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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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 | |
Models versus radiosondes in the free atmosphere: A new detection and attribution analysis of temperature | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | F. C. Lott, P. A. Stott, D. M. Mitchell, N. Christidis, N. P. Gillett, L. Haimberger, J. Perlwitz, P. W. Thorne | |
Model Assessment of Observed Precipitation Trends Over Land Regions: Detectable Human Influences and Possible Low Bias in Model Trends | AMS Journal of Climate | Thomas R. Knutson and Fanrong Zeng | |
Marine heatwaves under global warming | Nature | Thomas L. Frölicher, Erich M. Fischer, Nicolas Gruber | |
Marine heatwaves exacerbate climate change impacts for fisheries in the northeast Pacific | Scientific Reports | William W. L. Cheung & Thomas L. Frölicher | |
Isolating the anthropogenic component of Arctic warming | Geophysical Research Letters | Petr Chylek, Nicholas Hengartner, Glen Lesins, James D. Klett, Ole Humlum, Marcia Wyatt, Manvendra K. Dubey | |
Is There a Role for Human-Induced Climate Change in the Precipitation Decline that Drove the California Drought? | AMS Journal of Climate | Richard Seager, Naomi Henderson, Mark A. Cane, Haibo Liu, and Jennifer Nakamura | |
Internal variability versus anthropogenic forcing on sea level and its components | Surveys in Geophysics | Marta Marcos, Ben Marzeion, Sönke Dangendorf, Aimée B. A. Slangen, Hindumathi Palanisamy, Luciana Fenoglio-Marc | |
Influence of the Ocean and Greenhouse Gases on Severe Drought Likelihood in the Central United States in 2012 | Journal of Climate | David E. Rupp, Sihan Li, and Philip W. Mote | |
Influence of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Planetary Wave Resonance and Extreme Weather Events | Scientific Reports | Michael E. Mann, Stefan Rahmstorf, Kai Kornhuber, Byron A. Steinman, Sonya K. Miller, Dim Coumou | |
Increasing trends in regional heatwaves | Nature Communications | S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, S. C. Lewis | |
Increasing risk of great floods in a changing climate | Nature | P. C. D. Milly, R. T. Wetherald, K. A. Dunne & T. L. Delworth | |
Increasing precipitation volatility in twenty-first-century California | Nature Climate Change | Daniel L. Swain, Baird Langenbrunner, J. David Neelin, Alex Hall | |
Increased threat of tropical cyclones and coastal flooding to New York City during the anthropogenic era | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Andra J. Reed, Michael E. Mann, Kerry A. Emanuel, Ning Lin, Benjamin P. Horton, Andrew C. Kemp, and Jeffrey P. Donnelly | |
Increased record-breaking precipitation events under global warming | Climatic Change | Jascha Lehmann, Dim Coumou, Katja Frieler | |
Increased record-breaking precipitation events under global warming | Climatic Change | Jascha Lehmann, Dim Coumou, Katja Frieler | |
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. | |
Increase of extreme events in a warming world | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou | |
Incorporating model quality information in climate change detection and attribution studies | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | B. D. Santer, K. E. Taylor, P. J. Gleckler, C. Bonfils, T. P. Barnett, D. W. Pierce, T. M. L. Wigley, C. Mears, F. J. Wentz, W. Brüggemann, N. P. Gillett, S. A. Klein, S. Solomon, P. A. Stott, M. F. Wehner | |
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 |