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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Fatalities in the United States from Atlantic Tropical Cyclones: New Data and Interpretation American Meteorological Society Edward N. Rappaport
On the Increased Frequency of Mediterranean Drought American Meteorological Society Martin Hoerling, Jon Eischeid, Judith Perlwitz, Xiaowei Quan, Tao Zhang, and Philip Pegion
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
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
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
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
Hurricane Sandy inundation probabilities today and tomorrow American Meteorological Society William Sweet, Chris Zervas, Stephen Gill, and Joseph Park
Observed Climate–Snowpack Relationships in California and their Implications for the Future American Meteorological Society Sarah Kapnick and Alex Hall
Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective American Meteorological Society Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Trends in twentieth-century US snowfall using a quality-controlled dataset American Meteorological Society Kenneth E. Kunkel, Michael Palecki, Leslie Ensor, Kenneth G. Hubbard, David Robinson, Kelly Redmond, David Easterling
Effects of a Warming Climate on Daily Snowfall Events in the Northern Hemisphere American Meteorological Society James F. Danco, Anthony M. DeAngelis, Bryan K. Raney, and Anthony J. Broccoli
Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Air Temperature Variability: 1840–2007 American Meteorological Society Jason E. Box, Lei Yang, David H. Bromwich and Le-Sheng Bai
Increased Interannual Precipitation Extremes over California under Climate Change American Meteorological Society Neil Berg and Alex Hall
Trends in twentieth-century U.S. extreme snowfall seasons American Meteorological Society Kenneth E. Kunkel, Michael A. Palecki, Leslie Ensor, David Easterling, Kenneth G. Hubbard, David Robinson, Kelly Redmond
Effects of Rainfall on Vehicle Crashes in Six U.S. States American Meteorological Society Alan Black, Gabriele Villarini, and Thomas Mote
Contributions from California Coastal-Zone Surface Fluxes to Heavy Coastal Precipitation: A CALJET Case Study during the Strong El Niño of 1998 American Meteorological Society P. Ola G. Persson, P. J. Neiman, B. Walter, J-W. Bao and F. M. Ralph
A Climatology of Arabian Sea Cyclonic Storms American Meteorological Society Amato T. Evan & Suzana J. Camargo
On the Measurement of Heat Waves American Meteorological Society S. E. Perkins and L. V. Alexander