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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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
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.)
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
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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
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
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
Variability of tornado occurrence over the continental United States since 1950 Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres Guo, Li, Wang, Kaicun, Bluestein, Howard B.
Variability of tornado climatology across the continental United States International Journal of Climatology Farney, Tory J., Dixon, P. Grady
Variability of extreme precipitation over Yunnan Province, China 1960–2012 International Journal of Climatology Li, Yun‐Gang, He, Daming, Hu, Jin‐Ming, Cao, Jie
Variability in tornado frequency associated with U.S. landfalling tropical cyclones Geophysical Research Letters Belanger, James I., Curry, Judith A., Hoyos, Carlos D.
Variability in the surface temperature and melt extent of the Greenland ice sheet from MODIS Geophysical Research Letters Hall, Dorothy K., Comiso, Josefino C., DiGirolamo, Nicolo E., Shuman, Christopher A., Box, Jason E., Koenig, Lora S.
Variability and climate change in the Mantaro River Basin, Central Peruvian Andes Proceedings of 8 ICSHMO Yamina Silva, Ken Takahashi, Nicolas Cruz, Grace Trasmonte, Kobi Mosquera, Elsa Nickl, Raul Chavez, Berlin Segura and Pablo Lagos
Using present-day observations to detect when anthropogenic change forces surface ocean carbonate chemistry outside preindustrial bounds Biogeosciences Sutton, Adrienne J., Sabine, Christopher L., Feely, Richard A., Cai, Wei-Jun, Cronin, Meghan F., McPhaden, Michael J., Morell, Julio M., Newton, Jan A., Noh, Jae-Hoon, Ólafsdóttir, Sólveig R., Salisbury, Joseph E., Send, Uwe et al
Using GPS collars to determine parturition and cause-specific mortality of moose calves Wildlife Society Bulletin Severud, William J., Giudice, Glenn Del, Obermoller, Tyler R., Enright, Thomas A., Wright, Robert G., Forester, James D.
Using data to attribute episodes of warming and cooling in instrumental records Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Ka-Kit Tung, Jiansong Zhou
US surface ozone trends and extremes from 1980 to 2014: quantifying the roles of rising Asian emissions, domestic controls, wildfires, and climate Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Lin, Meiyun, Horowitz, Larry W., Payton, Richard, Fiore, Arlene M., Tonnesen, Gail
US surface ozone trends and extremes from 1980 to 2014: quantifying the roles of rising Asian emissions, domestic controls, wildfires, and climate Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Lin, Meiyun, Horowitz, Larry W., Payton, Richard, Fiore, Arlene M., Tonnesen, Gail
US regional tornado outbreaks and their links to spring ENSO phases and North Atlantic SST variability Environmental Research Letters Sang-Ki Lee, Andrew TWittenberg, David B Enfield, Scott J Weaver, Chunzai Wang and Robert Atlas
US daily temperature records past, present, and future Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Gerald A. Meehl, Claudia Tebaldi, Dennis Adams-Smith
Urban heat island impacts on plant phenology: intra-urban variability and response to land cover Environmental Research Letters Samuel C Zipper, Jason Schatz, Aditya Singh, Christopher J Kucharik, Philip A Townsend, Steven P Loheide II
Upper-tropospheric moistening in response to anthropogenic warming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Eui-Seok Chung, Brian Soden, B. J. Sohn, Lei Shi
Upper Ocean O2 trends: 1958‐2015 Geophysical Research Letters Ito, Takamitsu, Minobe, Shoshiro, Long, Matthew C., Deutsch, Curtis
Updated analyses of temperature and precipitation extreme indices since the beginning of the twentieth century: The HadEX2 dataset Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres Donat, M. G., Alexander, L. V., Yang, H., Durre, I., Vose, R., Dunn, R. J. H., Willett, K. M., Aguilar, E., Brunet, M., Caesar, J., Hewitson, B., Jack, C., Klein Tank, A. M. G., Kruger, A. C., Marengo, J., Peterson, T. C., Renom, M. et al