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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Attribution of anthropogenic influence on seasonal sea level pressure | Geophysical Research Letters | N. P. Gillett, P. A. Stott | |
Distinguishing Pronounced Droughts in the Southwestern United States: Seasonality and Effects of Warmer Temperatures | AMS Journal of Climate | Jeremy L. Weiss | |
Anthropogenic forcing dominates sea level rise since 1850 | Geophysical Research Letters | S. Jevrejeva, A. Grinsted, J. C. Moore | |
Incorporating model quality information in climate change detection and attribution studies | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | B. D. Santer, K. E. Taylor, P. J. Gleckler, C. Bonfils, T. P. Barnett, D. W. Pierce, T. M. L. Wigley, C. Mears, F. J. Wentz, W. Brüggemann, N. P. Gillett, S. A. Klein, S. Solomon, P. A. Stott, M. F. Wehner | |
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 | |
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 | |
Forced and Internal Twentieth-Century SST Trends in the North Atlantic | AMS Journal of Climate | Mingfang Ting, Yochanan Kushnir, Richard Seager, and Cuihua Li | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 Atlantic salinity changes | Geophysical Research Letters | Peter A. Stott, Rowan T. Sutton, Doug M. Smith | |
Human influence on Arctic sea ice detectable from early 1990s onwards | Geophysical Research Letters | Seung‐Ki Min, Xuebin Zhang, Francis W. Zwiers, Tom Agnew | |
Detection of external influence on trends of atmospheric storminess and northern oceans wave heights | Climate Dynamics | Xiaolan L. Wang, Val R. Swail, Francis W. Zwiers, Xuebin Zhang, Yang Feng | |
Attributing physical and biological impacts to anthropogenic climate change | Nature | Rosenzweig, C., D. Karoly, M. Vicarelli, P. Neofotis, Q. Wu, G. Casassa, A. Menzel, T.L. Root, N. Estrella, B. Seguin, P. Tryjanowski, C. Liu, S. Rawlins, and A. Imeson | |
Attribution of cyclogenesis region sea surface temperature change to anthropogenic influence | Geophysical Research Letters | N. P. Gillett, P. A. Stott, B. D. Santer | |
Human-induced arctic moistening | Science | Seung-Ki Min, Xuebin Zhang, Francis Zwiers | |
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 | |
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 | |
Human contribution to rapidly increasing frequency of very warm Northern Hemisphere summers | Journal of Geophysical Research | Gareth S. Jones, Peter A. Stott, and Nikolaos Christidis | |
Identification of external influences on temperatures in California | Climatic Change | Céline Bonfils, Philip B. Duffy, Benjamin D. Santer, Tom M. L. Wigley, David B. Lobell, Thomas J. Phillips, Charles Doutriaux |