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)
Unprecedented drought over tropical South America in 2016: significantly under-predicted by tropical SST Scientific Reports Amir Erfanian, Guiling Wang, and Lori Fomenko
Arctic sea-ice decline weakens the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Nature Climate Change Florian Sévellec, Alexey V. Fedorov, Wei Liu
Some coral diseases track climate oscillations in the Caribbean Scientific Reports C. J. Randall, R. van Woesik
Understanding Recent Eastern Horn of Africa Rainfall Variability and Change Journal of Climate Brant Liebmann, Martin P. Hoerling, Chris Funk, Ileana Bladé, Randall M. Dole, Dave Allured, Xiaowei Quan, Philip Pegion, and Jon K. Eischeid
Multi-year predictability of climate, drought, and wildfire in southwestern North America Scientific Reports Yoshimitsu Chikamoto, Axel Timmermann, Matthew J. Widlansky, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Lowell Stott
Diagnosing conditional anthropogenic contributions to heavy Colorado rainfall in September 2013 Weather and Climate Extremes Pardeep Pall, Christina M. Patricola, Michael F. Wehner, Dáithí A. Stone, Christopher J. Paciorek, William D. Collins
The More Extreme Nature of North American Monsoon Precipitation in the Southwestern U.S. as Revealed by a Historical Climatology of Simulated Severe Weather Events Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology Thang M. Luong, Christopher L. Castro, Hsin-I Chang, Timothy Lahmers, David K. Adams, and Carlos A. Ochoa-Moya
Hot dogs: High ambient temperatures impact reproductive success in a tropical carnivore Journal of Animal Ecology Woodroffe, Rosie, Groom, Rosemary, McNutt, J. Weldon
Observed trends in the magnitude and persistence of monthly temperature variability Scientific Reports Timothy M. Lenton, Vasilis Dakos, Sebastian Bathiany, Marten Scheffer
Drought-induced starvation of aardvarks in the Kalahari: an indirect effect of climate change Biology Letters Benjamin Rey, Andrea Fuller, Duncan Mitchell, Leith C. R. Meyer, Robyn S. Hetem
Continued increase of extreme El Nino frequency long after 1.5°C warming stabilization Nature Climate Change Guojian Wang, Wenju Cai, Bolan Gan, Lixin Wu, Agus Santoso, Xiaopei Lin, Zhaohui Chen, Michael J. McPhaden
The unprecedented 2015/16 Tasman Sea marine heatwave Nature Communications Eric C. J. Oliver, Jessica A. Benthuysen, Nathaniel L. Bindoff, Alistair J. Hobday, Neil J. Holbrook, Craig N. Mundy, Sarah E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick
Strong geologic methane emissions from discontinuous terrestrial permafrost in the Mackenzie Delta, Canada Scientific Reports Katrin Kohnert, Andrei Serafimovich, Stefan Metzger, Jörg Hartmann, Torsten Sachs
Surges in trematode prevalence linked to centennial-scale flooding events in the Adriatic Scientific Reports Daniele Scarponi, Michele Azzarone, Michał Kowalewski, John Warren Huntley
Unraveling anthropogenic influence on the changing risk of heat waves in China Geophysical Research Letters Sun, Qiaohong, Miao, Chiyuan, AghaKouchak, Amir, Duan, Qingyun
ENSO and interannual rainfall variability in Uganda: implications for agricultural management International Journal of Climatology Phillips, Jennifer and McIntyre, Beverly
East African Rainfall Anomaly Patterns in Association with El Niño/Southern Oscillation Journal of Hydrologic Engineering Henry K. Ntale and Thian Yew Gan
Predictability of June–September Rainfall in Ethiopia Monthly Weather Review Diriba Korecha and Anthony G. Barnston
Localized rapid warming of West Antarctic subsurface waters by remote winds Nature Climate Change Paul Spence, Ryan M. Holmes, Andrew McC. Hogg, Stephen M. Griffies, Kial D. Stewart, Matthew H. England
Robust Stormwater Management in the Pittsburgh Region: A Pilot Study RAND Jordan R. Fischbach, Kyle Siler-Evans, Devin Tierney, Michael T. Wilson, Lauren M. Cook, Linnea Warren May