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)
NCA 4: Climate Change Impacts in the United States (Volume I) U.S. Global Change Research Program Donald Wuebbles, David Fahey, and Kathleen Hibbard
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
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.)
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
Title Source Date Author(s)
Drivers of 2016 record Arctic warmth assessed using climate simulations subjected to Factual and Counterfactual forcing Weather and Climate Extremes Lantao Sun, Dave Allured, Martin Hoerling, Lesley Smith, Judith Perlwitz, Don Murray, Jon Eischeid
Quantile-based bias correction and uncertainty quantification of extreme event attribution statements Weather and Climate Extremes Jeon, Paciorek, and Wehner
Global and regional climate in 2016 Weather Kennedy, John, Dunn, Robert, McCarthy, Mark, Titchner, Holly, Morice, Colin
Factors contributing to the summer 2003 European heatwave Weather Black, Emily, Blackburn, Mike, Harrison, Giles, Hoskins, Brian, Methven, John
The North Atlantic Ocean and climate change in the UK and northern Europe Weather Wells, Neil C.
Hydroclimatology of the 2008 Midwest floods Water Resources Research D. Budikova, J. S. M. Coleman, S. A. Strope, and A. Austin
Snowmelt timing alters shallow but not deep soil moisture in the Sierra Nevada Water Resources Research Joseph C. Blankinship, Matthew W. Meadows, Ryan G. Lucas, and Stephen C. Hart
The twenty‐first century Colorado River hot drought and implications for the future Water Resources Research Bradley Udall, Jonathan Overpeck
The 21st century Colorado River hot drought and implications for the future Water Resources Research Udall, Bradley, Overpeck, Jonathan
Sensitivity of snowpack storage to precipitation and temperature using spatial and temporal analog models Water Resources Research Charles H. Luce, Viviana Lopez‐Burgos, Zachary Holden
Independent effects of temperature and precipitation on modeled runoff in the conterminous United States Water Resources Research Gregory J. McCabe, David M. Wolock
Global and Regional Increase of Precipitation Extremes under Global Warming Water Resources Research Simon Michael Papalexiou and Alberto Montanari
Quantifying the relative contribution of the climate and direct human impacts on mean annual streamflow in the contiguous United States Water Resources Research Dingbao Wang, Mohamad Hejazi
Annually resolved late Holocene paleohydrology of the southern Sierra Nevada and Tulare Lake, California Water Resources Research Adams, Kenneth D., Negrini, Robert M., Cook, Edward R., Rajagopal, Seshadri
On the causes of declining Colorado River streamflows Water Resources Research Mu Xiao, Bradley Udall, Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Winter Snow Level Rise in the Northern Sierra Nevada from 2008 to 2017 Water Benjamin J. Hatchett, Orcid, Britta Daudert, Christopher B. Garner, Nina S. Oakley, Aaron E. Putnam , and Allen B. White
Atmospheric Rivers, Floods and the Water Resources of California Water Michael D. Dettinger, Fred Martin Ralph, Tapash Das, Paul J. Neiman and Daniel R. Cayan
Synoptic and Climate Attributions of the December 2015 Extreme Flooding in Missouri, USA Water Boniface Fosu, Simon Wang, and Kathleen Pegion
The Costs of Doing Nothing: A Sea Level Rise Synopsis for the Hampton Roads Region Virginia Coastal Policy Center (VCPC) at William & Mary Law School George Van Houtven, Brooks Depro, Daniel Lapidus, Justine Allpress, Benjamin Lord
Spring Climate Trends Changing in the Northeast USDA Blog Dave Hollinger, Director, USDA Northeast Climate Hub