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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EEE 2013: The extraordinary California drought of 2013/2014: character, context, and the role of climate change | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Daniel L. Swain, Michael Tsiang, Matz Haugen, Deepti Singh, Allison Charland, Bala Rajaratnam, and Noah S. Diffenbaug | |
EEE 2016: The High Latitude Marine Heat Wave of 2016 and Its Impacts on Alaska | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | John E. Walsh, Richard L. Thoman, Uma S. Bhatt, Peter A. Bieniek, Brian Brettschneider, Michael Brubaker, Seth Danielson, Rick Lader, Florence Fetterer, Kris Holderied, Katrin Iken, Andy Mahoney, Molly McCammon, and James Partain | |
EEE 2018: The Record Low Bering Sea Ice Extent in 2018 – Context, Impacts, and an Assessment of the Role of Anthropogenic Climate Change | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Thoman R. T., Bhatt, U. S., Bieniek, P. A., Brettschneider, B. R., Brubaker, M., et al . . . Walsh, J. E. | |
EEE 2016: Anthropogenic and Natural Influences on Record 2016 Marine Heat waves | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Eric C. J. Oliver, Sarah E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Neil J. Holbrook, and Nathaniel L. Bindoff | |
EEE 2018: Extreme Hail Storms and Climate Change: Foretelling the Future In Tiny, Turbulent Crystal Balls? | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Kelly Mahoney | |
EEE 2016: Anthropogenic Forcings and Associated Changes in Fire Risk in Western North America and Australia During 2015/16 | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Simon F. B. Tett, Alexander Falk, Megan Rogers, Fiona Spuler, Calum Turner, Joshua Wainwright, Oscar Dimdore-Miles, Sam Knight, Nicolas Freychet, Michael J. Mineter, and Caroline E. R. Lehmann | |
EEE 2018: Quantifying Human-Induced Temperature Impacts on the 2018 United States Four Corners Hydrologic and Agro-Pastoral Drought | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Williams, E., Funk, C., Shukla, S., and McEvoy, D. | |
EEE 2015: Multimodel Assessment of Anthropogenic Influence on Record Global and Regional Warmth During 2015 | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Jonghun Kam, Thomas R. Knutson, Fanrong Zeng, and Andrew T. Wittenberg | |
EEE 2018: Anthropogenic Impacts on the Exceptional Precipitation of 2018 in the Mid-Atlantic United States | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Winter, J. H., Huang, H., Osterberg, E. C., and Mankin, J. S. | |
EEE 2015: An Assessment of the Role of Anthropogenic Climate Change in the Alaska Fire Season of 2015 | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | James L. Partain Jr., Sharon Alden, Uma S. Bhatt, Peter A. Bieniek, Brian R. Brettschneider, Rick T. Lader, Peter Q. Olsson, T. Scott Rupp, Heidi Strader, Richard L. Thoman Jr., John E. Walsh, Alison D. York, and Robert H. Ziel | |
Unnatural Coastal Floods: Sea level rise and the human fingerprint on U.S. floods since 1950 | Climate Central | Benjamin H. Strauss, Robert E. Kopp, William V. Sweet, Klaus Bittermann | |
Climate of the weakly-forced yet high-impact convective storms throughout the Ohio River Valley and Mid-Atlantic United States | Climate Dynamics | Binod Pokharel, S.-Y. Simon Wang, Jonathan Meyer, Robert Gillies, Yen-Heng Lin | |
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 | |
Multi-fingerprint detection and attribution analysis of greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas-plus-aerosol and solar forced climate change | Climate Dynamics | G. C. Hegerl, K. Hasselmann, U. Cubasch, J. F. B. Mitchell, E. Roeckner, R. Voss, J. Waszkewitz | |
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 | |
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 | |
Recent intense hurricane response to global climate change | Climate Dynamics | Greg Holland, Cindy L. Bruyère | |
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 | |
A new statistical approach to climate change detection and attribution | Climate Dynamics | Aurélien Ribe, Francis W. Zwiers, Jean-Marc Azaïs, Philippe Naveau | |
Attribution of twentieth century temperature change to natural and anthropogenic causes | Climate Dynamics | P. A. Stott, S. F. B. Tett, G. S. Jones, M. R. Allen, W. J. Ingram, J. F. B. Mitchell |