Science Sources: Detection and Attribution
Climate Signals tracks detection and attribution studies in real time. Below is an updating database of studies that find the fingerprint of human-caused climate change on observed trends and events. The database is limited to studies of local significance in the United States and studies of global significance. For a broader database of peer-reviewed studies and organizational reports on climate change trends, please see all Science Sources.
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Title | Source | Date | Author(s) |
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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 | |
Attributing physical and biological impacts to anthropogenic climate change | Nature | Rosenzweig, C., D. Karoly, M. Vicarelli, P. Neofotis, Q. Wu, G. Casassa, A. Menzel, T.L. Root, N. Estrella, B. Seguin, P. Tryjanowski, C. Liu, S. Rawlins, and A. Imeson | |
Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale | Nature Climate Change | Sebastian Sippel, Nicolai Meinshausen, Erich M. Fischer, Enikő Székely, Reto Knutti | |
Increasing precipitation volatility in twenty-first-century California | Nature Climate Change | Daniel L. Swain, Baird Langenbrunner, J. David Neelin, Alex Hall | |
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021 | Nature Climate Change | A. Park Williams, Benjamin I. Cook & Jason E. Smerdon | |
Human-induced greening of the northern extratropical land surface | Nature Climate Change | Jiafu Mao, Aurélien Ribes, Binyan Yan, Xiaoying Shi, Peter E. Thornton, Roland Séférian, Philippe Ciais, Ranga B. Myneni, Hervé Douville, Shilong Piao, Zaichun Zhu, Robert E. Dickinson, Yongjiu Dai, Daniel M. Ricciuto, Mingzhou Jin et al | |
Human influence on joint changes in temperature, rainfall and continental aridity | Nature Climate Change | Céline J. W. Bonfils, Benjamin D. Santer, John C. Fyfe, Kate Marvel, Thomas J. Phillips & Susan R. H. Zimmerman | |
Arctic warming hotspot in the northern Barents Sea linked to declining sea-ice import | Nature Climate Change | Sigrid Lind, Randi B. Ingvaldsen, Tore Furevik | |
Attribution of Arctic temperature change to greenhouse-gas and aerosol influences | Nature Climate Change | Mohammad Reza Najafi, Francis W. Zwiers, Nathan P. Gillett | |
Anthropogenic forcing dominates global mean sea-level rise since 1970 | Nature Climate Change | Aimée B. A. Slangen, John A. Church, Cecile Agosta, Xavier Fettweis, Ben Marzeion, Kristin Richter | |
Attribution of climate extreme events | Nature Climate Change | Kevin E. Trenberth, John T. Fasullo & Theodore G. Shepherd | |
California from drought to deluge | Nature Climate Change | S.-Y. Simon Wang, Jin-Ho Yoon, Emily Becker and Robert Gillies | |
Anthropogenic contribution to global occurrence of heavy-precipitation and high-temperature extremes | Nature Climate Change | E. M. Fischer, R. Knutti | |
Detecting regional anthropogenic trends in ocean acidification against natural variability | Nature Climate Change | T. Friedrich, A. Timmermann, A. Abe-Ouchi, N. R. Bates, M. O. Chikamoto, M. J. Church, J. E. Dore, D. K. Gledhill, M. González-Dávila, M. Heinemann, T. Ilyina, J. H. Jungclaus, E. McLeod, A. Mouchet, J. M. Santana-Casiano | |
Detecting anthropogenic footprints in sea level rise | Nature Communications | Sönke Dangendorf, Marta Marcos, Alfred Müller, Eduardo Zorita, Riccardo Riva, Kevin Berk, Jürgen Jensen | |
Satellites reveal hotspots of global river extent change | Nature Communications | ||
Social inequalities in climate change-attributed impacts of Hurricane Harvey | Nature Communications | Kevin T. Smiley, Ilan Noy, Michael F. Wehner, Dave Frame, Christopher C. Sampson & Oliver E. J. Wing | |
Increasing trends in regional heatwaves | Nature Communications | S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, S. C. Lewis | |
Anthropogenic and natural warming inferred from changes in Earth’s energy balance | Nature Geoscience | Markus Huber and Reto Knutti | |
Changing intensity of hydroclimatic extreme events revealed by GRACE and GRACE-FO | Nature Water |