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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Source | Date | Author(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A geological perspective on sea-level rise and its impacts along the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast | Earth's Future AGU Publication | Dec 5, 2013 | Kenneth G. Miller, Robert E. Kopp, Benjamin P. Horton, James V. Browning, Andrew C. Kemp |
| A global slowdown of tropical-cyclone translation speed | Nature | Jun 6, 2018 | James P. Kossin |
| A multiregion model evaluation and attribution study of historical changes in the area affected by temperature and precipitation extremes | AMS Journal of Climate | Nov 3, 2016 | Andrea J. Dittus and David J. Karoly |
| A new statistical approach to climate change detection and attribution | Climate Dynamics | Apr 6, 2016 | Aurélien Ribe, Francis W. Zwiers, Jean-Marc Azaïs, Philippe Naveau |
| A probabilistic quantification of the anthropogenic component of twentieth century global warming | Climate Dynamics | Nov 8, 2012 | T. M. L. Wigley, B. D. Santer |
| A search for human influences on the thermal structure of the atmosphere | Nature | Jul 4, 1996 | B. D. Santer, K. E. Taylor, T. M. L. Wigley, T. C. Johns, P. D. Jones, D. J. Karoly, J. F. B. Mitchell, A. H. Oort, J. E. Penner, V. Ramaswamy, M. D. Schwarzkopf, R. J. Stouffer, S. Tett |
| A stratospheric pathway linking a colder Siberia to Barents-Kara Sea sea ice loss | Science Advances | Jul 25, 2018 | Pengfei Zhang, Yutian Wu, Isla R. Simpson, Karen L. Smith, Xiangdong Zhang, Bithi De, Patrick Callaghan |
| Anatomy of an Extreme Event | AMS Journal of Climate | Oct 19, 2012 | Martin Hoerling, Arun Kumar, Randall Dole, John W. Nielsen-Gammon, Jon Eischeid, Judith Perlwitz, Xiao-Wei Quan, Tao Zhang, Philip Pegion, and Mingyue Chen |
| Anthropogenic and natural warming inferred from changes in Earth’s energy balance | Nature Geoscience | Dec 4, 2011 | Markus Huber and Reto Knutti |
| Anthropogenic climate change and heat effects on health | International Journal of Climatology | Apr 17, 2019 | Nikolaos Christidis, Dann Mitchell, Peter A. Stott |
| Anthropogenic climate change is worsening North American pollen seasons | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Feb 16, 2021 | William R. L. Anderegg, John T. Abatzoglou, Leander D. L. Anderegg, Leonard Bielory, Patrick L. Kinney, and Lewis Ziska |
| Anthropogenic contribution to global occurrence of heavy-precipitation and high-temperature extremes | Nature Climate Change | Apr 27, 2015 | E. M. Fischer, R. Knutti |
| Anthropogenic forcing dominates global mean sea-level rise since 1970 | Nature Climate Change | Apr 11, 2016 | Aimée B. A. Slangen, John A. Church, Cecile Agosta, Xavier Fettweis, Ben Marzeion, Kristin Richter |
| Anthropogenic forcing dominates sea level rise since 1850 | Geophysical Research Letters | Oct 28, 2009 | S. Jevrejeva, A. Grinsted, J. C. Moore |
| Anthropogenic Influence on Long Return Period Daily Temperature Extremes at Regional Scales | American Meteorological Society | Sep 22, 2010 | Francis W. Zwiers, Xuebin Zhang and Yang Feng |
| Anthropogenic influence on the changing likelihood of an exceptionally warm summer in Texas, 2011 | Geophysical Research Letters | Feb 12, 2015 | David E. Rupp, Sihan Li, Neil Massey, Sarah N. Sparrow, Philip W. Mote, Myles Allen |
| Anthropogenic influences on major tropical cyclone events | Nature | Nov 14, 2018 | Christina M. Patricola, Michael F. Wehner |
| Anthropogenic warming has increased drought risk in California | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Jan 30, 2015 | Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Daniel L. Swain, and Danielle Toum |
| Anthropogenic warming impacts on California snowpack during drought | Geophysical Research Letters | Mar 15, 2017 | Berg, Neil and Hall, Alex |
| Anthropogenic Warming Impacts on Today's Sierra Nevada Snowpack and Flood Risk | Geophysical Research Letters | Jun 15, 2018 | Xingying Huang, Alex D. Hall, Neil Berg |
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