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) |
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Widespread persistent changes to temperature extremes occurred earlier than predicted | Scientific Reports | Chao Li, Yuanyuan Fang, Ken Caldeira, Xuebin Zhang, Noah S. Diffenbaugh and Anna M. Michalak | |
Widespread severe wildfires under climate change lead to increased forest homogeneity in dry mixed‐conifer forests | Ecosphere | Brooke A. Cassell, Robert M. Scheller, Melissa S. Lucash, Matthew D. Hurteau, E. Louise Loudermilk | |
Widespread shifts in the coastal biota of northern California during the 2014–2016 marine heatwaves | Scientific Reports | Eric Sanford, Jacqueline L. Sones, Marisol García-Reyes, Jeffrey H. R. Goddard, John L. Largier | |
Widespread, rapid grounding line retreat of Pine Island, Thwaites, Smith, and Kohler glaciers, West Antarctica, from 1992 to 2011 | Geophysical Research Letters | Rignot, E., Mouginot, J., Morlighem, M., Seroussi, H., Scheuchl, B. | |
Wildfire response to changing daily temperature extremes in California’s Sierra Nevada | Science Advances | Aurora A. Gutierrez, Stijn Hantson, Baird Langenbrunner, Bin Chen, Yufang Jin, Michael L. Goulden, and James T. Randerson | |
Wildfire smoke and health impacts: A closer look at fire attributes and their marginal effects | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | K. Moeltnera, M.-K. Kimb, E. Zhu, W. Yangd | |
Wildfire smoke exposure under climate change: impact on respiratory health of affected communitie | Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine | Reid CE and Maestas MM | |
Wildfires Dynamics in Siberian Larch Forests | Forests | Evgenii I. Ponomarev, Viacheslav I. Kharuk, and Kenneth J. Ranson | |
Wildlife in a Warming World | National Wildlife Federation | ||
Will Global Warming Make Hurricane Forecasting More Difficult? | American Meteorological Society | Kerry Emanuel | |
Wind speed trends over the contiguous United States | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | Pryor, S. C., Barthelmie, R. J., Young, D. T., Takle, E. S., Arritt, R. W., Flory, D., Gutowski, W. J., Nunes, A., Roads, J. | |
Winter 2015/16: A Turning Point in ENSO-Based Seasonal Forecasts | Oceanography | Judah Cohen, Karl Pfeiffer , Jennifer Francis | |
Winter climate change in plant–soil systems: summary of recent findings and future perspectives | Ecological Research | Kobayashi Makoto, Takuya Kajimoto, Lina Koyama, Gaku Kudo, Hideaki Shibata, Yosuke Yanai, J. H. C. Cornelissen | |
Winter in North America Is Cold — Dec. 2017-Jan. 2018 | World Weather Attribution | Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Hylke de Vries (KNMI), Gabriel Vecchi (Princeton University), Friederike Otto (University of Oxford), Claudia Tebaldi (Climate Central and NCAR) | |
Winter Snow Level Rise in the Northern Sierra Nevada from 2008 to 2017 | Water | Benjamin J. Hatchett, Orcid, Britta Daudert, Christopher B. Garner, Nina S. Oakley, Aaron E. Putnam , and Allen B. White | |
Winter storms drive rapid phenotypic, regulatory, and genomic shifts in the green anole lizard | Science | Shane C. Campbell-Staton, Zachary A. Cheviron, Nicholas Rochette, Julian Catchen, Jonathan B. Losos, Scott V. Edwards | |
Winter ticks on moose and other ungulates: factors influencing their population size | Alces | Samuel, W. M., & Welch, Dwight A. | |
Winter warming in West Antarctica caused by central tropical Pacific warming | Nature Geoscience | Qinghua Ding, Eric J. Steig, David S. Battisti, Marcel Küttel | |
WMO expert team statement on Hurricane Harvey | World Meteorological Organization News | Knutson et al. | |
WMO Presentation: Foehn jets and their implications for the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica | Elvidge |