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)
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
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
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
NCA 4: Climate Change Impacts in the United States (Volume I) U.S. Global Change Research Program Donald Wuebbles, David Fahey, and Kathleen Hibbard
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What We Know – The Reality, Risks, and Response To Climate Change American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Mario Molina, James McCarthy, Diana Wall, Richard Alley, Julia Cole, Sarah Das, Noah Diffenbaugh, Kerry Emanuel, Howard Frumkin, Katharine Hayhoe, Camille Parmesan, Marshall Shepherd
Mortality Displacement as a Function of Heat Event Strength in 7 US Cities American Journal of Epidemiology Saha, Michael V., Davis, Robert E., Hondula, David M.
Time-Course of Cause-Specific Hospital Admissions During Snowstorms: An Analysis of Electronic Medical Records From Major Hospitals in Boston, Massachusetts American Journal of Epidemiology Bobb, Jennifer F., Ho, Kalon K. L., Yeh, Robert W., Harrington, Lori, Zai, Adrian, Liao, Katherine P., Dominici, Francesca
Occupational heat‐related illness emergency department visits and inpatient hospitalizations in the southeast region, 2007–2011 American Journal of Industrial Medicine L. Harduar Morano, T.L. Bunn, M. Lackovic, A. Lavender, G.T.T. Dang, J.J. Chalmers, Y. Li, L. Zhang, D.D. Flammia
Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Children After Hurricane Katrina: Predicting the Need for Mental Health Services American Journal of Orthopsychiatry Howard J. Osofsky, Joy D. Osofsky, Mindy Kronenberg, Adrianne Brennan, Tonya Cross Hansel
Airway epithelial anion secretion and barrier function following exposure to fungal aeroallergens: Role of oxidative stress American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology Nathan A. Zaidman, Kelly E. O'Grady, Nandadevi Patil, Francesca Milavetz, Peter J Maniak, Hirohito Kita, Scott M. O'Grady
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
Interdecadal trend and ENSO-related interannual variability in Southern Hemisphere blocking American Meteorological Society Li Dong, Timothy J. Vogelsang, and Stephen J. Colucci
The Realization of Extreme Tornadic Storm Events under Future Anthropogenic Climate Change American Meteorological Society Robert J. Trapp and Kimberly A. Hoogewind
Fatalities in the United States from Atlantic Tropical Cyclones: New Data and Interpretation American Meteorological Society Edward N. Rappaport
Temporal and Spatial Variability of Great Lakes Ice Cover, 1973–2010 American Meteorological Society Jia Wang, Xuezhi Bai, Haoguo Hu, Anne Clites, Marie Colton, and Brent Lofgren
Seasonal Climate Variability and Change in the Pacific Northwest of the United States American Meteorological Society John T. Abatzoglou, David E. Rupp and Philip W. Mote
Expansion of the Southern Hemisphere Hadley Cell in Response to Greenhouse Gas Forcing American Meteorological Society H. Nguyen, C. Lucas, A. Evans, B. Timbal, and L. Hanson
Meteorological Characteristics and Overland Precipitation Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers Affecting the West Coast of North America Based on Eight Years of SSM/I Satellite Observations American Meteorological Society Paul J. Neiman, F. Martin Ralph, Gary A. Wick, Jessica D. Lundquist, Michael D. Dettinger
Anthropogenic Influence on Long Return Period Daily Temperature Extremes at Regional Scales American Meteorological Society Francis W. Zwiers, Xuebin Zhang and Yang Feng
On the Increased Frequency of Mediterranean Drought American Meteorological Society Martin Hoerling, Jon Eischeid, Judith Perlwitz, Xiaowei Quan, Tao Zhang, and Philip Pegion
Climatology and Changes of Extratropical Cyclone Activity: Comparison of ERA-40 with NCEP–NCAR Reanalysis for 1958–2001 American Meteorological Society Xiaolan L. Wang, Val R. Swail, and Francis W. Zwiers
Twenty-First-Century Snowfall and Snowpack Changes over the Southern California Mountains American Meteorological Society Fengpeng Sun, Alex Hall, Marla Schwartz, Daniel B.Walton, and Neil Berg
Assessing the Importance of Prominent Warm SST Anomalies over the Midlatitude North Pacific in Forcing Large-Scale Atmospheric Anomalies during 2011 Summer and Autumn American Meteorological Society Satoru Okajima, Hisashi Nakamura, Kazuaki Nishii, Takafumi Miyasaka, Akira Kuwano-Yoshida
Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective American Meteorological Society Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society