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)
The changing nature of flooding across the central United States Nature Climate Change Iman Mallakpour, Gabriele Villarini
Global Warming–Induced Changes in El Niño Teleconnections over the North Pacific and North America American Meteorological Society Zhen-Qiang Zhou, Shang-Ping Xie, Xiao-Tong Zheng, Qinyu Liu, and Hai Wang
Role of the strengthened El Niño teleconnection in the May 2015 floods over the southern Great Plains Geophysical Research Letters Simon Wang, S.‐Y., Huang, Wan‐Ru, Hsu, Huang‐Hsiung, Gillies, Robert R.
Tropical cyclones and climate change* Nature Geoscience Thomas R. Knutson, John L. McBride, Johnny Chan, Kerry Emanuel, Greg Holland, Chris Landsea, Isaac Held, James P. Kossin, A. K. Srivastava, Masato Sugi
An imperative to monitor Earth's energy imbalance Nature Climate Change K. von Schuckmann, M.D. Palmer, K.E. Trenberth, A. Cazenave, D. Chambers, N. Champollion, J. Hansen, S.A. Josey, N. Loeb, P.-P. Mathieu, B. Meyssignac and M. Wild
Contribution of changes in atmospheric circulation patterns to extreme temperature trends Nature Horton DE, Johnson NC, Singh D, Swain DL, Rajaratnam B, Diffenbaugh NS
Anthropogenic contribution to global occurrence of heavy-precipitation and high-temperature extremes Nature Climate Change E. M. Fischer, R. Knutti
Near-term acceleration in the rate of temperature change Nature Climate Change Steven J. Smith, James Edmonds, Corinne A. Hartin, Anupriya Mundra, Katherine Calvin
Highly Variable El Niño–Southern Oscillation Throughout the Holocene Science Kim M. Cobb, Niko Westphal, Hussein R. Sayani, Jordan T. Watson, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, H. Cheng, R. L. Edwards, Christopher D. Charles
ENSO and greenhouse warming Nature Climate Change Wenju Cai, Agus Santoso, Guojian Wang, Sang-Wook Yeh, Soon-Il An, Kim M. Cobb, Mat Collins, Eric Guilyardi, Fei-Fei Jin, Jong-Seong Kug, Matthieu Lengaigne, Michael J. McPhaden, Ken Takahashi, Axel Timmermann, Gabriel Vecchi, Masahiro Watanabe, Lixin Wu
Record Hot Year, 2015 World Weather Attribution
Effects of Drought on Forests and Rangelands in the United States: A Comprehensive Science Synthesis U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service James M. Vose, James S. Clark, Charles H. Luce, Toral Patel-Weynand
A Climatology of Intense Tropical Cyclones in the North Indian Ocean Over the Past Three Decades (1980-2008) Springer Karl Hoarau, Ludovic Chalonge
Future changes in tropical cyclone activity in the North Indian Ocean projected by high-resolution MRI-AGCMs Climate Dynamics Hiroyuki Murakami, Masato Sugi, Akio Kitoh
Monitoring and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones in the Indian Ocean and Climate Change Springer U. C. Mohanty, M. Mohapatra, O. P. Singh, B. K. Bandyopadhyay, L. S. Rathore
A Climatology of Arabian Sea Cyclonic Storms American Meteorological Society Amato T. Evan & Suzana J. Camargo
Industrial-era global ocean heat uptake doubles in recent decades Nature Climate Change Peter J. Gleckler, Paul J. Durack, Ronald J. Stouffer, Gregory C. Johnson, Chris E. Forest
Trade-off between intensity and frequency of global tropical cyclones Nature Climate Change Nam-Young Kang & James B. Elsner
Hurricane Sandy inundation probabilities today and tomorrow American Meteorological Society William Sweet, Chris Zervas, Stephen Gill, and Joseph Park
The Hurricane Sandy person report: disaster exposure, health impacts, economic burden, and social well-being Rutgers University School of Social Work, New York University College of Global Public Health, Columbia University National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Colorado State University Center for Disaster and Risk Analysis David M. Abramson; Donna Van Alst; Alexis Merdjanoff; Rachael Piltch-Loeb; Jaishree Beedasy; Patricia Findley; Lori Ann Peek; Meghan Mordy; Sandra Moroso; Kerrie Ocasio; Yoon Soo Park; Jonathan Sury; Jennifer Tobin-Gurley