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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Unusually high temperatures at the North Pole, winter 2016 | World Weather Attribution | ||
Unraveling anthropogenic influence on the changing risk of heat waves in China | Geophysical Research Letters | Sun, Qiaohong, Miao, Chiyuan, AghaKouchak, Amir, Duan, Qingyun | |
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 | |
Unprecedented drought over tropical South America in 2016: significantly under-predicted by tropical SST | Scientific Reports | Amir Erfanian, Guiling Wang, and Lori Fomenko | |
Unprecedented climate events: Historical changes, aspirational targets, and national commitments | Science Advances | Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Deepti Singh, and Justin S. Mankin | |
Unprecedented 21st century drought risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains | Science Advances | Benjamin I. Cook, Toby R. Ault, Jason E. Smerdon | |
Unnatural Coastal Floods: Sea level rise and the human fingerprint on U.S. floods since 1950 | Climate Central | Benjamin H. Strauss, Robert E. Kopp, William V. Sweet, Klaus Bittermann | |
Understanding the rapid summer warming and changes in temperature extremes since the mid-1990s over Western Europe | Climate Dynamics | Buwen Dong, Rowan T. Sutton, Len Shaffrey | |
Understanding Recent Eastern Horn of Africa Rainfall Variability and Change | Journal of Climate | Brant Liebmann, Martin P. Hoerling, Chris Funk, Ileana Bladé, Randall M. Dole, Dave Allured, Xiaowei Quan, Philip Pegion, and Jon K. Eischeid | |
Understanding flood regime changes in Europe: a state-of-the-art assessment | Hydrology and Earth System Sciences | Hall, J., Arheimer, B., Borga, M., Brázdil, R., Claps, P., Kiss, A., Kjeldsen, T. R., Kriaučiūnienė, J., Kundzewicz, Z. W., Lang, M., Llasat, M. C., Macdonald, N., McIntyre, N., Mediero, L., Merz, B., Merz, R., Molnar, P., Montanari, A. et al | |
Understanding climate change projections for precipitation over western Europe with a weather typing approach | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | Santos, João A., Belo‐Pereira, Margarida, Fraga, Helder, Pinto, Joaquim G. | |
Under-estimated wave contribution to coastal sea-level rise | Nature Climate Change | Angélique Melet, Benoit Meyssignac, Rafael Almar, Gonéri Le Cozannet | |
Uncertainty in the relationship between climate forcing and hydrological response in UK catchments | Hydrology and Earth System Sciences | N. W. Arnell | |
Uncertain recovery of the North Atlantic right whale in a changing ocean | Global Change Biology | Meyer‐Gutbrod, Erin L., Greene, Charles H. | |
Un/natural Disasters: Communicating Linkages Between Extreme Events and Climate Change | World Meteorological Organization | Susan Joy Hassol, Simon Torok, Sophie Lewis, and Patrick Luganda | |
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 | ||
U.S. temperature and drought: Recent anomalies and trends | Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union | T. R. Karl, B. E. Gleason, M. J. Menne, J. R. McMahon, R. R. Heim, M. J. Brewer, K. E. Kunkel, D. S. Arndt, J. L. Privette, J. J. Bates, P. Y. Groisman, D. R. Easterling | |
U.S. Heat, February 2017 | World Weather Attribution | Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Andrew King, Friederike Otto, Gabriel Vecchi, Claudia Tebaldi, and Heidi Cullen | |
U-Th dating reveals regional-scale decline of branching Acropora corals on the Great Barrier Reef over the past century | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Tara R. Clark, George Roff, Jian-xin Zhao, Yue-xing Feng, Terence J. Done, Laurence J. McCook, John M. Pandolfi | |
Two distinct influences of Arctic warming on cold winters over North America and East Asia | Nature Geoscience | Jong-Seong Kug, Jee-Hoon Jeong, Yeon-Soo Jang, Baek-Min Kim, Chris K. Folland, Seung-Ki Min, Seok-Woo Son |