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)
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
Title Source Date Author(s)
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