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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detection of human influence on sea-level pressure | Nature | Nathan P. Gillett, Francis W. Zwiers, Andrew J. Weaver, Peter A. Stott | |
| Attribution of observed sea level pressure trends to greenhouse gas, aerosol, and ozone changes | Geophysical Research Letters | Nathan P. Gillett, John C. Fyfe, David E. Parker | |
| Deducing Multidecadal Anthropogenic Global Warming Trends Using Multiple Regression Analysis | AMS Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences | Jiansong Zhou and Ka-Kit Tung | |
| Rapid attribution of the August 2016 flood-inducing extreme precipitation in south Louisiana to climate change | World Weather Attribution, Hydrology and Earth Systems Science | Karin van der Wiel, Sarah B. Kapnick, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Kirien Whan, Sjoukje Philip, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Roop K. Singh, Julie Arrighi, and Heidi Cullen | |
| Unusually high temperatures at the North Pole, winter 2016 | World Weather Attribution | ||
| Trends in Weather Extremes | World Weather Attribution | Geert Jan van Oldenborgh | |
| Anthropogenic and natural warming inferred from changes in Earth’s energy balance | Nature Geoscience | Markus Huber and Reto Knutti | |
| Attribution of anthropogenic influence on seasonal sea level pressure | Geophysical Research Letters | N. P. Gillett, P. A. Stott | |
| A probabilistic quantification of the anthropogenic component of twentieth century global warming | Climate Dynamics | T. M. L. Wigley, B. D. Santer | |
| Causes of Robust Seasonal Land Precipitation Changes | AMS Journal of Climate | Debbie Polson and Gabriele C. Hegerl | |
| Fingerprints of changes in annual and seasonal precipitation from CMIP5 models over land and ocean | Geophysical Research Letters | Beena Balan Sarojini, Peter A. Stott, Emily Black, Debbie Polson | |
| Atlantic hurricane trends linked to climate change | Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union | Michael E. Mann and Kerry A. Emanuel | |
| Forced and Internal Twentieth-Century SST Trends in the North Atlantic | AMS Journal of Climate | Mingfang Ting, Yochanan Kushnir, Richard Seager, and Cuihua Li | |
| Has the magnitude of floods across the USA changed with global CO2 levels? | Hydrological Sciences Journal | R. M. Hirsch and K.R. Ryberg | |
| Compounding effects of warm sea surface temperature and reduced sea ice on the extreme circulation over the extratropical North Pacific and North America during the 2013–2014 boreal winter | Geophysical Research Letters | Ming‐Ying Lee, Chi‐Cherng Hong, Huang‐Hsiung Hsu | |
| Attribution of global glacier mass loss to anthropogenic and natural causes | Science | Ben Marzeion, J. Graham Cogley, Kristin Richter, David Parkes | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Human and natural influences on the changing thermal structure of the atmosphere | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Benjamin D. Santer, Jeffrey F. Painter, Céline Bonfils, Carl A. Mears, Susan Solomon, Tom M. L. Wigley, Peter J. Gleckler, Gavin A. Schmidt, Charles Doutriaux, Nathan P. Gillett, Karl E. Taylor, Peter W. Thorne, Frank J. Wentz | |
| 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 |
