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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropogenic Warming of the Oceans: Observations and Model Results | AMS Journal of Climate | David W. Pierce and Tim P. Barnett | |
| Robust Responses of the Hydrological Cycle to Global Warming | AMS Journal of Climate | Isaac M. Held and Brian J. Soden | |
| The impact of natural and anthropogenic forcings on climate and hydrology since 1550 | Climate Dynamics | Simon F. B. Tett, Richard Betts, Thomas J. Crowley, Jonathan Gregory, Timothy C. Johns, Andy Jones, Timothy J. Osborn, Elisabeth Öström, David L. Roberts, Margaret J. Woodage | |
| Reduced probability of ice-free summers for 1.5 °C compared to 2 °C warming | Nature Climate Change | Alexandra Jahn | |
| Ice-free Arctic projections under the Paris Agreement | Nature Climate Change | Michael Sigmond, John C. Fyfe, Neil C. Swart | |
| Patterns And Projections Of High Tide Flooding Along The U.s. Coastline Using A Common Impact Threshold | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Technical Report | William V. Sweet, Greg Dusek, Jayantha Obeysekera, and John J. Marra | |
| Ice Core Records of West Greenland Melt and Climate Forcing | Geophysical Research Letters | K. A. Graeter, E. C. Osterberg, D. G. Ferris, R. L. Hawley, H. P. Marshall, G. Lewis, T. Meehan, F. McCarthy, S. D. Birkel | |
| Changes in North American extremes derived from daily weather data | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | Thomas C. Peterson, Xuebin Zhang, Manola Brunet‐India, Jorge Luis Vázquez‐Aguirre | |
| A Revised U.S. Climate Extremes Index | American Meteorological Society | Karin L. Gleason, Jay H. Lawrimore, David H. Levinson, Thomas R. Karl, and David J. Karoly | |
| California from drought to deluge | Nature Climate Change | S.-Y. Simon Wang, Jin-Ho Yoon, Emily Becker and Robert Gillies | |
| Relative increase of record high maximum temperatures compared to record low minimum temperatures in the U.S. | Geophysical Research Letters | Gerald A. Meehl, Claudia Tebaldi, Guy Walton, David Easterling, Larry McDaniel | |
| Cold-season Tornadoes: Climatological and Meteorological Insights | Weather and Forecasting | Samuel J. Childs, Russ S. Schumacher, and John T. Allen | |
| Model Assessment of Observed Precipitation Trends Over Land Regions: Detectable Human Influences and Possible Low Bias in Model Trends | AMS Journal of Climate | Thomas R. Knutson and Fanrong Zeng | |
| High‐impact hydrologic events and atmospheric rivers in California: An investigation using the NCEI Storm Events Database | Geophysical Research Letters | Allison M. Young, Klint T. Skelly, Jason M. Cordeira | |
| Flood Runoff in Relation to Water Vapor Transport by Atmospheric Rivers Over the Western United States, 1949–2015 | Geophysical Research Letters | Christopher P. Konrad, Michael D. Dettinger | |
| Precipitation in a warming world: Assessing projected hydro-climate changes in California and other Mediterranean climate regions | Scientific Reports | Suraj D. Polade, Alexander Gershunov, Daniel R. Cayan, Michael D. Dettinger, David W. Pierce | |
| Assessing the climate‐scale variability of atmospheric rivers affecting western North America | Geophysical Research Letters | Alexander Gershunov, Tamara Shulgina, F. Martin Ralph et al | |
| Changes in the Climatology, Structure, and Seasonality of Northeast Pacific Atmospheric Rivers in CMIP5 Climate Simulations | Journal of Hydrometeorology | Michael D. Warner and Clifford F. Mass | |
| Hourly storm characteristics along the U.S. West Coast: Role of atmospheric rivers in extreme precipitation | Geophysical Research Letters | M. A. Lamjiri, M. D. Dettinger, F. M. Ralph, Bin Guan | |
| Super Storm Desmond: a process-based assessment | Environmental Research Letters | T Matthews, C Murphy, G McCarthy, C Broderick, R L Wilby |
