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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Deducing Multidecadal Anthropogenic Global Warming Trends Using Multiple Regression Analysis | AMS Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences | Jiansong Zhou and Ka-Kit Tung | |
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 | |
Detecting climate signals in the surface temperature record | AMS Journal of Climate | Gerald R. North and Mark J. Stevens | |
Dominant Role of Subtropical Pacific Warming in Extreme Eastern Pacific Hurricane Seasons: 2015 and the Future | AMS Journal of Climate | Hiroyuki Murakami, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Thomas L. Delworth, Andrew T. Wittenberg, Seth Underwood, Richard Gudgel, Xiaosong Yang, Liwei Jia, Fanrong Zeng, Karen Paffendorf, and Wei Zhang | |
Is There a Role for Human-Induced Climate Change in the Precipitation Decline that Drove the California Drought? | AMS Journal of Climate | Richard Seager, Naomi Henderson, Mark A. Cane, Haibo Liu, and Jennifer Nakamura | |
Multimodel Multisignal Climate Change Detection at Regional Scale | AMS Journal of Climate | Xuebin Zhang | |
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 | |
Detection and Attribution of Observed Changes in Northern Hemisphere Spring Snow Cover | AMS Journal of Climate | David E. Rupp and Philip W. Mote | |
Human Contribution to the Lengthening of the Growing Season during 1950–99 | AMS Journal of Climate | Nikolaos Christidis, Peter A. Stott, and Simon Brown | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Forced and Internal Twentieth-Century SST Trends in the North Atlantic | AMS Journal of Climate | Mingfang Ting, Yochanan Kushnir, Richard Seager, and Cuihua Li | |
Distinguishing Pronounced Droughts in the Southwestern United States: Seasonality and Effects of Warmer Temperatures | AMS Journal of Climate | Jeremy L. Weiss | |
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 | |
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 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 |