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
Title Source Date Author(s)
Changes in precipitation with climate change Climate Research Kevin E. Trenberth
Hotspot of accelerated sea-level rise on the Atlantic coast of North America Nature Climate Change Asbury H. Sallenger Jr, Kara S. Doran, Peter A. Howd
Detecting anthropogenic footprints in sea level rise Nature Communications Sönke Dangendorf, Marta Marcos, Alfred Müller, Eduardo Zorita, Riccardo Riva, Kevin Berk, Jürgen Jensen
Increased nuisance flooding along the coasts of the United States due to sea level rise: Past and future Geophysical Research Letters Moftakhari, Hamed R., AghaKouchak, Amir, Sanders, Brett F., Feldman, David L., Sweet, William, Matthew, Richard A., Luke, Adam
Tidally adjusted estimates of topographic vulnerability to sea level rise and flooding for the contiguous United States Environmental Research Letters Strauss, Benjamin H., Ziemlinski, Remik, Weiss, Jeremy L., Jonathan Overpeck
The rising tide: assessing the risks of climate change and human settlements in low elevation coastal zones Environment and Urbanization Gordon McGranahan, Deborah Balk, Bridget Anderson
Response of Extreme Storm Tide Levels to Long-term Sea Level Change Oceans, 2005: Proceedings of Marine Technology Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Chris E. Zervas
2014 State of Nuisance Tidal Flooding NOAA William V. Sweet and John J. Marra
Preliminary peak stage and streamflow data at selected USGS streamgaging stations for the South Carolina flood of October 2015 U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report Feaster, T.D., Shelton, J.M., and Robbins, J.C.
Changes in the phase of the annual cycle of surface temperature Nature A. R. Stine, P. Huybers, I. Y. Fung
Revisiting the trend of the tropical and subtropical Pacific surface latent heat flux during 1977–2006 Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres Li, Gen, Ren, Baohua, Yang, Chengyun, Zheng, Jianqiu
Precipitation in a changing climate - More floods and droughts in the future GEWEX News Kevin Trenberth
Increasing River Discharge to the Arctic Ocean Science Bruce J. Peterson, Robert M. Holmes, James W. McClelland, Charles J. Vörösmarty, Richard B. Lammers, Alexander I. Shiklomanov, Igor A. Shiklomanov, Stefan Rahmstorf
“Great Salinity Anomalies” in the North Atlantic Progress in Oceanography I.M Belkin, S Levitus, J Antonov, S.-A Malmberg
Melting trends over the Greenland ice sheet (1958–2009) from spaceborne microwave data and regional climate models The Cryosphere Fettweis, X., Tedesco, M., Broeke, M. van den, Ettema, J.
Exceptional twentieth-century slowdown in Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation Nature Climate Change Stefan Rahmstorf, Jason E. Box, Georg Feulner, Michael E. Mann, Alexander Robinson, Scott Rutherford & Erik J. Schaffernicht
The North Atlantic Ocean and climate change in the UK and northern Europe Weather Wells, Neil C.
Icebergs not the trigger for North Atlantic cold events Nature Stephen Barker, James Chen, Xun Gong, Lukas Jonkers, Gregor Knorr, David Thornalley
Temporal and Spatial Variability of Great Lakes Ice Cover, 1973–2010 American Meteorological Society Jia Wang, Xuezhi Bai, Haoguo Hu, Anne Clites, Marie Colton, and Brent Lofgren
Sensitivity of Lake-Effect Snowfall to Lake Ice Cover and Temperature in the Great Lakes Region American Meteorological Society David M. Wright, Derek J. Posselt, and Allison L. Steiner