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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Assessing the present and future probability of Hurricane Harvey’s rainfall | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Kerry Emanuel | |
Global urban population exposure to extreme heat | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Cascade Tuholske, Kelly Caylor, Chris Funk, Andrew Verdin, Stuart Sweeney, Kathryn Grace, Pete Peterson, and Tom Evans | |
Recent increases in tropical cyclone precipitation extremes over the US east coast | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Justin T. Maxwell, Joshua C. Bregy, Scott M. Robeson, Paul A. Knapp, Peter T. Soulé, and Valerie Trouet | |
Increasingly frequent wildfires linked to human-caused climate change, UCLA-led study finds | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Yizhou Zhuang, Alex Hall, Benjamin Santer, and Robert Dickinson | |
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 | |
Observed Arctic sea-ice loss directly follows anthropogenic CO2 emission | Science | Dirk Notz, Julienne Stroeve | |
Contributions of Anthropogenic and Natural Forcing to Recent Tropopause Height Changes | Science | B. D. Santer, M. F. Wehner, T. M. L. Wigley, R. Sausen, G. A. Meehl, K. E. Taylor, C. Ammann, J. Arblaster, W. M. Washington, J. S. Boyle, W. Brüggemann | |
Attribution of global glacier mass loss to anthropogenic and natural causes | Science | Ben Marzeion, J. Graham Cogley, Kristin Richter, David Parkes | |
Human-Induced Changes in the Hydrology of the Western United States | Science | Tim P. Barnett, David W. Pierce, Hugo G. Hidalgo, Celine Bonfils, Benjamin D. Santer, Tapash Das, Govindasamy Bala, Andrew W. Wood, Toru Nozawa, Arthur A. Mirin, Daniel R. Cayan, Michael D. Dettinger | |
Anthropogenic Warming of Earth's Climate System | Science | Sydney Levitus, John I. Antonov, Julian Wang, Thomas L. Delworth, Keith W. Dixon, Anthony J. Broccoli | |
Colorado River flow dwindles as warming-driven loss of reflective snow energizes evaporation | Science | P. C. D. Milly, K. A. Dunne | |
Detection of Anthropogenic Climate Change in the World's Oceans | Science | Tim P. Barnett, David W. Pierce, Reiner Schnur | |
Human-induced arctic moistening | Science | Seung-Ki Min, Xuebin Zhang, Francis Zwiers | |
Detection of a Human Influence on North American Climate | Science | David J. Karoly, Karl Braganza, Peter A. Stott, Julie M. Arblaster, Gerald A. Meehl, Anthony J. Broccoli, Keith W. Dixon | |
The 2021 western North America heat wave among the most extreme events ever recorded globally | Science Advances | Vikki Thompson, Alan T. Kennedy-Asser, Emily Vosper, Y. T. Eunice Lo, Chris Huntingford, Oliver Andrews, Matthew Collins, Gabrielle C. Hegerland, and Dann Mitchell | |
Human-caused Indo-Pacific warm pool expansion | Science Advances | Evan Weller, Seung-Ki Min, Wenju Cai, Francis W. Zwiers, Yeon-Hee Kim, Donghyun Lee | |
Climate change is increasing the risk of a California megaflood | Science Advances | Xingying Huang and Daniel L. Swain | |
A stratospheric pathway linking a colder Siberia to Barents-Kara Sea sea ice loss | Science Advances | Pengfei Zhang, Yutian Wu, Isla R. Simpson, Karen L. Smith, Xiangdong Zhang, Bithi De, Patrick Callaghan |