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)
NCA 4: Climate Change Impacts in the United States (Volume I) U.S. Global Change Research Program Donald Wuebbles, David Fahey, and Kathleen Hibbard
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
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.)
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
Title Source Date Author(s)
Spring Climate Trends Changing in the Northeast USDA Blog Dave Hollinger, Director, USDA Northeast Climate Hub
Reclamation: Managing Water in the West: Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers Basin Study USBR U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation
Phenology as a bio-indicator of climate change impacts on people and ecosystems: towards an integrated national assessment approach USA-NPN Technical Report Series 2012 USA National Phenology Network
Climate change and allergic disease US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health Shea KM, Truckner RT, Weber RW, Peden DB
Vermont Climate Assessment 2021 University of Vermont Gillian Galford et al.
New observations of Arctic sea ice from satellite radar altimetry University College London Tilling, RL
Status of Coral Reefs of the World 2020 United Nations Environment Programme ICRI, GCRMN, Australia Institute of Marine Science,
Playing with Fire: How Climate Change and Development Patterns Are  Contributing to the Soaring Costs of Western Wildfires Union of Concerned Scientists Rachel Cleetus and Kranti Mulik
Inventory of Shared Water Resources in Western Asia UN-ESCWA United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)
The heatwave in North India and Pakistan in April-May 2022 UK Met Office Nikolaos Christidis
Emerging stress and relative resiliency of Giant Sequoia groves experiencing multi-year dry periods in a warming climate UC Merced Su, Y; Bales, RC; Ma, Q; Nydick, K; Ray, R; Li, W; Guo, Q
NCA 3: Climate Change Impacts in the United States U.S. Global Change Research Program Melillo, Jerry M., Terese (T.C.) Richmond, and Gary W. Yohe, Eds.
The Fifth U.S. National Climate Assessment U.S. Global Change Research Program Crimmins, A.R., C.W. Avery, D.R. Easterling, K.E. Kunkel, B.C. Stewart, and T.K. Maycock, Eds.
NCA 4: Climate Change Impacts in the United States (Volume I) U.S. Global Change Research Program Donald Wuebbles, David Fahey, and Kathleen Hibbard
NCA 4: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States (Volume II) U.S. Global Change Research Program Reidmiller, D.R., C.W. Avery, D.R. Easterling, K.E. Kunkel, K.L.M. Lewis, T.K. Maycock, and B.C. Stewart (eds.)
Preliminary peak stage and streamflow data at selected USGS streamgaging stations for the South Carolina flood of October 2015 U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report Feaster, T.D., Shelton, J.M., and Robbins, J.C.
Baseline and projected future carbon storage and greenhouse-gas fluxes in ecosystems of Alaska U.S. Geological Survey Zhiliang Zhu and A. David McGuire eds.
Reclamation Managing Water in the West: Interim Report No. 1, Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study, Status Report U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study Study Team
Trends in meteorological and agricultural droughts in Iran Theoretical and Applied Climatology S. Golian, O. Mazdiyasni, A. AghaKouchak
Climate-change effects on extreme precipitation in central Europe: uncertainties of scenarios based on regional climate models Theoretical and Applied Climatology Jan Kyselý, Romana Beranová