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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Towards the detection and attribution of an anthropogenic effect on climate | Climate Dynamics | Benjamin D. Santer, Karl E. Taylor, Tom M. L. Wigley, Joyce E. Penner, Philip D. Jones, Ulrich Cubasch | |
| Trends in Weather Extremes | World Weather Attribution | Geert Jan van Oldenborgh | |
| Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Assessment: Part I | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Thomas Knutson, Suzana J. Camargo, Johnny C. L. Chan, Kerry Emanuel, Chang-Hoi Ho, James Kossin, Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Masaki Satoh, Masato Sugi, Kevin Walsh, and Liguang Wu | |
| 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 | |
| U.S. Heat, February 2017 | World Weather Attribution | Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Andrew King, Friederike Otto, Gabriel Vecchi, Claudia Tebaldi, and Heidi Cullen | |
| Unnatural Coastal Floods: Sea level rise and the human fingerprint on U.S. floods since 1950 | Climate Central | Benjamin H. Strauss, Robert E. Kopp, William V. Sweet, Klaus Bittermann | |
| Unprecedented climate events: Historical changes, aspirational targets, and national commitments | Science Advances | Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Deepti Singh, and Justin S. Mankin | |
| Unusually high temperatures at the North Pole, winter 2016 | World Weather Attribution | ||
| Using present-day observations to detect when anthropogenic change forces surface ocean carbonate chemistry outside preindustrial bounds | Biogeosciences | Sutton, Adrienne J., Sabine, Christopher L., Feely, Richard A., Cai, Wei-Jun, Cronin, Meghan F., McPhaden, Michael J., Morell, Julio M., Newton, Jan A., Noh, Jae-Hoon, Ólafsdóttir, Sólveig R., Salisbury, Joseph E., Send, Uwe et al | |
| Water and energy budgets of hurricanes: Case studies of Ivan and Katrina | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | Trenberth, Kevin E., Davis, Christopher A., Fasullo, John | |
| Widespread persistent changes to temperature extremes occurred earlier than predicted | Scientific Reports | Chao Li, Yuanyuan Fang, Ken Caldeira, Xuebin Zhang, Noah S. Diffenbaugh and Anna M. Michalak |
