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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rising Waters: Climate Change Impacts and Toxic Risks to Lake Michigan’s Shoreline Communities | Environmental Law & Policy Center | Kiana Courtney, Jill Geiger, Joshua Gonzalez, Pouyan Hatami, Maya Peña-Lobel, Lena G. Reynolds, Lucas Stephens, and Tanmay Shukla | |
| Climate change reshuffles northern species within their niches | Nature Climate Change | Laura H. Antão, Benjamin Weigel, Giovanni Strona, Maria Hällfors, Elina Kaarlejärvi, Tad Dallas, Øystein H. Opedal, Janne Heliölä, Heikki Henttonen, Otso Huitu, Erkki Korpimäki, Mikko Kuussaari, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Reima Leinonen, Andreas Lindén et al. | |
| Decadal-scale phenology and seasonal climate drivers of migratory baleen whales in a rapidly warming marine ecosystem | Global Change Biology | Daniel E. Pendleton, Morgan W. Tingley,Laura C. Ganley,Kevin D. Friedland,Charles Mayo,Moira W. Brown,Brigid E. McKenna,Adrian Jordaan,Michelle D. Staudinger | |
| The intensification of winter mid-latitude storm tracks in the Southern Hemisphere | Nature Climate Change | Rei Chemke, Yi Ming & Janni Yuval | |
| The role of human-induced climate change in heavy rainfall events such as the one associated with Typhoon Hagibis | Climatic Change | Sihan Li & Friederike E. L. Otto | |
| The heatwave in North India and Pakistan in April-May 2022 | UK Met Office | Nikolaos Christidis | |
| 5th National Risk Assessment: Fueling the Flames | First Street Foundation | ||
| The 2021 western North America heat wave among the most extreme events ever recorded globally | Science Advances | Vikki Thompson, Alan T. Kennedy-Asser, Emily Vosper, Y. T. Eunice Lo, Chris Huntingford, Oliver Andrews, Matthew Collins, Gabrielle C. Hegerland, and Dann Mitchell | |
| Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk | Colin J. Carlson, Gregory F. Albery, Cory Merow, Christopher H. Trisos, Casey M. Zipfel, Evan A. Eskew, Kevin J. Olival, Noam Ross & Shweta Bansal | ||
| Extreme Atlantic hurricane seasons made twice as likely by ocean warming | Journal of Weather and Climate Dynamics | Peter Pfleiderer , Shruti Nath, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner | |
| A Multidataset Assessment of Climatic Drivers and Uncertainties of Recent Trends in Evaporative Demand across the Continental United States | Journal of Hydrometeorology | Christine M. Albano, John T. Abatzoglou, Daniel J. McEvoy, Justin L. Huntington, Charles G. Morton, Michael D. Dettinger, and Thomas J. Ott | |
| Climate change affects bird nesting phenology: Comparing contemporary field and historical museum nesting records | Journal of Animal Ecology | John M. Bates, Mason Fidino, Laurel Nowak-Boyd, Bill M. Strausberger, Kenneth A. Schmidt, and Christopher J. Whelan | |
| Monitoring global carbon emissions in 2021 | Nature Reviews Earth & Environment | Zhu Liu, Zhu Deng, Steven J. Davis, Clement Giron & Philippe Ciais | |
| Emergence of climate change in the tropical Pacific | Jun Ying, Matthew Collins, Wenju Cai, Axel Timmermann, Ping Huang, Dake Chen & Karl Stein | ||
| Growing impact of wildfire on western US water supply | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | A. Park Williams, Ben Livneh, Karen A. McKinnon, Winslow D. Hansen, Justin S. Mankin, Benjamin I. Cook, Jason E. Smerdon, Arianna M. Varuolo-Clarke, Nels R. Bjarke, Caroline S. Juang, and Dennis P. Lettenmaier | |
| Association of Tropical Cyclones With County-Level Mortality in the US | Journal of the American Medical Association | Robbie M. Parks, PhD; Jaime Benavides, PhD G. Brooke Anderson, PhD; Rachel C. Nethery, PhD; Ana Navas-Acien, PhD; Francesca Dominici, PhD; Majid Ezzati, PhD; Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, ScD | |
| Severe Lake Heatwaves Attributable to Human-Induced Global Warming | Geophysical Research Letters | R. Iestyn Woolway, Clément Albergel, Thomas L. Frölicher, and Marjorie Perroud | |
| Turbidity and fecal indicator bacteria in recreational marine waters increase following the 2018 Woolsey Fire | Scientific Reports | Marisol Cira, Anisha Bafna, Christine M. Lee, Yuwei Kong, Benjamin Holt, Luke Ginger, Kerry Cawse-Nicholson, Lucy Rieves & Jennifer A. Jay | |
| Timing of emergence of modern rates of sea-level rise by 1863 | Nature Communications | Jennifer S. Walker, Robert E. Kopp, Christopher M. Little & Benjamin P. Horton | |
| Decreasing rainfall frequency contributes to earlier leaf onset in northern ecosystems | Nature Climate Change | Jian Wang, Desheng Liu, Philippe Ciais & Josep Peñuelas |
