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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Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms | Nature | James C. Orr, Victoria J. Fabry, Olivier Aumont, Laurent Bopp, Scott C. Doney, Richard A. Feely, Anand Gnanadesikan, Nicolas Gruber, Akio Ishida, Fortunat Joos, Robert M. Key, Keith Lindsay, Ernst Maier-Reimer, Richard Matear, Patrick Monfray et al | |
Precipitation Shifts over Western North America as a Result of Declining Arctic Sea Ice Cover: The Coupled System Response | American Meteorological Society | Jacob O. Sewall | |
Detection of changes in temperature extremes during the second half of the 20th century | Geophysical Research Letters | Christidis, Nikolaos, Stott, Peter A., Brown, Simon, Hegerl, Gabriele C., Caesar, John | |
Maximum and minimum temperature trends for the globe: An update through 2004 | Geophysical Research Letters | Russell S. Vose, David R. Easterling, Byron Gleason | |
Thermohaline Ocean Circulation | Encyclopedia of Quaternary Sciences | Stefan Rahmstorf | |
Onset of spring starting earlier across the Northern Hemisphere | Global Change Biology | Schwartz, Marl D., Ahas, Rein, Aasa, Anto | |
Have anthropogenic aerosols delayed a greenhouse gas-induced weakening of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation? | Geophysical Research Letters | Thomas L. Delworth and Keith W. Dixon | |
Changes in the timing of winter–spring streamflows in eastern North America, 1913–2002 | Geophysical Research Letters | Hodgkins, Glenn A., Dudley, Robert W. | |
Variability and climate change in the Mantaro River Basin, Central Peruvian Andes | Proceedings of 8 ICSHMO | Yamina Silva, Ken Takahashi, Nicolas Cruz, Grace Trasmonte, Kobi Mosquera, Elsa Nickl, Raul Chavez, Berlin Segura and Pablo Lagos | |
Multimodel ensemble simulations of present-day and near-future tropospheric ozone | Stevenson, Dentener, Schultz, Ellingsen, van Noije, Wild, G. Zeng, Amann, Atherton, Bell, Bergmann, Bey, Butler, Cofala, Collins, Derwent, Doherty, Drevet, Eskes, Fiore, Gauss, Hauglustaine, Horowitz, Isaksen, Krol, Lamarque, Lawrence, Montanaro et al | ||
Recent changes in the fire regime across the North American boreal region—Spatial and temporal patterns of burning across Canada and Alaska | Geophysical Research Letters | Eric S. Kasischke, Merritt R. Turetsky | |
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 | |
Anthropogenic Warming of the Oceans: Observations and Model Results | AMS Journal of Climate | David W. Pierce and Tim P. Barnett | |
Flooding on California's Russian River: Role of atmospheric rivers | Geophysical Research Letters | Ralph, F. Martin, Neiman, Paul J., Wick, Gary A., Gutman, Seth I., Dettinger, Michael D., Cayan, Daniel R., White, Allen B. | |
Forced and unforced ocean temperature changes in Atlantic and Pacific tropical cyclogenesis regions | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | B. D. Santer, T. M. L. Wigley, P. J. Gleckler, C. Bonfils, M. F. Wehner, K. AchutaRao, T. P. Barnett, J. S. Boyle, W. Brüggemann, M. Fiorino, N. Gillett, J. E. Hansen, P. D. Jones, S. A. Klein, G. A. Meehl, S. C. B. Raper, R. W. Reynolds et al | |
Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity | Science | A. L. Westerling, H. G. Hidalgo, D. R. Cayan, T. W. Swetnam | |
Multimodel Multisignal Climate Change Detection at Regional Scale | AMS Journal of Climate | Xuebin Zhang | |
Increasing Antarctic Sea Ice under Warming Atmospheric and Oceanic Conditions | Jiinlun Zhang | ||
Forced and unforced ocean temperature changes in Atlantic and Pacific tropical cyclogenesis regions | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | B. D. Santer, T. M. L. Wigley, P. J. Gleckler, C. Bonfils, M. F. Wehner, K. AchutaRao, T. P. Barnett, J. S. Boyle, W. Brüggemann, M. Fiorino, N. Gillett, J. E. Hansen, P. D. Jones, S. A. Klein, G. A. Meehl, S. C. B. Raper, R. W. Reynolds et al | |
The impact of natural and anthropogenic forcings on climate and hydrology since 1550 | Climate Dynamics | Simon F. B. Tett, Richard Betts, Thomas J. Crowley, Jonathan Gregory, Timothy C. Johns, Andy Jones, Timothy J. Osborn, Elisabeth Öström, David L. Roberts, Margaret J. Woodage |