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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Distinguishing Pronounced Droughts in the Southwestern United States: Seasonality and Effects of Warmer Temperatures | AMS Journal of Climate | Jeremy L. Weiss | |
A multiregion model evaluation and attribution study of historical changes in the area affected by temperature and precipitation extremes | AMS Journal of Climate | Andrea J. Dittus and David J. Karoly | |
Attribution of Declining Western U.S. Snowpack to Human Effects | AMS Journal of Climate | David W. Pierce, Tim P. Barnett, Hugo G. Hidalgo, Tapash Das, Céline Bonfils, Benjamin D. Santer, Govindasamy Bala, Michael D. Dettinger, Daniel R. Cayan, Art Mirin, Andrew W. Wood, and Toru Nozawa | |
Causes of Robust Seasonal Land Precipitation Changes | AMS Journal of Climate | Debbie Polson and Gabriele C. Hegerl | |
Detection and attribution of temperature changes in the mountainous western United States | AMS Journal of Climate | Céline Bonfils, Benjamin D. Santer, David W. Pierce, Hugo G. Hidalgo, Govindasamy Bala, Tapash Das, Tim P. Barnett, Daniel R. Cayan, Charles Doutriaux, Andrew W. Wood, Art Mirin, and Toru Nozawa | |
Detection and Attribution of Streamflow Timing Changes to Climate Change in the Western United States | AMS Journal of Climate | H. G. Hidalgo, T. Das, M. D. Dettinger, D. R. Cayan, D. W. Pierce, T. P. Barnett, G. Bala, A. Mirin, A. W. Wood, C. Bonfils, B. D. Santer, and T. Nozawa | |
Attribution of extreme events in Arctic sea ice extent | AMS Journal of Climate | Megan C. Kirchmeier-Young | |
Toward Regional-Scale Climate Change Detection | AMS Journal of Climate | Francis W. Zwiers and Xuebin Zhang | |
Anatomy of an Extreme Event | AMS Journal of Climate | Martin Hoerling, Arun Kumar, Randall Dole, John W. Nielsen-Gammon, Jon Eischeid, Judith Perlwitz, Xiao-Wei Quan, Tao Zhang, Philip Pegion, and Mingyue Chen | |
Attributing Causes of 2015 Record Minimum Sea-Ice Extent in the Sea of Okhotsk | AMS Journal of Climate | Seungmok Paik, Seung-Ki Min, and Yeon-Hee Kim | |
Deducing Multidecadal Anthropogenic Global Warming Trends Using Multiple Regression Analysis | AMS Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences | Jiansong Zhou and Ka-Kit Tung | |
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 | |
Detecting an external influence on recent changes in oceanic oxygen using an optimal fingerprinting method | Biogeosciences | Andrews, O. D., Bindoff, N. L., Halloran, P. R., Ilyina, T., Quéré, C. Le | |
Using present-day observations to detect when anthropogenic change forces surface ocean carbonate chemistry outside preindustrial bounds | Biogeosciences | Sutton, Adrienne J., Sabine, Christopher L., Feely, Richard A., Cai, Wei-Jun, Cronin, Meghan F., McPhaden, Michael J., Morell, Julio M., Newton, Jan A., Noh, Jae-Hoon, Ólafsdóttir, Sólveig R., Salisbury, Joseph E., Send, Uwe et al | |
EEE 2015: The 2014/15 Snowpack Drought in Washington State and its Climate Forcing | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Boniface O. Fosu, S.-Y. Simon Wang, and Jin-Ho Yoon | |
EEE 2015: The Role of Arctic Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperatures on the Cold 2015 February Over North America | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Omar Bellprat, François Massonnet, Javier García-Serrano, Neven S. Fučkar, Virginie Guemas, and Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes | |
EEE 2015: Record Low Northern Hemisphere Sea Ice Extent in March 2015 | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Neven S. Fučkar, François Massonnet, Virginie Guemas, Javier García-Serrano, Omar Bellprat, Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes, and Mario Acosta | |
EEE 2014: Human Contribution to the 2014 Record High Sea Surface Temperatures Over the Western Tropical And Northeast Pacific Ocean | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Evan Weller, Seung-Ki Min, Donghyun Lee, Wenju Cai, Sang-Wook Yeh, and Jong-Seong Kug | |
EEE 2014: Investigating the Influence of Anthropogenic Forcing and Natural Variability on the 2014 Hawaiian Hurricane Season | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Hiroyuki Murakami, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Thomas L. Delworth, Karen Paffendorf, Richard Gudgel, Liwei Jia, and Fanrong Zeng | |
EEE 2017: Observations of the Rate and Acceleration of Global Mean Sea Level Change | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | R. S. Nerem and J. Fasullo |