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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Assigning historic responsibility for extreme weather events | World Weather Attribution, Nature Climate Change | Friederike Otto, Ragnhild Skeie, Jan Fuglestvedt, Terje Bertsen, and Myles Allen | |
Rapid attribution of the August 2016 flood-inducing extreme precipitation in south Louisiana to climate change | World Weather Attribution, Hydrology and Earth Systems Science | Karin van der Wiel, Sarah B. Kapnick, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Kirien Whan, Sjoukje Philip, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Roop K. Singh, Julie Arrighi, and Heidi Cullen | |
Attribution of extreme rainfall from Hurricane Harvey, August 2017 | World Weather Attribution, Environmental Research Letters | Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Karin van der Wiel, Antonia Sebastian, Roop Singh, Julie Arrighi, Friederike Otto, Karsten Haustein, Sihan Li, Gabriel Vecchi and Heidi Cullen | |
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) | |
Heatwave in northern Europe, summer 2018 | World Weather Attribution | ||
Human contribution to record-breaking June 2019 heatwave in France | World Weather Attribution | ||
Trends in Weather Extremes | World Weather Attribution | Geert Jan van Oldenborgh | |
U.S. Heat, February 2017 | World Weather Attribution | Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Andrew King, Friederike Otto, Gabriel Vecchi, Claudia Tebaldi, and Heidi Cullen | |
Unusually high temperatures at the North Pole, winter 2016 | World Weather Attribution | ||
Record Hot Year, 2015 | World Weather Attribution | ||
Euro-Mediterranean Heat — Summer 2017 | World Weather Attribution | ||
Great Barrier Reef Bleaching, March 2016 | World Weather Attribution | ||
Somalia Drought, 2016 – 2017 | World Weather Attribution | Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Karin van der Wiel, Sjoukje Philip, Sarah Kew, Heidi Cullen, Kasturi Shah, Roop Singh, Maarten van Aalst, Friederike Otto, Sarah O’Keefe, and Joyce Kimutai | |
Rapid attribution of the extreme rainfall in Texas from Tropical Storm Imelda | World Weather Attribution | Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Karin van der Wiel, Sjoukje Philip & Sarah Kew | |
Kenya Drought, 2016 | World Weather Attribution | Peter Uhe, Sjoukje Philip, Sarah Kew, Kasturi Shah, Joyce Kimutai, Friederike Otto, Geert Jan Van Oldenborgh, Roop Singh, Julie Arrighi, Heidi Cullen | |
Climate change made UK heatwave at least 10 times more likely | World Weather Attribution | M. Zachariah, R. Vautard, D. Schumacher, M. Vahlberg , D. Heinrich, E. Raju, L. Thalheimer, J. Arrighi, R. Singh, S. Li, J. Sun, G. Vecchi, et al | |
European Heat, June 2017 | World Weather Attribution | ||
WMO expert team statement on Hurricane Harvey | World Meteorological Organization News | Knutson et al. | |
WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2016 | World Meteorological Organization (WMO) | ||
Un/natural Disasters: Communicating Linkages Between Extreme Events and Climate Change | World Meteorological Organization | Susan Joy Hassol, Simon Torok, Sophie Lewis, and Patrick Luganda |