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)
Did Typhoon Haiyan have a new record-minimum pressure? Royal Meteorological Society Karl Hoarau, Mark Lander, Rosalina De Guzman, Chip Guard, Rose Barba
NCA 4: Climate Change Impacts in the United States (Volume I) U.S. Global Change Research Program Donald Wuebbles, David Fahey, and Kathleen Hibbard
Decadal trends in Red Sea maximum surface temperature Scientific Reports V. Chaidez, D. Dreano, S. Agusti, C. M. Duarte, I. Hoteit
Small influence of solar variability on climate over the past millennium Nature Geoscience Andrew P. Schurer, Simon F. B. Tett & Gabriele C. Hegerl
Impact of climate change on New York City’s coastal flood hazard: Increasing flood heights from the preindustrial to 2300 CE Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Andra J. Garner, Michael E. Mann, Kerry A. Emanuel, Robert E. Kopp, Ning Ling, Richard B. Alley, Benjamin P. Horton, Robert M. DeContok, Jeffrey P. Donnelly, and David Pollard
Observed drought indices show increasing divergence across Europe Scientific Reports James H. Stagge, Daniel G. Kingston, Lena M. Tallaksen, David M. Hannah
Expansion of oil palm and other cash crops causes an increase of the land surface temperature in the Jambi province in Indonesia Biogeosciences Clifton R. Sabajo, Guerric le Maire, Tania June, Ana Meijide, Olivier Roupsard, and Alexander Knohl
Channelized Melting Drives Thinning Under a Rapidly Melting Antarctic Ice Shelf Geophysical Research Letters Gourmelen, Noel, Goldberg, Dan N., Snow, Kate, Henley, Sian F., Bingham, Robert G., Kimura, Satoshi, Hogg, Anna E., Shepherd, Andrew, Mouginot, Jeremie, Lenaerts, Jan T. M., Ligtenberg, Stefan R. M., Berg, Willem Jan
A threefold rise in widespread extreme rain events over central India Nature Communications M. K. Roxy, Subimal Ghosh, Amey Pathak, R. Athulya, Milind Mujumdar, Raghu Murtugudde, Pascal Terray & M. Rajeevan
A Dramatic Increase in Annual Average Temperatures for U.S. Cities This Decade Weather Underground | Category 6 Christopher C. Burt
Antarctic Ice Cores Revised 800KYr CO2 Data NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information Bereiter, B.; Eggleston, S.; Schmitt, J.; Nehrbass-Ahles, C.; Stocker, T.F.; Fischer, H.; Kipfstuhl, S.; Chappellaz, J.A.
Natural and anthropogenic changes in atmospheric CO2 over the last 1000 years from air in Antarctic ice and firn Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres Etheridge, D. M., Steele, L. P., Langenfelds, R. L., Francey, R. J., Barnola, J.‐M., Morgan, V. I.
More-Persistent Weak Stratospheric Polar Vortex States Linked to Cold Extremes Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Marlene Kretschmer, Dim Coumou, Laurie Agel, Mathew Barlow, Eli Tziperman, and Judah Cohen
Catastrophe Modelling and Climate Change Lloyds Ralf Toumi and Lauren Restell
Euro-Mediterranean Heat — Summer 2017 World Weather Attribution
Rising heat wave trends in large US cities Natural Hazards Dana Habeeb, Jason Vargo, Brian Stone
U-Th dating reveals regional-scale decline of branching Acropora corals on the Great Barrier Reef over the past century Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Tara R. Clark, George Roff, Jian-xin Zhao, Yue-xing Feng, Terence J. Done, Laurence J. McCook, John M. Pandolfi
Leap‐frog in slow‐motion: divergent responses of tree species and life stages to climatic warming in Great Basin sub‐alpine forests Global Change Biology Smithers, Brian V., North, Malcolm P., Millar, Constance I., Latimer, Andrew M.
Sensitivity of Limiting Hurricane Intensity to SST in the Atlantic from Observations and GCMs James B. Elsner, Sarah E. Strazzo, Thomas H. Jagger, Timothy LaRow, Ming Zhao
Taking the Pulse of the Planet Eos Lijing Cheng, Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo, John Abraham, Tim P. Boyer, Karina von Schuckmann, and Jiang Zhu