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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Human Influence on Winter Precipitation Trends (1921–2015) over North America and Eurasia Revealed by Dynamical Adjustment | Geophysical Research Letters | Mar 4, 2019 | Ruixia Guo, Clara Deser, Laurent Terray, Flavio Lehner |
| EEE 2017: Observations of the Rate and Acceleration of Global Mean Sea Level Change | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Dec 10, 2018 | R. S. Nerem and J. Fasullo |
| EEE 2017: Anthropogenic Contributions to the Intensity of the 2017 United States Northern Great Plains Drought | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Dec 10, 2018 | Andrew Hoell, Judith Perlwitz, Candida Dewes, Klaus Wolter, Imtiaz Rangwala, Xiao-Wei Quan, and Jon Eischeid |
| EEE 2017: Attribution of the 2017 Northern High Plains Drought | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Dec 10, 2018 | Hailan Wang, Siegfried D. Schubert, Randal D. Koster, and Yehui Chang |
| EEE 2017: December 2016: Linking The Lowest Arctic Sea-ice Extent On Record With The Lowest European Precipitation Event On Record | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Dec 10, 2018 | Juan C. Acosta Navarro, Pablo Ortega, Javier García-Serrano, Virginie Guemas, Etienne Tourigny, Rubén Cruz-García, François Massonnet, and Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes |
| Global Emergence of Anthropogenic Climate Change in Fire Weather Indices | Geophysical Research Letters | Nov 30, 2018 | John T. Abatzoglou, A. Park Williams, Renaud Barbero |
| Anthropogenic influences on major tropical cyclone events | Nature | Nov 14, 2018 | Christina M. Patricola, Michael F. Wehner |
| The Roles of Climate Change and Climate Variability in the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season | Scientific Reports | Nov 1, 2018 | Young-Kwon Lim, Siegfried D. Schubert, Robin Kovach, Andrea M. Molod, Steven Pawson |
| Climate of the weakly-forced yet high-impact convective storms throughout the Ohio River Valley and Mid-Atlantic United States | Climate Dynamics | Sep 28, 2018 | Binod Pokharel, S.-Y. Simon Wang, Jonathan Meyer, Robert Gillies, Yen-Heng Lin |
| The human influence on Hurricane Florence | Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences | Sep 12, 2018 | Kevin Reed, Alyssa Stansfield, Michael Wehner, and Colin Zarzycki |
| Marine heatwaves under global warming | Nature | Aug 15, 2018 | Thomas L. Frölicher, Erich M. Fischer, Nicolas Gruber |
| Attribution of Arctic Sea Ice Decline from 1953 to 2012 to Influences from Natural, Greenhouse Gas, and Anthropogenic Aerosol Forcing | Journal of Climate | Aug 13, 2018 | B.L. Mueller |
| 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 |
| Arctic warming hotspot in the northern Barents Sea linked to declining sea-ice import | Nature Climate Change | Jun 25, 2018 | Sigrid Lind, Randi B. Ingvaldsen, Tore Furevik |
| Quantifying statistical uncertainty in the attribution of human influence on severe weather | Weather and Climate Extremes | Jun 15, 2018 | Paciorek, Stone, and Wehner |
| 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 |
| Early 21st century anthropogenic changes in extremely hot days as simulated by the C20C+ detection and attribution multi-model ensemble | Weather and Climate Extremes | Jun 8, 2018 | Michael Wehner, Dáithí Stone, Hideo Shiogama, Piotr Wolskic, Andrew Ciavarella, Nikolaos Christidis, Harinarayan Krishnana |
| A global slowdown of tropical-cyclone translation speed | Nature | Jun 6, 2018 | James P. Kossin |
| Effect of Reduced Summer Cloud Shading on Evaporative Demand and Wildfire in Coastal Southern California | Geophysical Research Letters | May 24, 2018 | A. Park Williams, Pierre Gentine, Max A. Moritz, Dar A. Roberts, John T. Abatzoglou |
| Hurricane Harvey links to Ocean Heat Content and Climate Change Adaptation | Earth's Future | May 9, 2018 | Kevin E. Trenberth, Lijing Cheng, Peter Jacobs, Yongxin Zhang, John Fasullo |
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