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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Quantile-based bias correction and uncertainty quantification of extreme event attribution statements | Weather and Climate Extremes | Jeon, Paciorek, and Wehner | |
Rapid attribution of the August 2016 flood-inducing extreme precipitation in south Louisiana to climate change | World Weather Attribution, Hydrology and Earth Systems Science | Karin van der Wiel, Sarah B. Kapnick, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Kirien Whan, Sjoukje Philip, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Roop K. Singh, Julie Arrighi, and Heidi Cullen | |
Rapid attribution of the extreme rainfall in Texas from Tropical Storm Imelda | World Weather Attribution | Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Karin van der Wiel, Sjoukje Philip & Sarah Kew | |
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021 | Nature Climate Change | A. Park Williams, Benjamin I. Cook & Jason E. Smerdon | |
Recent Advances and Remaining Uncertainties in Resolving Past and Future Climate Effects on Global Fire Activity | Current Climate Change Reports | A. Park Williams, John T. Abatzoglou | |
Recent amplification of the North American winter temperature dipole | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | Singh, Deepti, Swain, Daniel L., Mankin, Justin S., Horton, Daniel E., Thomas, Leif N., Rajaratnam, Bala, Diffenbaugh, Noah S. | |
Recent increase in catastrophic tropical cyclone flooding in coastal North Carolina, USA: Long-term observations suggest a regime shift | Scientific Reports | Hans W. Paerl, Nathan S. Hall, Alexandria G. Hounshell, Richard A. Luettich, Karen L. Rossignol, Christopher L. Osburn, Jerad Bales | |
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 | |
Recent intense hurricane response to global climate change | Climate Dynamics | Greg Holland, Cindy L. Bruyère | |
Record Hot Year, 2015 | World Weather Attribution | ||
Record Temperature Streak Bears Anthropogenic Fingerprint | Geophysical Research Letters | Mann, Michael E., Miller, Sonya K., Rahmstorf, Stefan, Steinman, Byron A., Tingley, Martin | |
Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019 | Advances in Atmospheric Sciences | Lijing Chengm, John Abraham, Jiang Zhu, Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo,Tim Boyer, Ricardo Locarnini, Bin Zhang, Fujiang Yu, Liying Wan, Xingrong Chen, Xiangzhou Song, Yulong Liu, and Michael E. Mann | |
Role of the strengthened El Niño teleconnection in the May 2015 floods over the southern Great Plains | Geophysical Research Letters | Simon Wang, S.‐Y., Huang, Wan‐Ru, Hsu, Huang‐Hsiung, Gillies, Robert R. | |
Satellites reveal hotspots of global river extent change | Nature Communications | ||
Sea-level rise and other influences on decadal-scale salinity variability in a coastal plain estuary | Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science | Andrew C. Ross, Raymond G. Najjar, Ming Li, Michael E. Mann, Susan E. Ford, Brandon Katz | |
Seasonal Climate Variability and Change in the Pacific Northwest of the United States | American Meteorological Society | John T. Abatzoglou, David E. Rupp and Philip W. Mote | |
Severe Continental-Scale Impacts of Climate Change Are Happening Now: Extreme Climate Events Impact Marine Habitat Forming Communities Along 45% of Australia’s Coast | Frontiers in Marine Science | Babcock, Russell C., Bustamante, Rodrigo H., Fulton, Elizabeth A., Fulton, Derek J., Haywood, Michael D. E., Hobday, Alistair James, Kenyon, Robert, Matear, Richard James, Plagányi, Eva E., Richardson, Anthony J., Vanderklift, Mathew A. | |
Severe Lake Heatwaves Attributable to Human-Induced Global Warming | Geophysical Research Letters | R. Iestyn Woolway, Clément Albergel, Thomas L. Frölicher, and Marjorie Perroud | |
Signal detectability in extreme precipitation changes assessed from twentieth century climate simulations | Climate Dynamics | Seung-Ki Min, Xuebin Zhang, Francis W. Zwiers, Petra Friederichs, Andreas Hense | |
Significant anthropogenic-induced changes of climate classes since 1950 | Nature | Duo Chan, Qigang Wu |