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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Temporal and Spatial Variability of Great Lakes Ice Cover, 1973–2010 | American Meteorological Society | Jia Wang, Xuezhi Bai, Haoguo Hu, Anne Clites, Marie Colton, and Brent Lofgren | |
Seasonal Climate Variability and Change in the Pacific Northwest of the United States | American Meteorological Society | John T. Abatzoglou, David E. Rupp and Philip W. Mote | |
Expansion of the Southern Hemisphere Hadley Cell in Response to Greenhouse Gas Forcing | American Meteorological Society | H. Nguyen, C. Lucas, A. Evans, B. Timbal, and L. Hanson | |
Meteorological Characteristics and Overland Precipitation Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers Affecting the West Coast of North America Based on Eight Years of SSM/I Satellite Observations | American Meteorological Society | Paul J. Neiman, F. Martin Ralph, Gary A. Wick, Jessica D. Lundquist, Michael D. Dettinger | |
Anthropogenic Influence on Long Return Period Daily Temperature Extremes at Regional Scales | American Meteorological Society | Francis W. Zwiers, Xuebin Zhang and Yang Feng | |
On the Increased Frequency of Mediterranean Drought | American Meteorological Society | Martin Hoerling, Jon Eischeid, Judith Perlwitz, Xiaowei Quan, Tao Zhang, and Philip Pegion | |
Climatology and Changes of Extratropical Cyclone Activity: Comparison of ERA-40 with NCEP–NCAR Reanalysis for 1958–2001 | American Meteorological Society | Xiaolan L. Wang, Val R. Swail, and Francis W. Zwiers | |
Twenty-First-Century Snowfall and Snowpack Changes over the Southern California Mountains | American Meteorological Society | Fengpeng Sun, Alex Hall, Marla Schwartz, Daniel B.Walton, and Neil Berg | |
Assessing the Importance of Prominent Warm SST Anomalies over the Midlatitude North Pacific in Forcing Large-Scale Atmospheric Anomalies during 2011 Summer and Autumn | American Meteorological Society | Satoru Okajima, Hisashi Nakamura, Kazuaki Nishii, Takafumi Miyasaka, Akira Kuwano-Yoshida | |
Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective | American Meteorological Society | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | |
Trends in twentieth-century US snowfall using a quality-controlled dataset | American Meteorological Society | Kenneth E. Kunkel, Michael Palecki, Leslie Ensor, Kenneth G. Hubbard, David Robinson, Kelly Redmond, David Easterling | |
Effects of a Warming Climate on Daily Snowfall Events in the Northern Hemisphere | American Meteorological Society | James F. Danco, Anthony M. DeAngelis, Bryan K. Raney, and Anthony J. Broccoli | |
Hurricane Sandy inundation probabilities today and tomorrow | American Meteorological Society | William Sweet, Chris Zervas, Stephen Gill, and Joseph Park | |
Observed Climate–Snowpack Relationships in California and their Implications for the Future | American Meteorological Society | Sarah Kapnick and Alex Hall | |
Increased Interannual Precipitation Extremes over California under Climate Change | American Meteorological Society | Neil Berg and Alex Hall | |
Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Air Temperature Variability: 1840–2007 | American Meteorological Society | Jason E. Box, Lei Yang, David H. Bromwich and Le-Sheng Bai | |
Trends in twentieth-century U.S. extreme snowfall seasons | American Meteorological Society | Kenneth E. Kunkel, Michael A. Palecki, Leslie Ensor, David Easterling, Kenneth G. Hubbard, David Robinson, Kelly Redmond | |
Effects of Rainfall on Vehicle Crashes in Six U.S. States | American Meteorological Society | Alan Black, Gabriele Villarini, and Thomas Mote | |
Contributions from California Coastal-Zone Surface Fluxes to Heavy Coastal Precipitation: A CALJET Case Study during the Strong El Niño of 1998 | American Meteorological Society | P. Ola G. Persson, P. J. Neiman, B. Walter, J-W. Bao and F. M. Ralph | |
On the Measurement of Heat Waves | American Meteorological Society | S. E. Perkins and L. V. Alexander |