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
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Climate-change–driven accelerated sea-level rise detected in the altimeter era Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences R. S. Nerem, B. D. Beckley, J. T. Fasullo, B. D. Hamlington, D. Masters, G. T. Mitchum
Trends in Snow Cover and Related Quantities at Weather Stations in the Conterminous United States AMS: Journal of Climate Noah Knowles
The Association between Extremes in North American Snow Cover Extent and United States Temperatures AMS: Journal of Climate Daniel J. Leathers and Dayid A. Robinson
Trends and Variability in Severe Snowstorms East of the Rocky Mountains AMS Journal of Hydrometeorology Jay Lawrimore, Thomas R. Karl, and Mike Squires
Detection and Attribution of Observed Changes in Northern Hemisphere Spring Snow Cover AMS Journal of Climate David E. Rupp and Philip W. Mote
Trends and Extremes in Northern Hemisphere Snow Characteristics Current Climate Change Reports Kenneth E. Kunkel, David A. Robinson, Sarah Champion, Xungang Yin, Thomas Estilow, Rebekah M. Frankson
Relationships between Recent Pan-Arctic Snow Cover and Hydroclimate Trends Journal of Climate Xiaogang Shi, Déry SJ, Groisman PY, Lettenmaier DP
Extent of the rain‐snow transition zone in the western U.S. under historic and projected climate Geophysical Research Letters Klos, P. Zion, Link, Timothy E., Abatzoglou, John T.
Evidence for a continuous decline in lower stratospheric ozone offsetting ozone layer recovery Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Ball, William T., Alsing, Justin, Mortlock, Daniel J., Staehelin, Johannes, Haigh, Joanna D., Peter, Thomas, Tummon, Fiona, Stübi, Rene, Stenke, Andrea, Anderson, John, Bourassa, Adam, Davis, Sean M., Degenstein, Doug, et al
Permafrost Stores a Globally Significant Amount of Mercury Geophysical Research Letters Schuster, Paul F., Schaefer, Kevin M., Aiken, George R. et al
Winter Snow Level Rise in the Northern Sierra Nevada from 2008 to 2017 Water Benjamin J. Hatchett, Orcid, Britta Daudert, Christopher B. Garner, Nina S. Oakley, Aaron E. Putnam , and Allen B. White
Snowmelt response to simulated warming across a large elevation gradient, southern Sierra Nevada, California The Cryosphere Keith N. Musselman, Noah P. Molotch, and Steven A. Margulis
Climate change impacts on maritime mountain snowpack in the Oregon Cascades Hydrology and Earth System Sciences E. A. Sproles, A. W. Nolin, K. Rittger, and T. H. Painter
Ocean acidification affects coral growth by reducing skeletal density Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nathaniel R. Mollica, Weifu Guo, Anne L. Cohen, Kuo-Fang Huang, Gavin L. Foster, Hannah K. Donald, Andrew R. Solow
2017 was the Warmest Year on Record for the Global Ocean Advances in Atmospheric Sciences Lijing Cheng and Jiang Zhu
Precipitation variability increases in a warmer climate Scientific Reports Angeline G. Pendergrass, Reto Knutti, and Flavio Lehner
Massive collapse of two glaciers in western Tibet in 2016 after surge-like instability Nature Geoscience Andreas Kääb, Silvan Leinss, Adrien Gilbert et al
Coral physiology and microbiome dynamics under combined warming and ocean acidification PLOS ONE Andréa G. Grottoli, Paula Dalcin Martins, Michael J. Wilkins, Michael D. Johnston, Mark E. Warner, Wei-Jun Cai, Todd F. Melman, Kenneth D. Hoadley, D. Tye Pettay, Stephen Levas, Verena Schoepf
Exploring the Origins of Snow Drought in the Northern Sierra Nevada, California Earth Interactions Benjamin J. Hatchett and Daniel J. McEvoy
Emergent constraint on equilibrium climate sensitivity from global temperature variability Nature Peter M. Cox, Chris Huntingford, Mark S. Williamson