Science Sources

Search the database below for peer-reviewed studies and organizational reports documenting climate change trends. (Note: The database does not include studies on projected, or future change.) For studies that specifically identify the fingerprint of climate change on observed trends and events, visit Science Sources: Detection and Attribution.

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Title Source Date Author(s)
Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale Nature Climate Change Sebastian Sippel, Nicolai Meinshausen, Erich M. Fischer, Enikő Székely, Reto Knutti
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
NCA 4: Climate Change Impacts in the United States (Volume I) U.S. Global Change Research Program Donald Wuebbles, David Fahey, and Kathleen Hibbard
IPCC AR5 WGI: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis Cambridge University Press Stocker, T.F., D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, M. Tignor, S.K. Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex and P.M. Midgley (eds.)
Attribution of climate extreme events Nature Climate Change Kevin E. Trenberth, John T. Fasullo & Theodore G. Shepherd
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Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability Cambridge University Press Field, C.B., V.R. Barros, D.J. Dokken, K.J. Mach, M.D. Mastrandrea, T.E. Bilir, M. Chatterjee, K.L. Ebi, Y.O. Estrada, R.C. Genova, B. Girma, E.S. Kissel, A.N. Levy, S. MacCracken, P.R. Mastrandrea, and L.L.White (eds.)
Playing hide and seek with El Nino Nature Climate Change M. J. McPhaden
NCA 3: Climate Change Impacts in the United States U.S. Global Change Research Program Melillo, Jerry M., Terese (T.C.) Richmond, and Gary W. Yohe, Eds.
Climate Change in the Midwest: A Synthesis Report for the National Climate Assessment Island Press Julie A. Winkler, Jeffrey A. Andresen, Jerry L. Hatfield, David Bidwell, Daniel Brown (eds.)
Robust twenty-first-century projections of El Niño and related precipitation variability Nature Scott Power, François Delage, Christine Chung, Greg Kociuba & Kevin Keay
The Impact of Climate Change and Variability on Heavy Precipitation, Floods, and Droughts Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences Kevin E. Trenberth
IPCC AR5 WGI: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis Cambridge University Press Stocker, T.F., D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, M. Tignor, S.K. Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex and P.M. Midgley (eds.)
Land Subsidence from Groundwater Use in California California Water Foundation James W. Borchers, Vicki Kretsinger Grabert, Michael Carpenter, Barbara Dalgish, Debra Cannon
Groundwater depletion during drought threatens future water security of the Colorado River Basin Geophysical Research Letters Castle, Stephanie L., Thomas, Brian F., Reager, John T., Rodell, Matthew, Swenson, Sean C., Famiglietti, James S.
The worst North American drought year of the last millennium: 1934 Geophysical Research Letters Cook, Benjamin I., Seager, Richard, Smerdon, Jason E.
Precipitation Shifts over Western North America as a Result of Declining Arctic Sea Ice Cover: The Coupled System Response American Meteorological Society Jacob O. Sewall
EEE 2013: The extraordinary California drought of 2013/2014: character, context, and the role of climate change Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Daniel L. Swain, Michael Tsiang, Matz Haugen, Deepti Singh, Allison Charland, Bala Rajaratnam, and Noah S. Diffenbaug
How unusual is the 2012–2014 California drought? Geophysical Research Letters Griffin, Daniel, Anchukaitis, Kevin J.
Anthropogenic warming has increased drought risk in California Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Daniel L. Swain, and Danielle Toum
Global warming and changes in risk of concurrent climate extremes: Insights from the 2014 California drought Geophysical Research Letters AghaKouchak, Amir, Cheng, Linyin, Mazdiyasni, Omid, Farahmand, Alireza
Framing the way to relate climate extremes to climate change Climatic Change Kevin E. Trenberth
Probable causes of the abnormal ridge accompanying the 2013–2014 California drought: ENSO precursor and anthropogenic warming footprint Geophysical Research Letters Wang, S.‐Y., Hipps, Lawrence, Gillies, Robert R, Yoon, Jin‐Ho
The increasing intensity of the strongest tropical cyclones Nature James B. Elsner, James P. Kossin, Thomas H. Jagger
Projected increase in tropical cyclones near Hawaii Nature Climate Change Hiroyuki Murakami, Bin Wang, Tim Li, Akio Kitoh
Evidence for the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet divide for 1.4 million years Nature Communications Andrew S. Hein, John Woodward, Shasta M. Marrero, Stuart A. Dunning, Eric J. Steig, Stewart P. H. T. Freeman, Finlay M. Stuart, Kate Winter, Matthew J. Westoby, David E. Sugden