakamura, and Naomi Henderson | |
Human Contribution to the Lengthening of the Growing Season during 1950–99 | AMS Journal of Climate | Nikolaos Christidis, Peter A. Stott, and Simon Brown | |
Detection and Attribution of Observed Changes in Northern Hemisphere Spring Snow Cover | AMS Journal of Climate | David E. Rupp and Philip W. Mote | |
Detecting Greenhouse-Gas-Induced Climate Change with an Optimal Fingerprint Method | AMS Journal of Climate | Hegerl, G.C., H.v. Storch, K. Hasselmann, B.D. Santer, U. Cubasch, and P.D. Jones | |
Model Assessment of Observed Precipitation Trends Over Land Regions: Detectable Human Influences and Possible Low Bias in Model Trends | AMS Journal of Climate | Thomas R. Knutson and Fanrong Zeng | |
Change in the Odds of Warm Years and Seasons Due to Anthropogenic Influence on the Climate | AMS Journal of Climate | Nikolaos Christidis and Peter A. Stott | |
Anthropogenic Warming of the Oceans: Observations and Model Results | AMS Journal of Climate | David W. Pierce and Tim P. Barnett | |
Detectable Changes in the Frequency of Temperature Extremes | AMS Journal of Climate | Simone Morak, Gabriele C. Hegerl, and Nikolaos Christidis | |
Forced and Internal Twentieth-Century SST Trends in the North Atlantic | AMS Journal of Climate | Mingfang Ting, Yochanan Kushnir, Richard Seager, and Cuihua Li | |
A multiregion model evaluation and attribution study of historical changes in the area affected by temperature and precipitation extremes | AMS Journal of Climate | Andrea J. Dittus and David J. Karoly | |
Attribution of Declining Western U.S. Snowpack to Human Effects | AMS Journal of Climate | David W. Pierce, Tim P. Barnett, Hugo G. Hidalgo, Tapash Das, Céline Bonfils, Benjamin D. Santer, Govindasamy Bala, Michael D. Dettinger, Daniel R. Cayan, Art Mirin, Andrew W. Wood, and Toru Nozawa | |
Causes of Robust Seasonal Land Precipitation Changes | AMS Journal of Climate | Debbie Polson and Gabriele C. Hegerl | |
Detection and attribution of temperature changes in the mountainous western United States | AMS Journal of Climate | Céline Bonfils, Benjamin D. Santer, David W. Pierce, Hugo G. Hidalgo, Govindasamy Bala, Tapash Das, Tim P. Barnett, Daniel R. Cayan, Charles Doutriaux, Andrew W. Wood, Art Mirin, and Toru Nozawa | |
Attribution of extreme events in Arctic sea ice extent | AMS Journal of Climate | Megan C. Kirchmeier-Young | |
Toward Regional-Scale Climate Change Detection | AMS Journal of Climate | Francis W. Zwiers and Xuebin Zhang | |
Detection and Attribution of Streamflow Timing Changes to Climate Change in the Western United States | AMS Journal of Climate | H. G. Hidalgo, T. Das, M. D. Dettinger, D. R. Cayan, D. W. Pierce, T. P. Barnett, G. Bala, A. Mirin, A. W. Wood, C. Bonfils, B. D. Santer, and T. Nozawa | |
Attributing Causes of 2015 Record Minimum Sea-Ice Extent in the Sea of Okhotsk | AMS Journal of Climate | Seungmok Paik, Seung-Ki Min, and Yeon-Hee Kim | |
Anatomy of an Extreme Event | AMS Journal of Climate | Martin Hoerling, Arun Kumar, Randall Dole, John W. Nielsen-Gammon, Jon Eischeid, Judith Perlwitz, Xiao-Wei Quan, Tao Zhang, Philip Pegion, and Mingyue Chen | |
Detection of human influence on a new, validated 1500-year temperature reconstruction | AMS Journal of Climate | Gabriele C. Hegerl, Thomas J. Crowley, Myles Allen, William T. Hyde, Henry N. Pollack, Jason Smerdon, and Eduardo Zorita | |
Multimodel Detection and Attribution of Extreme Temperature Changes | AMS Journal of Climate | Seung-Ki Min, Xuebin Zhang, Francis Zwiers, Hideo Shiogama, Yu-Shiang Tung, and Michael Wehner |