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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water and energy budgets of hurricanes: Case studies of Ivan and Katrina | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | Trenberth, Kevin E., Davis, Christopher A., Fasullo, John | |
| Human Contribution to the Lengthening of the Growing Season during 1950–99 | AMS Journal of Climate | Nikolaos Christidis, Peter A. Stott, and Simon Brown | |
| Attribution of observed surface humidity changes to human influence | Nature | Katharine M. Willett, Nathan P. Gillett, Philip D. Jones, Peter W. Thorne | |
| 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 | |
| Detection of human influence on twentieth-century precipitation trends | Nature | Xuebin Zhang, Francis W. Zwiers, Gabriele C. Hegerl, F. Hugo Lambert, Nathan P. Gillett, Susan Solomon, Peter A. Stott, Toru Nozawa | |
| Detection of human influence on a new, validated 1500-year temperature reconstruction | AMS Journal of Climate | Gabriele C. Hegerl, Thomas J. Crowley, Myles Allen, William T. Hyde, Henry N. Pollack, Jason Smerdon, and Eduardo Zorita | |
| 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 | |
| Southern Ocean warming due to human influence | Geophysical Research Letters | John C. Fyfe | |
| Multimodel Multisignal Climate Change Detection at Regional Scale | AMS Journal of Climate | Xuebin Zhang | |
| 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 | |
| Anthropogenic Warming of the Oceans: Observations and Model Results | AMS Journal of Climate | David W. Pierce and Tim P. Barnett | |
| Detection of changes in temperature extremes during the second half of the 20th century | Geophysical Research Letters | Christidis, Nikolaos, Stott, Peter A., Brown, Simon, Hegerl, Gabriele C., Caesar, John | |
| 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 | |
| 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 regional‐scale temperature changes to anthropogenic and natural causes | Geophysical Research Letters | Peter A. Stott | |
| Detection of human influence on sea-level pressure | Nature | Nathan P. Gillett, Francis W. Zwiers, Andrew J. Weaver, Peter A. Stott | |
| Causes of atmospheric temperature change 1960–2000: A combined attribution analysis | Geophysical Research Letters | Gareth S. Jones, Simon F. B. Tett, Peter A. Stott | |
| Toward Regional-Scale Climate Change Detection | AMS Journal of Climate | Francis W. Zwiers and Xuebin Zhang | |
| Estimation of natural and anthropogenic contributions to twentieth century temperature change | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | Simon F. B. Tett, Gareth S. Jones, Peter A. Stott, David C. Hill, John F. B. Mitchell, Myles R. Allen, William J. Ingram, Tim C. Johns, Colin E. Johnson, Andy Jones, David L. Roberts, David M. H. Sexton, Margaret J. Woodage | |
| Global ocean warming tied to anthropogenic forcing | Geophysical Research Letters | Reichert, Bernhard K.; Schnur, Reiner; Bengtsson, Lennart |
