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)
Mass Loss of Totten and Moscow University Glaciers, East Antarctica, Using Regionally Optimized GRACE Mascons Geophysical Research Letters Yara Mohajerani, Isabella Velicogna, Eric Rignot
Multi-method attribution analysis of extreme precipitation in Boulder, Colorado Environmental Research Letters Jonathan M Eden, Klaus Wolter, Friederike E L Otto, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh
Human influence on the seasonal cycle of tropospheric temperature Science Benjamin D. Santer, Stephen Po-Chedley, Mark D. Zelinka, Ivana Cvijanovic, Céline Bonfils, Paul J. Durack, Qiang Fu, Jeffrey Kiehl, Carl Mears, Jeffrey Painter, Giuliana Pallotta, Susan Solomon, Frank J. Wentz, Cheng-Zhi Zou
Area change of glaciers across Northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, between ~1999 and ~2015 Journal of Glaciology Adrienne White and Luke Copland
The twenty‐first century Colorado River hot drought and implications for the future Water Resources Research Bradley Udall, Jonathan Overpeck
Early emergence of anthropogenically forced heat waves in the western United States and Great Lakes Nature Climate Change Hosmay Lopez, Robert West, Shenfu Dong, Gustavo Goni, Ben Kirtman, Sang-Ki Lee, Robert Atlas
Recent changes in the fire regime across the North American boreal region—Spatial and temporal patterns of burning across Canada and Alaska Geophysical Research Letters Eric S. Kasischke, Merritt R. Turetsky
Forest ecosystems, disturbance, and climatic change in Washington State, USA Climatic Change Jeremy S. Littell, Elaine E. Oneil, Donald McKenzie, Jeffrey A. Hicke, James A. Lutz, Robert A. Norheim, Marketa M. Elsner
Detection of spatially aggregated changes in temperature and precipitation extremes Geophysical Research Letters E. M. Fischer, R. Knutti
Temperature impacts on the water year 2014 drought in California Geophysical Research Letters Shraddhanand Shukla, Mohammad Safeeq, Amir AghaKouchak, Kaiyu Guan, Chris Funk
Change in the Odds of Warm Years and Seasons Due to Anthropogenic Influence on the Climate AMS Journal of Climate Nikolaos Christidis and Peter A. Stott
Changes in the geopotential height at 500 hPa under the influence of external climatic forcings Geophysical Research Letters Nikolaos Christidis, Peter A. Stott
Climate change and California drought in the 21st century Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Michael E. Mann, Peter H. Gleick
EEE 2016: CMIP5 Model-based Assessment of Anthropogenic Influence on Record Global Warmth during 2016 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Thomas R. Knutson, Jonghun Kam, Fanrong Zeng and Andrew T. Wittenberg
Report on Assessment of Impacts of Climate Change in Japan and Future Challenges Central Environment Council
A new statistical approach to climate change detection and attribution Climate Dynamics Aurélien Ribe, Francis W. Zwiers, Jean-Marc Azaïs, Philippe Naveau
Increased threat of tropical cyclones and coastal flooding to New York City during the anthropogenic era Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Andra J. Reed, Michael E. Mann, Kerry A. Emanuel, Ning Lin, Benjamin P. Horton, Andrew C. Kemp, and Jeffrey P. Donnelly
Influence of Global Warming on Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Intensities during 2015 AMS Journal of Climate Se-Hwan Yang and Nam-Young Kang
Climate change effects on the worst-case storm surge: a case study of Typhoon Haiyan Environmental Research Letters Izuru Takayabu, Kenshi Hibino, Hidetaka Sasaki, Hideo Shiogama, Nobuhito Mori, Yoko Shibutani and Tetsuya Takemi
Increased Frequency of Summer Extreme Heat Waves over Texas Area Tied to the Amplification of Pacific Zonal SST Gradient AMS Journal of Climate Kaiqiang Deng