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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Human-Induced Changes in the Hydrology of the Western United States | Science | Tim P. Barnett, David W. Pierce, Hugo G. Hidalgo, Celine Bonfils, Benjamin D. Santer, Tapash Das, Govindasamy Bala, Andrew W. Wood, Toru Nozawa, Arthur A. Mirin, Daniel R. Cayan, Michael D. Dettinger | |
Anthropogenic Warming of Earth's Climate System | Science | Sydney Levitus, John I. Antonov, Julian Wang, Thomas L. Delworth, Keith W. Dixon, Anthony J. Broccoli | |
Colorado River flow dwindles as warming-driven loss of reflective snow energizes evaporation | Science | P. C. D. Milly, K. A. Dunne | |
Detection of Anthropogenic Climate Change in the World's Oceans | Science | Tim P. Barnett, David W. Pierce, Reiner Schnur | |
Human-induced arctic moistening | Science | Seung-Ki Min, Xuebin Zhang, Francis Zwiers | |
Global urban population exposure to extreme heat | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Cascade Tuholske, Kelly Caylor, Chris Funk, Andrew Verdin, Stuart Sweeney, Kathryn Grace, Pete Peterson, and Tom Evans | |
Recent increases in tropical cyclone precipitation extremes over the US east coast | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Justin T. Maxwell, Joshua C. Bregy, Scott M. Robeson, Paul A. Knapp, Peter T. Soulé, and Valerie Trouet | |
Projected Atlantic hurricane surge threat from rising temperatures | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Aslak Grinsted, John C. Moore, Svetlana Jevrejeva | |
Increasingly frequent wildfires linked to human-caused climate change, UCLA-led study finds | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Yizhou Zhuang, Alex Hall, Benjamin Santer, and Robert Dickinson | |
Hurricane Sandy’s flood frequency increasing from year 1800 to 2100 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Ning Lin, Robert E. Kopp, Benjamin P. Horton, Jeffrey P. Donnelly | |
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 | |
Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | John T. Abatzoglou and A. Park Williams | |
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 | |
Increase of extreme events in a warming world | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou | |
Increased threat of tropical cyclones and coastal flooding to New York City during the anthropogenic era | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Andra J. Reed, Michael E. Mann, Kerry A. Emanuel, Ning Lin, Benjamin P. Horton, Andrew C. Kemp, and Jeffrey P. Donnelly | |
Quantifying contributions of natural variability and anthropogenic forcings on increased fire weather risk over the western United States | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Yizhou Zhuang, Rong Fu, Benjamin D. Santer, Robert E. Dickinson, and Alex Hall | |
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 | |
Climate change and California drought in the 21st century | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Michael E. Mann, Peter H. Gleick | |
Normalized US hurricane damage estimates using area of total destruction, 1900−2018 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Aslak Grinsted, Peter Ditlevsen, Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen | |
Anthropogenic warming has increased drought risk in California | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Daniel L. Swain, and Danielle Toum |