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
Attribution of climate extreme events Nature Climate Change Kevin E. Trenberth, John T. Fasullo & Theodore G. Shepherd
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
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)
Unprecedented warming revealed from multi-proxy reconstruction of temperature in southern China for the past 160 years Advances in Atmospheric Sciences Yang Liu, Jingyun Zheng, Zhixin Hao, Xuezhen Zhang
Trends of extreme precipitation in eastern China and their possible causes Advances in Atmospheric Sciences Run Liu, Shaw Chen Liu, Ralph J. Cicerone, Chein-Jung Shiu, Jun Li, Jingli Wang, Yuanhang Zhang
2017 was the Warmest Year on Record for the Global Ocean Advances in Atmospheric Sciences Lijing Cheng and Jiang Zhu
Large Wildfires in Forests: What Can be Done? Action Bioscience Scott L. Stephens, Malcolm P. North, and Brandon M. Collins
Exceptionally Hot and Cold Summers in Europe (1951-2010) Acta Geophysica Robert Twardosz, Urszula Kossowska-Cezak
State of the Lake UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center Geoffrey Schladow
Effects of Drought on Forests and Rangelands in the United States: A Comprehensive Science Synthesis U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service James M. Vose, James S. Clark, Charles H. Luce, Toral Patel-Weynand
Global Warming Will Aggravate Ozone Pollution in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology Cristina L. Archer, Joseph F. Brodie, and Sara A. Rauscher
Cranking Up The Intensity: Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events Climate Council of Australia Limited Professor Will Steffen, Professor Lesley Hughes, Dr David Alexander and Dr Martin Rice
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
WMO Presentation: Foehn jets and their implications for the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica Elvidge
East Antarctic ice sheet stability recorded in a high-elevation ice-cored moraine Nicole A. Bader, Kathy J. Lichta, Michael R. Kaplan, Christine Kassab, Gisela Winckler
Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia PAGES 2k Consortium, Moinuddin Ahmed, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Asfawossen Asrat, Hemant P. Borgaonkar, Martina Braida, Brendan M. Buckley, Ulf Büntgen, Brian M. Chase, Duncan A. Christie et al
Permafrost is warming at a global scale Boris K. Biskaborn, Sharon L. Smith, Jeannette Noetzli et al
Warm Arctic, Cold Continents: A Common Pattern Related to Arctic Sea Ice Melt, Snow Advance, and Extreme Winter Weather Judah Cohen, Justin E. Jones, Jason C. Furtado, Eli Tziperman
Grey swan tropical cyclones Ning Lin and Kerry Emanuel
UK Climate Projections science report: Climate change projections James Murphy, David Sexton, Geoff Jenkins, Penny Boorman, Ben Booth, Kate Brown, Robin Clark, Mat Collins, Glen Harris, Lizzie Kendon
Climate Change: A Deadly Threat to Coral Reefs The Climate Council
Future Warming and Intensification of Precipitation Extremes: A “Double Whammy” Leading to Increasing Flood Risk in California Xingying Huang, Samantha Stevenson, and Alex D. Hall
Influence of Tropical Tropopause Layer Cooling on Atlantic Hurricane Activity Kerry Emanuel, Susan Solomon, Doris Folini, Sean Davis, and Chiara Cagnazzo