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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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 |