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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Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale Nature Climate Change Jan 2, 2020 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 May 28, 2019 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 Nov 3, 2017 Donald Wuebbles, David Fahey, and Kathleen Hibbard
Attribution of climate extreme events Nature Climate Change Jun 22, 2015 Kevin E. Trenberth, John T. Fasullo & Theodore G. Shepherd
IPCC AR5 WGI: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis Cambridge University Press Sep 1, 2013 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.)
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Twentieth-century hydroclimate changes consistent with human influence Nature May 1, 2019 Kate Marvel, Benjamin I. Cook, Céline J. W. Bonfils, Paul J. Durack, Jason E. Smerdon, A. Park Williams
Extreme weather events in early summer 2018 connected by a recurrent hemispheric wave-7 pattern Environmental Research Letters Apr 26, 2019 Kai Kornhuber, Scott Osprey, Dim Coumou, Stefan Petri, Vladimir Petoukhov, Stefan Rahmstorf, Lesley Gray
Global Issue, Local Risk Colorado Health Institute Apr 22, 2019 CHI Staff
Global glacier mass changes and their contributions to sea-level rise from 1961 to 2016 Nature Apr 18, 2019 M. Zemp, M. Huss, E. Thibert, N. Eckert, R. McNabb, J. Huber, M. Barandun, H. Machguth, S. U. Nussbaumer, I. Gärtner-Roer, L. Thomson, F. Paul, F. Maussion, S. Kutuzov, J. G. Cogley
Recent global warming as confirmed by AIRS Environmental Research Letters Apr 17, 2019 J Susskind, G A Schmidt, J N Lee, L Iredell
Extremes of summer climate trigger thousands of thermokarst landslides in a High Arctic environment Nature Communications Apr 2, 2019 Antoni G. Lewkowicz, Robert G. Way
China Blue Book on Climate Change China's National Climate Center Apr 2, 2019
Interruption of two decades of Jakobshavn Isbrae acceleration and thinning as regional ocean cools Nature Geoscience Mar 25, 2019 Ala Khazendar, Ian G. Fenty, Dustin Carroll, Alex Gardner, Craig M. Lee, Ichiro Fukumori, Ou Wang, Hong Zhang, Hélène Seroussi, Delwyn Moller, Brice P. Y. Noël, Michiel R. van den Broeke, Steven Dinardo, Josh Willis
Wildfire smoke exposure under climate change: impact on respiratory health of affected communitie Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine Mar 25, 2019 Reid CE and Maestas MM
Widespread shifts in the coastal biota of northern California during the 2014–2016 marine heatwaves Scientific Reports Mar 12, 2019 Eric Sanford, Jacqueline L. Sones, Marisol García-Reyes, Jeffrey H. R. Goddard, John L. Largier
Increased Greenland melt triggered by large-scale, year-round cyclonic moisture intrusions The Cryosphere Mar 7, 2019 Oltmanns, Marilena, Straneo, Fiammetta, Tedesco, Marco
Extreme Rainfall Associated With Hurricane Maria Over Puerto Rico and Its Connections to Climate Variability and Change Geophysical Research Letters Mar 4, 2019 David Keellings, José J. Hernández Ayala
Past and future spread of the arbovirus vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus Nature Microbiology Mar 4, 2019 Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Robert C. Reiner, Oliver J. Brady et al.
Impacts of historical warming on marine fisheries production Science Mar 1, 2019 Christopher M. Free, James T. Thorson, Malin L. Pinsky, Kiva L. Oken, John Wiedenmann, Olaf P. Jensen
Impacts of historical warming on marine fisheries production Science Mar 1, 2019 Christopher M. Free, James T. Thorson, Malin L. Pinsky, Kiva L. Oken, John Wiedenmann, Olaf P. Jensen
A review and analysis of possible changes to the climatology of tornadoes in the United States Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment Feb 25, 2019 Todd W Moore, Tiffany A DeBoer
Recent increases in tropical cyclone intensification rates Nature Communications Feb 7, 2019 Kieran T. Bhatia, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Thomas R. Knutson, Hiroyuki Murakami, James Kossin, Keith W. Dixon, Carolyn E. Whitlock
Large influence of soil moisture on long-term terrestrial carbon uptake Nature Jan 23, 2019 Julia K. Green, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Alexis M. Berg, Kirsten L. Findell, Stefan Hagemann, David M. Lawrence, Pierre Gentine
Climate, conflict and forced migration Global Environmental Change Jan 23, 2019 Guy J. Abel, Michael Brottrager, Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Raya Muttarak
Permafrost is warming at a global scale Jan 16, 2019 Boris K. Biskaborn, Sharon L. Smith, Jeannette Noetzli et al

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