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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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 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 | |
Perspectives on the causes of exceptionally low 2015 snowpack in the western United States | Geophysical Research Letters | Mote, Philip W., Rupp, David E., Li, Sihan, Sharp, Darrin J., Otto, Friederike, Uhe, Peter F., Xiao, Mu, Lettenmaier, Dennis P., Cullen, Heidi, Allen, Myles R. | |
One hundred years of Arctic surface temperature variation due to anthropogenic influence | Scientific Reports | John C. Fyfe, Knut von Salzen, Nathan P. Gillett, Vivek K. Arora, Gregory M. Flato, Joseph R. McConnell | |
Observed impacts of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire in California | Earth's Future | A. Park Williams, John T. Abatzoglou, Alexander Gershunov, Janin Guzman‐Morales, Daniel A. Bishop, Jennifer K. Balch, Dennis P. Lettenmaier | |
Observed Arctic sea-ice loss directly follows anthropogenic CO2 emission | Science | Dirk Notz, Julienne Stroeve | |
Observations reveal external driver for Arctic sea‐ice retreat | Geophysical Research Letters | Dirk Notz, Jochem Marotzke | |
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 | |
Multimodel Multisignal Climate Change Detection at Regional Scale | AMS Journal of Climate | Xuebin Zhang | |
Multimodel Detection and Attribution of Extreme Temperature Changes | AMS Journal of Climate | Seung-Ki Min, Xuebin Zhang, Francis Zwiers, Hideo Shiogama, Yu-Shiang Tung, and Michael Wehner | |
Multi-model attribution of upper-ocean temperature changes using an isothermal approach | Scientific Reports | Evan Weller, Seung-Ki Min, Matthew D. Palmer, Donghyun Lee, Bo Young Yim, Sang-Wook Yeh | |
Multi-method attribution analysis of extreme precipitation in Boulder, Colorado | Environmental Research Letters | Jonathan M Eden, Klaus Wolter, Friederike E L Otto, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh |