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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Weakening of the stratospheric polar vortex by Arctic sea-ice loss | Nature Communications | Baek-Min Kim, Seok-Woo Son, Seung-Ki Min, Jee-Hoon Jeong, Seong-Joong Kim, Xiangdong Zhang, Taehyoun Shim, Jin-Ho Yoon | |
Weakening of tropical Pacific atmospheric circulation due to anthropogenic forcing | Nature | Gabriel A. Vecchi, Brian J. Soden, Andrew T. Wittenberg, Isaac M. Held, Ants Leetmaa, Matthew J. Harrison | |
Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate | The U.S. Climate Change Science Program Preface | Thomas R. Karl, Gerald A. Meehl, Christopher D. Miller, Susan J. Hassol, Anne M. Waple, and William L. Murray | |
Western Pine Beetle Populations in Arizona and California Differ in the Composition of Their Aggregation Pheromones | Journal of Chemical Ecology | Pureswaran DS, Hofstetter RW, Sullivan BT, Grady AM, Brownie C | |
Western Wildfires: A Fiery Future | Climate Central | Alyson Kenward, PhD, Todd Sanford, PhD, James Bronzan | |
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 | |
Wheat yield loss attributable to heat waves, drought and water excess at the global, national and subnational scales | Environmental Research Letters | M Zampieri, A Ceglar, F Dentener and A Toreti | |
Whither the 100th Meridian? The Once and Future Physical and Human Geography of America’s Arid–Humid Divide. Part II: The Meridian Moves East | Earth Interactions | Richard Seager, Jamie Feldman, Nathan Lis, Mingfang Ting, Alton P. Williams, Jennifer Nakamura, Haibo Liu and Naomi Henderson | |
Widespread Biological Response to Rapid Warming on the Antarctic Peninsula | Current Biology | Matthew J. Amesbury, Thomas P. Roland, Jessica Royles, Dominic A. Hodgson, Peter Convey, Howard Griffiths, Dan J. Charman | |
Widespread movement of meltwater onto and across Antarctic ice shelves | Nature | Jonathan Kingslake, Jeremy C. Ely, Indrani Das & Robin E. Bell | |
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 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. |