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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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 | |
Record Temperature Streak Bears Anthropogenic Fingerprint | Geophysical Research Letters | Mann, Michael E., Miller, Sonya K., Rahmstorf, Stefan, Steinman, Byron A., Tingley, Martin | |
Record Hot Year, 2015 | World Weather Attribution | ||
Recent intense hurricane response to global climate change | Climate Dynamics | Greg Holland, Cindy L. Bruyère | |
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 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 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 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 | |
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021 | Nature Climate Change | A. Park Williams, Benjamin I. Cook & Jason E. Smerdon | |
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 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 | |
Quantile-based bias correction and uncertainty quantification of extreme event attribution statements | Weather and Climate Extremes | Jeon, Paciorek, and Wehner | |
Quantifying the influence of global warming on unprecedented extreme climate events | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Deepti Singh, Justin S. Mankin, Daniel E. Horton, Daniel L. Swain, Danielle Touma, Allison Charland, Yunjie Liu, Matz Haugen, Michael Tsiang, Bala Rajaratnam | |
Quantifying statistical uncertainty in the attribution of human influence on severe weather | Weather and Climate Extremes | Paciorek, Stone, and Wehner | |
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 | |
Quantifying anthropogenic influence on recent near-surface temperature change | Surveys in Geophysics | M. R. Allen, N. P. Gillett, J. A. Kettleborough, G. Hegerl, R. Schnur, P. A. Stott, G. Boer, C. Covey, T. L. Delworth, G. S. Jones, J. F. B. Mitchell, T. P. Barnett | |
Quantifying anthropogenic and natural contributions to thermosteric sea level rise | Geophysical Research Letters | Marta Marcos, Angel Amores | |
Projected Atlantic hurricane surge threat from rising temperatures | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Aslak Grinsted, John C. Moore, Svetlana Jevrejeva | |
Probabilistic estimates of recent changes in temperature: a multi-scale attribution analysis | Climate Dynamics | Nikolaos Christidis, Peter A. Stott, Francis W. Zwiers, Hideo Shiogama, Toru Nozawa | |
Physical Understanding of Human-Induced Changes in U.S. Hot Droughts Using Equilibrium Climate Simulations | Journal of Climate | Linyin Cheng |