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.
| Title | Source | Date | Author(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annual and seasonal tornado trends in the contiguous United States and its regions | International Journal of Climatology | Todd W. Moore | |
| Annual and seasonal tornado trends in the contiguous United States and its regions | International Journal of Climatology | Todd W. Moore | |
| Increasingly Powerful Tornadoes in the United States | Geophysical Research Letters | James B. Elsner, Tyler Fricker, and Zoe Schroder | |
| Flash Droughts: A Review and Assessment of the Challenges Imposed by Rapid-Onset Droughts in the United States | American Meteorological Society | Jason A. Otkin, Mark Svoboda, Eric D. Hunt, Trent W. Ford, Martha C. Anderson, Christopher Hain, and Jeffrey B. Basara | |
| Assessing the climate-scale variability of atmospheric rivers affecting western North America | Geophysical Research Letters | Alexander Gershunov, Tamara Shulgina, F. Martin Ralph, David A. Lavers, Jonathan J. Rutz | |
| Human influence has intensified extreme precipitation in North America | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Megan C. Kirchmeier-Young and Xuebin Zhang | |
| Unprecedented climate events: Historical changes, aspirational targets, and national commitments | Science Advances | Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Deepti Singh, and Justin S. Mankin | |
| Precipitation Extremes: Trends and Relationships with Average Precipitation and Precipitable Water in the Contiguous United States | American Meteorological Society | Kenneth E. Kunkel, Thomas R. Karl, Michael F. Squires, Xungang Yin, Steve T. Stegall, and David R. Easterling | |
| Cold waves are getting milder in the northern midlatitudes | Environmental Research Letters | Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Eli Mitchell-Larson, Gabriel A Vecchi, Hylke de Vries, Robert Vautard and Friederike Otto | |
| Diverse Characteristics of U.S. Summer Heat Waves | American Meteorological Society | Bradfield Lyon and Anthony G. Barnston | |
| Spatiotemporal Evolution of Heat Wave Severity and Coverage Across the United States | Geophysical Research Letters | David Keellings and Hamid Moradkhani | |
| The Effects of Historical Housing Policies on Resident Exposure to Intra-Urban Heat: A Study of 108 US Urban Areas | MDPI | Jeremy S. Hoffman, Vivek Shandas, and Nicholas Pendleton | |
| The Shifting Scales of Western U.S. Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers Under Climate Change | Geophysical Research Letters | Alan M. Rhoades, Andrew D. Jones, Abhishekh Srivastava, Huanping Huang, Travis A. O'Brien, Christina M. Patricola, Paul A. Ullrich, Michael Wehner, Yang Zhou | |
| Marine heatwaves exacerbate climate change impacts for fisheries in the northeast Pacific | Scientific Reports | William W. L. Cheung & Thomas L. Frölicher | |
| Increased drought severity tracks warming in the United States’ largest river basin | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Justin Martin, Gregory Pederson, Connie Woodhouse, Edward Cook, Gregory McCabe, Kevin Anchukaitis, Erika Wise, Patrick Erger, Larry Dolan, Marketa McGuire, Subhrendu Gangopadhyay, Katherine Chase, Jeremy Littell, Stephen Gray, Scott St. George et al. | |
| Global snow drought hot spots and characteristics | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Huning and AghaKouchak | |
| Human influence on joint changes in temperature, rainfall and continental aridity | Nature Climate Change | Céline J. W. Bonfils, Benjamin D. Santer, John C. Fyfe, Kate Marvel, Thomas J. Phillips & Susan R. H. Zimmerman | |
| Future Warming and Intensification of Precipitation Extremes: A “Double Whammy” Leading to Increasing Flood Risk in California | Xingying Huang, Samantha Stevenson, and Alex D. Hall | ||
| Anomalously weak Labrador Sea convection and Atlantic overturning during the past 150 years | Nature | David J. R. Thornalley, Delia W. Oppo, Pablo Ortega, Jon I. Robson, Chris M. Brierley, Renee Davis, Ian R. Hall, Paola Moffa-Sanchez, Neil L. Rose, Peter T. Spooner, Igor Yashayaev & Lloyd D. Keigwin | |
| Observed fingerprint of a weakening Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation | Nature | L. Caesar, S. Rahmstorf, A. Robinson, G. Feulner & V. Saba |
