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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The contribution of anthropogenic forcings to regional changes in temperature during the last decade | Climate Dynamics | Nikolaos Christidis, Peter A. Stott, Francis W. Zwiers, Hideo Shiogama, Toru Nozawa | |
The 2021 western North America heat wave among the most extreme events ever recorded globally | Science Advances | Vikki Thompson, Alan T. Kennedy-Asser, Emily Vosper, Y. T. Eunice Lo, Chris Huntingford, Oliver Andrews, Matthew Collins, Gabrielle C. Hegerland, and Dann Mitchell | |
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 | |
Temperature-driven global sea-level variability in the Common Era | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Robert E. Kopp, Andrew C. Kemp, Klaus Bittermann, Benjamin P. Horton, Jeffrey P. Donnelly, W. Roland Gehrels, Carling C. Hay, Jerry X. Mitrovica, Eric D. Morrow, Stefan Rahmstorf | |
Temperature impacts on the water year 2014 drought in California | Geophysical Research Letters | Shraddhanand Shukla, Mohammad Safeeq, Amir AghaKouchak, Kaiyu Guan, Chris Funk | |
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 | |
Structure and Detectability of Trends in Hydrological Measures over the Western United States | Journal of Hydrometeorology | T. Das, H. G. Hidalgo, M. D. Dettinger, D. R. Cayan, D. W. Pierce, C. Bonfils, T. P. Barnett, G. Bala and A. Mirin | |
Southern Ocean warming due to human influence | Geophysical Research Letters | John C. Fyfe | |
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 | |
Single‐step attribution of increasing frequencies of very warm regional temperatures to human influence | Atmospheric Science Letters | Peter A. Stott, Gareth S. Jones, Nikolaos Christidis, Francis W. Zwiers, Gabriele Hegerl, Hideo Shiogama | |
Simulations of Hurricane Katrina (2005) under sea level and climate conditions for 1900 | Climatic Change | Jennifer L. Irish, Alison Sleath, Mary A. Cialone, Thomas R. Knutson, Robert E. Jensen | |
Significant anthropogenic-induced changes of climate classes since 1950 | Nature | Duo Chan, Qigang Wu | |
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 | |
Severe Lake Heatwaves Attributable to Human-Induced Global Warming | Geophysical Research Letters | R. Iestyn Woolway, Clément Albergel, Thomas L. Frölicher, and Marjorie Perroud | |
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. | |
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 | |
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 | |
Satellites reveal hotspots of global river extent change | Nature Communications | ||
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. |