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.

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Title Source Date Author(s)
Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale Nature Climate Change Sebastian Sippel, Nicolai Meinshausen, Erich M. Fischer, Enikő Székely, Reto Knutti
Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Assessment: Part I Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Thomas Knutson, Suzana J. Camargo, Johnny C. L. Chan, Kerry Emanuel, Chang-Hoi Ho, James Kossin, Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Masaki Satoh, Masato Sugi, Kevin Walsh, and Liguang Wu
NCA 4: Climate Change Impacts in the United States (Volume I) U.S. Global Change Research Program Donald Wuebbles, David Fahey, and Kathleen Hibbard
Attribution of climate extreme events Nature Climate Change Kevin E. Trenberth, John T. Fasullo & Theodore G. Shepherd
IPCC AR5 WGI: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis Cambridge University Press Stocker, T.F., D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, M. Tignor, S.K. Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex and P.M. Midgley (eds.)
Title Source Date Author(s)
Forecasted attribution of the human influence on Hurricane Florence Science Advances K. A. Reed, A. M. Stansfield, M. F. Wehner, C. M. Zarzycki
Precipitation Extremes: Trends and Relationships with Average Precipitation and Precipitable Water in the Contiguous United States American Meteorological Society Kenneth E. Kunkel, Thomas R. Karl, Michael F. Squires, Xungang Yin, Steve T. Stegall, and David R. Easterling
Divergent consensuses on Arctic amplification influence on midlatitude severe winter weather Nature Climate Change J. Cohen, X. Zhang, J. Francis, T. Jung, R. Kwok, J. Overland, T. J. Ballinger, U. S. Bhatt, H. W. Chen, D. Coumou, S. Feldstein...M. Wendisch, Y. Wu, J. Yoon
EEE 2018: Quantifying Human-Induced Temperature Impacts on the 2018 United States Four Corners Hydrologic and Agro-Pastoral Drought Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Williams, E., Funk, C., Shukla, S., and McEvoy, D.
EEE 2018: The Record Low Bering Sea Ice Extent in 2018 – Context, Impacts, and an Assessment of the Role of Anthropogenic Climate Change Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Thoman R. T., Bhatt, U. S., Bieniek, P. A., Brettschneider, B. R., Brubaker, M., et al . . . Walsh, J. E.
EEE 2018: Anthropogenic Impacts on the Exceptional Precipitation of 2018 in the Mid-Atlantic United States Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Winter, J. H., Huang, H., Osterberg, E. C., and Mankin, J. S.
EEE 2018: Extreme Hail Storms and Climate Change: Foretelling the Future In Tiny, Turbulent Crystal Balls? Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Kelly Mahoney
EEE 2018: Anthropogenic Impacts on the Exceptional Precipitation of 2018 in the Mid-Atlantic Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Winter, J. M., Huang, H., Osterberg, E. C., and Mankin, J. S.
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