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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Climate change and California drought in the 21st century | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Michael E. Mann, Peter H. Gleick | |
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 | |
Anthropogenic warming has increased drought risk in California | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Daniel L. Swain, and Danielle Toum | |
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 | |
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 | |
Identification of human-induced changes in atmospheric moisture content | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | B. D. Santer, C. Mears, F. J. Wentz, K. E. Taylor , P. J. Gleckler, T. M. L. Wigley, T. P. Barnett, J. S. Boyle, W. Brüggemann, N. P. Gillett, S. A. Klein, G. A. Meehl, T. Nozawa, D. W. Pierce, P. A. Stott, W. M. Washington, and M. F. Wehner | |
Detected climatic change in global distribution of tropical cyclones | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Hiroyuki Murakami, Thomas L. Delworth, William F. Cooke, Ming Zhao, Baoqiang Xiang, Pang-Chi Hsu | |
Forced and unforced ocean temperature changes in Atlantic and Pacific tropical cyclogenesis regions | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | B. D. Santer, T. M. L. Wigley, P. J. Gleckler, C. Bonfils, M. F. Wehner, K. AchutaRao, T. P. Barnett, J. S. Boyle, W. Brüggemann, M. Fiorino, N. Gillett, J. E. Hansen, P. D. Jones, S. A. Klein, G. A. Meehl, S. C. B. Raper, R. W. Reynolds et al | |
Global increase in major tropical cyclone exceedance probability over the past four decades | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | James P. Kossin, Kenneth R. Knapp, Timothy L. Olander, Christopher S. Velden | |
Human-induced arctic moistening | Science | Seung-Ki Min, Xuebin Zhang, Francis Zwiers | |
Detection of a Human Influence on North American Climate | Science | David J. Karoly, Karl Braganza, Peter A. Stott, Julie M. Arblaster, Gerald A. Meehl, Anthony J. Broccoli, Keith W. Dixon | |
Observed Arctic sea-ice loss directly follows anthropogenic CO2 emission | Science | Dirk Notz, Julienne Stroeve | |
Contributions of Anthropogenic and Natural Forcing to Recent Tropopause Height Changes | Science | B. D. Santer, M. F. Wehner, T. M. L. Wigley, R. Sausen, G. A. Meehl, K. E. Taylor, C. Ammann, J. Arblaster, W. M. Washington, J. S. Boyle, W. Brüggemann | |
Attribution of global glacier mass loss to anthropogenic and natural causes | Science | Ben Marzeion, J. Graham Cogley, Kristin Richter, David Parkes | |
Human-Induced Changes in the Hydrology of the Western United States | Science | Tim P. Barnett, David W. Pierce, Hugo G. Hidalgo, Celine Bonfils, Benjamin D. Santer, Tapash Das, Govindasamy Bala, Andrew W. Wood, Toru Nozawa, Arthur A. Mirin, Daniel R. Cayan, Michael D. Dettinger | |
Anthropogenic Warming of Earth's Climate System | Science | Sydney Levitus, John I. Antonov, Julian Wang, Thomas L. Delworth, Keith W. Dixon, Anthony J. Broccoli | |
Colorado River flow dwindles as warming-driven loss of reflective snow energizes evaporation | Science | P. C. D. Milly, K. A. Dunne | |
Detection of Anthropogenic Climate Change in the World's Oceans | Science | Tim P. Barnett, David W. Pierce, Reiner Schnur | |
Unprecedented climate events: Historical changes, aspirational targets, and national commitments | Science Advances | Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Deepti Singh, and Justin S. Mankin | |
Human-caused Indo-Pacific warm pool expansion | Science Advances | Evan Weller, Seung-Ki Min, Wenju Cai, Francis W. Zwiers, Yeon-Hee Kim, Donghyun Lee |