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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Causes of twentieth-century temperature change near the Earth's surface | Nature | Simon F. B. Tett, Peter A. Stott, Myles R. Allen, William J. Ingram, John F. B. Mitchell | |
Near-Fatal Heat Stroke during the 1995 Heat Wave in Chicago | Annals of Internal Medicine | Jane E. Dematte, Karen O'Mara, Jennifer Buescher, Cynthia G. Whitney, Sean Forsythe, Turi McNamee, Raghavendra B. Adiga, I. Maurice Ndukwu | |
Photochemical box modeling of long-range transport from North America to Tenerife during NARE | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | Schultz, M., Schmitt, R., Thomas, K., Volz‐Thomas, A. | |
Detecting climate signals in the surface temperature record | AMS Journal of Climate | Gerald R. North and Mark J. Stevens | |
“Great Salinity Anomalies” in the North Atlantic | Progress in Oceanography | I.M Belkin, S Levitus, J Antonov, S.-A Malmberg | |
Maximum and Minimum Temperature Trends for the Globe | Science | David R. Easterling, Briony Horton, Philip D. Jones, Thomas C. Peterson, Thomas R. Karl, David E. Parker, M. James Salinger, Vyacheslav Razuvayev, Neil Plummer, Paul Jamason, Christopher K. Folland | |
Multi-fingerprint detection and attribution analysis of greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas-plus-aerosol and solar forced climate change | Climate Dynamics | G. C. Hegerl, K. Hasselmann, U. Cubasch, J. F. B. Mitchell, E. Roeckner, R. Voss, J. Waszkewitz | |
The 1995 Chicago Heat Wave: How Likely Is a Recurrence? | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Thomas R. Karl and Richard W. Knight | |
Detecting Greenhouse-Gas-Induced Climate Change with an Optimal Fingerprint Method | AMS Journal of Climate | Hegerl, G.C., H.v. Storch, K. Hasselmann, B.D. Santer, U. Cubasch, and P.D. Jones | |
Heat-Related Deaths during the July 1995 Heat Wave in Chicago | The New England Journal of Medicine | Jan C. Semenza, Ph.D., M.P.H., Carol H. Rubin, D.V.M., M.P.H., Kenneth H. Falter, Ph.D., Joel D. Selanikio, M.D., W. Dana Flanders, M.D., D.Sc., Holly L. Howe, Ph.D., and John L. Wilhelm, M.D., M.P.H. | |
A search for human influences on the thermal structure of the atmosphere | Nature | B. D. Santer, K. E. Taylor, T. M. L. Wigley, T. C. Johns, P. D. Jones, D. J. Karoly, J. F. B. Mitchell, A. H. Oort, J. E. Penner, V. Ramaswamy, M. D. Schwarzkopf, R. J. Stouffer, S. Tett | |
The July 1995 Heat Wave in the Midwest: A Climatic Perspective and Critical Weather Factors | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Kunkel, K. E., S. A. Changnon, B. C. Reinke, and R. W. Arritt | |
Impacts and Responses to the 1995 Heat Wave: A Call to Action | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Stanley A. Changnon, Kenneth E. Kunkel, and Beth C. Reinke | |
Natural and anthropogenic changes in atmospheric CO2 over the last 1000 years from air in Antarctic ice and firn | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | Etheridge, D. M., Steele, L. P., Langenfelds, R. L., Francey, R. J., Barnola, J.‐M., Morgan, V. I. | |
Towards the detection and attribution of an anthropogenic effect on climate | Climate Dynamics | Benjamin D. Santer, Karl E. Taylor, Tom M. L. Wigley, Joyce E. Penner, Philip D. Jones, Ulrich Cubasch | |
Frequency of Heavy Rainfall Events in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1900 to 1991 | Southeastern Geographer | Barry D. Keim, Robert A. Muller | |
The Association between Extremes in North American Snow Cover Extent and United States Temperatures | AMS: Journal of Climate | Daniel J. Leathers and Dayid A. Robinson | |
“Recent warming”: ice core evidence from tropical ice cores with emphasis on Central Asia | Global and Planetary Change | L.G. Thompson, E.Mosley-Thompson, M.Davis, P.N.Lin, T.Yao, M.Dyurgerov J.Dai | |
Winter ticks on moose and other ungulates: factors influencing their population size | Alces | Samuel, W. M., & Welch, Dwight A. | |
Potential evapotranspiration and the likelihood of future drought | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | Rind, D., Goldberg, R., Hansen, J., Rosenzweig, C., Ruedy, R. |