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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Detection and attribution of Atlantic salinity changes | Geophysical Research Letters | Peter A. Stott, Rowan T. Sutton, Doug M. Smith | |
Attribution of Declining Western U.S. Snowpack to Human Effects | AMS Journal of Climate | David W. Pierce, Tim P. Barnett, Hugo G. Hidalgo, Tapash Das, Céline Bonfils, Benjamin D. Santer, Govindasamy Bala, Michael D. Dettinger, Daniel R. Cayan, Art Mirin, Andrew W. Wood, and Toru Nozawa | |
Detection and attribution of temperature changes in the mountainous western United States | AMS Journal of Climate | Céline Bonfils, Benjamin D. Santer, David W. Pierce, Hugo G. Hidalgo, Govindasamy Bala, Tapash Das, Tim P. Barnett, Daniel R. Cayan, Charles Doutriaux, Andrew W. Wood, Art Mirin, and Toru Nozawa | |
Structure and Detectability of Trends in Hydrological Measures over the Western United States | Journal of Hydrometeorology | T. Das, H. G. Hidalgo, M. D. Dettinger, D. R. Cayan, D. W. Pierce, C. Bonfils, T. P. Barnett, G. Bala and A. Mirin | |
Forced and Internal Twentieth-Century SST Trends in the North Atlantic | AMS Journal of Climate | Mingfang Ting, Yochanan Kushnir, Richard Seager, and Cuihua Li | |
Probabilistic estimates of recent changes in temperature: a multi-scale attribution analysis | Climate Dynamics | Nikolaos Christidis, Peter A. Stott, Francis W. Zwiers, Hideo Shiogama, Toru Nozawa | |
Detection and Attribution of Streamflow Timing Changes to Climate Change in the Western United States | AMS Journal of Climate | H. G. Hidalgo, T. Das, M. D. Dettinger, D. R. Cayan, D. W. Pierce, T. P. Barnett, G. Bala, A. Mirin, A. W. Wood, C. Bonfils, B. D. Santer, and T. Nozawa | |
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 | |
Anthropogenic forcing dominates sea level rise since 1850 | Geophysical Research Letters | S. Jevrejeva, A. Grinsted, J. C. Moore | |
Distinguishing Pronounced Droughts in the Southwestern United States: Seasonality and Effects of Warmer Temperatures | AMS Journal of Climate | Jeremy L. Weiss | |
Attribution of anthropogenic influence on seasonal sea level pressure | Geophysical Research Letters | N. P. Gillett, P. A. Stott | |
Anthropogenic Influence on Long Return Period Daily Temperature Extremes at Regional Scales | American Meteorological Society | Francis W. Zwiers, Xuebin Zhang and Yang Feng | |
Single‐step attribution of increasing frequencies of very warm regional temperatures to human influence | Atmospheric Science Letters | Peter A. Stott, Gareth S. Jones, Nikolaos Christidis, Francis W. Zwiers, Gabriele Hegerl, Hideo Shiogama | |
Human contribution to more-intense precipitation extremes | Nature | Seung-Ki Min, Xuebin Zhang, Francis W. Zwiers, Gabriele C. Hegerl | |
The Role of Human Activity in the Recent Warming of Extremely Warm Daytime Temperatures | AMS Journal of Climate | Nikolaos Christidis, Peter A. Stott, and Simon J. Brown | |
Atlantic hurricane trends linked to climate change | Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union | Michael E. Mann and Kerry A. Emanuel | |
Detectable regional changes in the number of warm nights | Geophysical Research Letters | Morak, S., Hegerl, G. C., Kenyon, J. | |
The contribution of anthropogenic forcings to regional changes in temperature during the last decade | Climate Dynamics | Nikolaos Christidis, Peter A. Stott, Francis W. Zwiers, Hideo Shiogama, Toru Nozawa | |
Increase of extreme events in a warming world | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou | |
Has the magnitude of floods across the USA changed with global CO2 levels? | Hydrological Sciences Journal | R. M. Hirsch and K.R. Ryberg |