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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Anthropogenic contribution to global occurrence of heavy-precipitation and high-temperature extremes | Nature Climate Change | E. M. Fischer, R. Knutti | |
Detecting regional anthropogenic trends in ocean acidification against natural variability | Nature Climate Change | T. Friedrich, A. Timmermann, A. Abe-Ouchi, N. R. Bates, M. O. Chikamoto, M. J. Church, J. E. Dore, D. K. Gledhill, M. González-Dávila, M. Heinemann, T. Ilyina, J. H. Jungclaus, E. McLeod, A. Mouchet, J. M. Santana-Casiano | |
Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale | Nature Climate Change | Sebastian Sippel, Nicolai Meinshausen, Erich M. Fischer, Enikő Székely, Reto Knutti | |
Increasing precipitation volatility in twenty-first-century California | Nature Climate Change | Daniel L. Swain, Baird Langenbrunner, J. David Neelin, Alex Hall | |
Increasing trends in regional heatwaves | Nature Communications | S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, S. C. Lewis | |
Detecting anthropogenic footprints in sea level rise | Nature Communications | Sönke Dangendorf, Marta Marcos, Alfred Müller, Eduardo Zorita, Riccardo Riva, Kevin Berk, Jürgen Jensen | |
Anthropogenic and natural warming inferred from changes in Earth’s energy balance | Nature Geoscience | Markus Huber and Reto Knutti | |
Incorporating Anthropogenic Influences into Fire Probability Models: Effects of Human Activity and Climate Change on Fire Activity in California | Plos One | Michael L. Mann, Enric Batllori, Max A. Moritz, Eric K. Waller, Peter Berck, Alan L. Flint, Lorraine E. Flint, Emmalee Dolfi | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Anthropogenic climate change is worsening North American pollen seasons | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | William R. L. Anderegg, John T. Abatzoglou, Leander D. L. Anderegg, Leonard Bielory, Patrick L. Kinney, and Lewis Ziska | |
Impact of climate change on New York City’s coastal flood hazard: Increasing flood heights from the preindustrial to 2300 CE | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Andra J. Garner, Michael E. Mann, Kerry A. Emanuel, Robert E. Kopp, Ning Ling, Richard B. Alley, Benjamin P. Horton, Robert M. DeContok, Jeffrey P. Donnelly, and David Pollard | |
Increased drought severity tracks warming in the United States’ largest river basin | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Justin Martin, Gregory Pederson, Connie Woodhouse, Edward Cook, Gregory McCabe, Kevin Anchukaitis, Erika Wise, Patrick Erger, Larry Dolan, Marketa McGuire, Subhrendu Gangopadhyay, Katherine Chase, Jeremy Littell, Stephen Gray, Scott St. George et al. | |
Assessing the present and future probability of Hurricane Harvey’s rainfall | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Kerry Emanuel | |
Human influence has intensified extreme precipitation in North America | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Megan C. Kirchmeier-Young and Xuebin Zhang | |
Projected Atlantic hurricane surge threat from rising temperatures | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Aslak Grinsted, John C. Moore, Svetlana Jevrejeva | |
Hurricane Sandy’s flood frequency increasing from year 1800 to 2100 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Ning Lin, Robert E. Kopp, Benjamin P. Horton, Jeffrey P. Donnelly | |
Identifying human influences on atmospheric temperature | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Benjamin D. Santer, Jeffrey F. Painter, Carl A. Mears, Charles Doutriaux, Peter Caldwell, Julie M. Arblaster, Philip J. Cameron-Smith, Nathan P. Gillett, Peter J. Gleckler, John Lanzante, Judith Perlwitz, Susan Solomon, Peter A. Stott, Karl E. Taylor et a | |
Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | John T. Abatzoglou and A. Park Williams |