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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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 | |
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 | |
Anthropogenic and natural warming inferred from changes in Earth’s energy balance | Nature Geoscience | Markus Huber and Reto Knutti | |
Detecting anthropogenic footprints in sea level rise | Nature Communications | Sönke Dangendorf, Marta Marcos, Alfred Müller, Eduardo Zorita, Riccardo Riva, Kevin Berk, Jürgen Jensen | |
Increasing trends in regional heatwaves | Nature Communications | S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, S. C. Lewis | |
Arctic warming hotspot in the northern Barents Sea linked to declining sea-ice import | Nature Climate Change | Sigrid Lind, Randi B. Ingvaldsen, Tore Furevik | |
Attribution of Arctic temperature change to greenhouse-gas and aerosol influences | Nature Climate Change | Mohammad Reza Najafi, Francis W. Zwiers, Nathan P. Gillett | |
Anthropogenic forcing dominates global mean sea-level rise since 1970 | Nature Climate Change | Aimée B. A. Slangen, John A. Church, Cecile Agosta, Xavier Fettweis, Ben Marzeion, Kristin Richter | |
Attribution of climate extreme events | Nature Climate Change | Kevin E. Trenberth, John T. Fasullo & Theodore G. Shepherd | |
California from drought to deluge | Nature Climate Change | S.-Y. Simon Wang, Jin-Ho Yoon, Emily Becker and Robert Gillies | |
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 | |
Human-induced greening of the northern extratropical land surface | Nature Climate Change | Jiafu Mao, Aurélien Ribes, Binyan Yan, Xiaoying Shi, Peter E. Thornton, Roland Séférian, Philippe Ciais, Ranga B. Myneni, Hervé Douville, Shilong Piao, Zaichun Zhu, Robert E. Dickinson, Yongjiu Dai, Daniel M. Ricciuto, Mingzhou Jin et al | |
Human influence on joint changes in temperature, rainfall and continental aridity | Nature Climate Change | Céline J. W. Bonfils, Benjamin D. Santer, John C. Fyfe, Kate Marvel, Thomas J. Phillips & Susan R. H. Zimmerman | |
Twentieth-century hydroclimate changes consistent with human influence | Nature | Kate Marvel, Benjamin I. Cook, Céline J. W. Bonfils, Paul J. Durack, Jason E. Smerdon, A. Park Williams | |
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 |