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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Causes of Robust Seasonal Land Precipitation Changes | AMS Journal of Climate | Debbie Polson and Gabriele C. Hegerl | |
| Fingerprints of changes in annual and seasonal precipitation from CMIP5 models over land and ocean | Geophysical Research Letters | Beena Balan Sarojini, Peter A. Stott, Emily Black, Debbie Polson | |
| Atlantic hurricane trends linked to climate change | Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union | Michael E. Mann and Kerry A. Emanuel | |
| Forced and Internal Twentieth-Century SST Trends in the North Atlantic | AMS Journal of Climate | Mingfang Ting, Yochanan Kushnir, Richard Seager, and Cuihua Li | |
| Has the magnitude of floods across the USA changed with global CO2 levels? | Hydrological Sciences Journal | R. M. Hirsch and K.R. Ryberg | |
| Compounding effects of warm sea surface temperature and reduced sea ice on the extreme circulation over the extratropical North Pacific and North America during the 2013–2014 boreal winter | Geophysical Research Letters | Ming‐Ying Lee, Chi‐Cherng Hong, Huang‐Hsiung Hsu | |
| Attribution of global glacier mass loss to anthropogenic and natural causes | Science | Ben Marzeion, J. Graham Cogley, Kristin Richter, David Parkes | |
| Contributions of Anthropogenic and Natural Forcing to Recent Tropopause Height Changes | Science | B. D. Santer, M. F. Wehner, T. M. L. Wigley, R. Sausen, G. A. Meehl, K. E. Taylor, C. Ammann, J. Arblaster, W. M. Washington, J. S. Boyle, W. Brüggemann | |
| Incorporating model quality information in climate change detection and attribution studies | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | B. D. Santer, K. E. Taylor, P. J. Gleckler, C. Bonfils, T. P. Barnett, D. W. Pierce, T. M. L. Wigley, C. Mears, F. J. Wentz, W. Brüggemann, N. P. Gillett, S. A. Klein, S. Solomon, P. A. Stott, M. F. Wehner | |
| Human and natural influences on the changing thermal structure of the atmosphere | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Benjamin D. Santer, Jeffrey F. Painter, Céline Bonfils, Carl A. Mears, Susan Solomon, Tom M. L. Wigley, Peter J. Gleckler, Gavin A. Schmidt, Charles Doutriaux, Nathan P. Gillett, Karl E. Taylor, Peter W. Thorne, Frank J. Wentz | |
| Identifying human influences on atmospheric temperature | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Benjamin D. Santer, Jeffrey F. Painter, Carl A. Mears, Charles Doutriaux, Peter Caldwell, Julie M. Arblaster, Philip J. Cameron-Smith, Nathan P. Gillett, Peter J. Gleckler, John Lanzante, Judith Perlwitz, Susan Solomon, Peter A. Stott, Karl E. Taylor et a | |
| Attribution of climate effects on Hurricane Harvey's extreme rainfall in Texas | Submitted: Environmental Research Letters | S.-Y. Simon Wang, Lin Zhao, Jin-Ho Yoon, Phil Klotzbach, and Robert R. Gillies | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| EEE 2011: Did Human Influence On Climate Make The 2011 Texas Drought More Probable? | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | David Rupp, Philip Mote, Neil Massey, Cameron Rye, Richard Jones, and Myles Allen | |
| EEE 2012: The Role of Global Climate Change in the Extreme Low Summer Arctic Sea Ice Extent in 2012 | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Rong Zhang and Thomas R. Knutson | |
| EEE 2012: September 2012 Arctic Sea Ice Minimum: Discriminating Between Sea Ice Memory, The August 2012 Extreme Storm, and Prevailing Warm Conditions | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Virginie Guemas, Francisco Doblas-Reyes, Agathe Germe, Matthieu Chevallier, and David Salas y Mélia | |
| EEE 2012: Hurricane Sandy Inundation Probabilities Today and Tomorrow | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | William Sweet, Chris Zervas, Stephen Gill, and Joseph Park | |
| EEE 2012: The Extreme March-May 2012 Warm Anomaly Over the Eastern United States: Global Context and Multimodel Trend Analysis | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Thomas R. Knutson, Fanrong Zeng, and Andrew T. Wittenberg |
