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)
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
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.)
Attribution of climate extreme events Nature Climate Change Kevin E. Trenberth, John T. Fasullo & Theodore G. Shepherd
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Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity Science A. L. Westerling, H. G. Hidalgo, D. R. Cayan, T. W. Swetnam
Climate and wildfire area burned in western U.S. ecoprovinces, 1916–2003 Ecological Applications Littell, Jeremy S., McKenzie, Donald, Peterson, David L., Westerling, Anthony L.
Large wildfire trends in the western United States, 1984–2011 Geophysical Research Letters Dennison, Philip E., Brewer, Simon C., Arnold, James D., Moritz, Max A.
Sea-Level Rise from the Late 19th to the Early 21st Century Surveys in Geophysics John A. Church, Neil J. White
Thermohaline Ocean Circulation Encyclopedia of Quaternary Sciences Stefan Rahmstorf
Distribution and trends in Arctic sea ice age through spring 2011 Geophysical Research Letters James Maslanik, Julienne Stroeve, Charles Fowler, and William Emery
Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA): Climate Change and the Cryosphere Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme Overland JE, Wang M, Walsh JE, Christensen JH, Kattsov VM, Champan WL
Decline in Arctic sea ice thickness from submarine and ICESat records: 1958–2008 Geophysical Research Letters R. Kwok and D. A. Rothrock
Thinning of the Arctic sea-ice cover Geophysical Research Letters Rothrock, D. A., Yu, Y., Maykut, G. A.
Regions of rapid sea ice change: An inter-hemispheric seasonal comparison Geophysical Research Letters Stammerjohn, Sharon, Massom, Robert, Rind, David, Martinson, Douglas
Effects of Arctic Sea Ice Decline on Weather and Climate: a review Surveys in Geophysics Timo Vihma
Exploring links between Arctic amplification and mid-latitude weather Geophysical Research Letters Screen, James A., Simmonds, Ian
Impact of declining Arctic sea ice on winter snowfall Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jiping Liu, Judith A. Curry, Huijun Wang, Mirong Song, Radley M. Horton
CryoSat-2 estimates of Arctic sea ice thickness and volume Geophysical Research Letters Laxon, Seymour W., Giles, Katharine A., Ridout, Andy L., Wingham, Duncan J., Willatt, Rosemary, Cullen, Robert, Kwok, Ron, Schweiger, Axel, Zhang, Jinlun, Haas, Christian, Hendricks, Stefan, Krishfield, Richard, Kurtz, Nathan et al
High-resolution permafrost modeling in Denali National Park and Preserve National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado Panda, Santosh et al
Resilience and vulnerability of permafrost to climate change Canadian Journal of Forest Research M. Torre Jorgenson, Vladimir Romanovsky, Jennifer Harden, Yuri Shur, Jonathan O’Donnell, Edward A. G. Schuur, Mikhail Kanevskiy, Sergei Marchenko
Permafrost thermal state in the polar Northern Hemisphere during the international polar year 2007–2009: a synthesis Permafrost and Periglacial Processes Romanovsky, Vladimir E., Smith, Sharon L., Christiansen, Hanne H.
Relationship between Evapotranspiration and Land Surface Temperature under Energy- and Water-Limited Conditions in Dry and Cold Climates Advances in Meteorology Zhigang Sun, Qinxue Wang, Ochirbat Batkhishig, and Zhu Ouyang
Meteosat Land Surface Temperature Climate Data Record: Achievable Accuracy and Potential Uncertainties Remote Sensing Anke Duguay-Tetzlaff, Virgílio A. Bento, Frank M. Göttsche, Reto Stöckli, João P. A. Martins, Isabel Trigo, Folke Olesen, Jędrzej S. Bojanowski, Carlos da Camara, and Heike Kunz
Comparison of in-situ, aircraft, and satellite land surface temperature measurements over a NOAA Climate Reference Network site Remote Sensing of Environment Praveena Krishnan, John Kochendorfer, Edward J. Dumas, Pierre C. Guillevic, C. Bruce Baker, Tilden P. Meyers, Borja Martos