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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extreme Runoff Generation From Atmospheric River Driven Snowmelt During the 2017 Oroville Dam Spillways Incident | Geophysical Research Letters | Brian Henn, Keith N. Musselman, Leanne Lestak, F. Martin Ralph, Noah P. Molotch | |
| Human influence on joint changes in temperature, rainfall and continental aridity | Nature Climate Change | Céline J. W. Bonfils, Benjamin D. Santer, John C. Fyfe, Kate Marvel, Thomas J. Phillips & Susan R. H. Zimmerman | |
| Increasing trends in regional heatwaves | Nature Communications | S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, S. C. Lewis | |
| Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region | Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India | Editors: Krishnan Raghavan, Sanjay Jayanarayanan, Chellappan Gnanaseelan, Milind Mujumdar, Ashwini Kulkarni, and Supriyo Chakraborty | |
| Heat-Related Deaths — United States, 2004–2018 | MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report | Ambarish Vaidyanathan, Josephine Malilay, Paul Schramm, Shubhayu Saha | |
| Greater flood risks in response to slowdown of tropical cyclones over the coast of China | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Yangchen Lai, Jianfeng Li, Xihui Gu, Yongqin David Chen, Dongdong Kong, Thian Yew Gan, Maofeng Liu, Qingquan Li, Guofeng Wu | |
| Human influence has intensified extreme precipitation in North America | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Megan C. Kirchmeier-Young and Xuebin Zhang | |
| Increased drought severity tracks warming in the United States’ largest river basin | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Justin Martin, Gregory Pederson, Connie Woodhouse, Edward Cook, Gregory McCabe, Kevin Anchukaitis, Erika Wise, Patrick Erger, Larry Dolan, Marketa McGuire, Subhrendu Gangopadhyay, Katherine Chase, Jeremy Littell, Stephen Gray, Scott St. George et al. | |
| Global increase in major tropical cyclone exceedance probability over the past four decades | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | James P. Kossin, Kenneth R. Knapp, Timothy L. Olander, Christopher S. Velden | |
| Cyclone Fani: The tug-of-war between regional warming and anthropogenic aerosol effects | Environmental Research Letters | Lin Zhao, S.-Y. Simon Wang, Emily Becker, Jin-Ho Yoon, Avik Mukherjee | |
| The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance | Science Advances | Colin Raymond, Tom Matthews,and Radley M. Horton | |
| Detected climatic change in global distribution of tropical cyclones | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Hiroyuki Murakami, Thomas L. Delworth, William F. Cooke, Ming Zhao, Baoqiang Xiang, Pang-Chi Hsu | |
| Spatiotemporal Evolution of Heat Wave Severity and Coverage Across the United States | Geophysical Research Letters | David Keellings and Hamid Moradkhani | |
| Tropical cyclone motion in a changing climate | Science Advances | Gan Zhang, Hiroyuki Murakami, Thomas R. Knutson, Ryo Mizuta, Kohei Yoshida | |
| Marine heatwaves exacerbate climate change impacts for fisheries in the northeast Pacific | Scientific Reports | William W. L. Cheung & Thomas L. Frölicher | |
| Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought | Science | A. Park Williams, Edward R. Cook, Jason E. Smerdon, Benjamin I. Cook, John T. Abatzoglou, Kasey Bolles, Seung H. Baek, Andrew M. Badger, Ben Livneh | |
| The economic costs of Hurricane Harvey attributable to climate change | Climatic Change | David J. Frame, Michael F. Wehner, Ilan Noy, Suzanne M. Rosier | |
| The Effects of Heat Exposure on Human Mortality Throughout the United States | GeoHealth | Drew Shindell. Yuqiang Zhang, Melissa Scott, Muye Ru, Krista Stark, and Kristie Ebi | |
| Climate change is increasing the risk of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California | Environmental Research Letters | Michael Goss, Daniel L Swain, John T Abatzoglou, Ali Sarhadi, Crystal Kolden, A Park Williams, Noah S Diffenbaugh | |
| Colorado River flow dwindles as warming-driven loss of reflective snow energizes evaporation | Science | P. C. D. Milly, K. A. Dunne |
