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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Variability of tornado occurrence over the continental United States since 1950 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | Guo, Li, Wang, Kaicun, Bluestein, Howard B. | |
| Variations in the Intensity and Spatial Extent of Tropical Cyclone Precipitation | Geophysical Research Letters | Danielle Touma, Samantha Stevenson, Suzana J. Camargo, Daniel E. Horton, Noah S. Diffenbaugh | |
| 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 | |
| Vital Signs: Update on Zika Virus–Associated Birth Defects and Evaluation of All U.S. Infants with Congenital Zika Virus Exposure — U.S. Zika Pregnancy Registry, 2016 | MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report | Megan R. Reynolds, MPH; Abbey M. Jones, MPH; Emily E. Petersen, MD; Ellen H. Lee, MD; Marion E. Rice, MPH; Andrea Bingham, PhD; Sascha R. Ellington, MSPH; Nicole Evert, MS; Sarah Reagan-Steiner, MD et al | |
| Vulnerability due to Nocturnal Tornadoes | American Meteorological Society | Walker S. Ashley, Andrew J. Krmenec, and Rick Schwantes | |
| Vulnerability of African maize yield to climate change and variability during 1961–2010 | Food Security | Wenjiao Shi, Fulu Tao | |
| Vulnerability of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands to present-day rates of relative sea-level rise | Nature Communications | Krista L. Jankowski, Torbjörn E Törnqvist, Anjali M Fernandes | |
| Warm Arctic episodes linked with increased frequency of extreme winter weather in the United States | Nature Communications | Judah Cohen, Karl Pfeiffer, Jennifer A. Francis | |
| 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 | ||
| Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity | Science | A. L. Westerling, H. G. Hidalgo, D. R. Cayan, T. W. Swetnam | |
| Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year | Nature | Eric J. Steig, David P. Schneider, Scott D. Rutherford, Michael E. Mann, Josefino C. Comiso, Drew T. Shindell | |
| Water and energy budgets of hurricanes: Case studies of Ivan and Katrina | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | Trenberth, Kevin E., Davis, Christopher A., Fasullo, John | |
| Water, drought, climate change, and conflict in Syria | American Meteorological Society | Peter H. Gleick | |
| Weakening of the stratospheric polar vortex by Arctic sea-ice loss | Nature Communications | Baek-Min Kim, Seok-Woo Son, Seung-Ki Min, Jee-Hoon Jeong, Seong-Joong Kim, Xiangdong Zhang, Taehyoun Shim, Jin-Ho Yoon | |
| 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 | |
| Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate | The U.S. Climate Change Science Program Preface | Thomas R. Karl, Gerald A. Meehl, Christopher D. Miller, Susan J. Hassol, Anne M. Waple, and William L. Murray | |
| Western Pine Beetle Populations in Arizona and California Differ in the Composition of Their Aggregation Pheromones | Journal of Chemical Ecology | Pureswaran DS, Hofstetter RW, Sullivan BT, Grady AM, Brownie C | |
| Western Wildfires: A Fiery Future | Climate Central | Alyson Kenward, PhD, Todd Sanford, PhD, James Bronzan | |
| What We Know – The Reality, Risks, and Response To Climate Change | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | Mario Molina, James McCarthy, Diana Wall, Richard Alley, Julia Cole, Sarah Das, Noah Diffenbaugh, Kerry Emanuel, Howard Frumkin, Katharine Hayhoe, Camille Parmesan, Marshall Shepherd | |
| Wheat yield loss attributable to heat waves, drought and water excess at the global, national and subnational scales | Environmental Research Letters | M Zampieri, A Ceglar, F Dentener and A Toreti |
