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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Evaluating the performance of past climate model projections | Geophysical Research Letters | Zeke Hausfather, Henri F. Drake, Tristan Abbott, Gavin A. Schmidt | |
The impact of rising CO2 and acclimation on the response of US forests to global warming | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | John S. Sperry, Martin D. Venturas, Henry N. Todd, Anna T. Trugman, William R. L. Anderegg, Yujie Wang, Xiaonan Tai | |
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 | |
A reversal in global terrestrial stilling and its implications for wind energy production | Nature Climate Change | Zhenzhong Zeng, Alan D. Ziegler, Timothy Searchinger, Long Yang, Anping Chen, Kunlu Ju, Shilong Piao, Laurent Z. X. Li, Philippe Ciais, Deliang Chen, Junguo Liu, Cesar Azorin-Molina, Adrian Chappell, David Medvigy, Eric F. Wood | |
Normalized US hurricane damage estimates using area of total destruction, 1900−2018 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Aslak Grinsted, Peter Ditlevsen, Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen | |
Viral emergence in marine mammals in the North Pacific may be linked to Arctic sea ice reduction | Scientific Reports | E. VanWormer, J. A. K. Mazet, A. Hall, V. A. Gill, P. L. Boveng, J. M. London, T. Gelatt, B. S. Fadely, M. E. et al | |
New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding | Nature Communications | Scott A. Kulp, Benjamin H. Strauss | |
How daily temperature and precipitation distributions evolve with global surface temperature | Earth's Future | B.H. Samset, C.W. Stjern, M.T. Lund, C.W. Mohr, M. Sand, A.S. Daloz | |
Enhanced El Niño‐Southern Oscillation variability in recent decades | Geophysical Research Letters | Pamela R. Grothe, Kim M. Cobb, Giovanni Liguori, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Antonietta Capotondi, Yanbin Lu et al . . . Lauren T. Toth | |
Cold waves are getting milder in the northern midlatitudes | Environmental Research Letters | Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Eli Mitchell-Larson, Gabriel A Vecchi, Hylke de Vries, Robert Vautard and Friederike Otto | |
Marine heat wave and multiple stressors tip bull kelp forest to sea urchin barrens | Scientific Reports | L. Rogers-Bennett, C. A. Catton | |
Historical change of El Niño properties sheds light on future changes of extreme El Niño | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Bin Wang, Xiao Luo, Young-Min Yang, Weiyi Sun, Mark A. Cane, Wenju Cai, Sang-Wook Yeh, Jian Liu | |
Variations in the Intensity and Spatial Extent of Tropical Cyclone Precipitation | Geophysical Research Letters | Danielle Touma, Samantha Stevenson, Suzana J. Camargo, Daniel E. Horton, Noah S. Diffenbaugh | |
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 | |
Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, V. Masson-Delmotte, P. Zhai, M. Tignor, E. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Nicolai, A. Okem, J. Petzold, B. Rama, N.M. Weyer (eds.) | |
Connecting AMOC changes | Nature Climate Change | Annalisa Cherchi | |
Exceptionally High 2018 Equilibrium Line Altitude on Taku Glacier, Alaska | Remote Sensing | Pelto, Mauri | |
Severe Continental-Scale Impacts of Climate Change Are Happening Now: Extreme Climate Events Impact Marine Habitat Forming Communities Along 45% of Australia’s Coast | Frontiers in Marine Science | Babcock, Russell C., Bustamante, Rodrigo H., Fulton, Elizabeth A., Fulton, Derek J., Haywood, Michael D. E., Hobday, Alistair James, Kenyon, Robert, Matear, Richard James, Plagányi, Eva E., Richardson, Anthony J., Vanderklift, Mathew A. | |
Recent increase in catastrophic tropical cyclone flooding in coastal North Carolina, USA: Long-term observations suggest a regime shift | Scientific Reports | Hans W. Paerl, Nathan S. Hall, Alexandria G. Hounshell, Richard A. Luettich, Karen L. Rossignol, Christopher L. Osburn, Jerad Bales | |
Northern forest winters have lost cold, snowy conditions that are important for ecosystems and human communities | Ecological Applications | Contosta, Casson, Garlick et al |