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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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. | |
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 | |
Significant anthropogenic-induced changes of climate classes since 1950 | Nature | Duo Chan, Qigang Wu | |
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 | |
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 | |
Southern Ocean warming due to human influence | Geophysical Research Letters | John C. Fyfe | |
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 | |
Synoptic and Climate Attributions of the December 2015 Extreme Flooding in Missouri, USA | Water | Boniface Fosu, Simon Wang, and Kathleen Pegion | |
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 | |
Temperature impacts on the water year 2014 drought in California | Geophysical Research Letters | Shraddhanand Shukla, Mohammad Safeeq, Amir AghaKouchak, Kaiyu Guan, Chris Funk | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 economic costs of Hurricane Harvey attributable to climate change | Climatic Change | David J. Frame, Michael F. Wehner, Ilan Noy, Suzanne M. Rosier | |
The human influence on Hurricane Florence | Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences | Kevin Reed, Alyssa Stansfield, Michael Wehner, and Colin Zarzycki | |
The Role of Human Activity in the Recent Warming of Extremely Warm Daytime Temperatures | AMS Journal of Climate | Nikolaos Christidis, Peter A. Stott, and Simon J. Brown | |
The Roles of Climate Change and Climate Variability in the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season | Scientific Reports | Young-Kwon Lim, Siegfried D. Schubert, Robin Kovach, Andrea M. Molod, Steven Pawson | |
The twenty‐first century Colorado River hot drought and implications for the future | Water Resources Research | Bradley Udall, Jonathan Overpeck | |
Toward Regional-Scale Climate Change Detection | AMS Journal of Climate | Francis W. Zwiers and Xuebin Zhang | |
Towards the detection and attribution of an anthropogenic effect on climate | Climate Dynamics | Benjamin D. Santer, Karl E. Taylor, Tom M. L. Wigley, Joyce E. Penner, Philip D. Jones, Ulrich Cubasch |