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)
Observed and Projected Changes to the Precipitation Annual Cycle Journal of Climate Kate Marvel, Michela Biasutti, Céline Bonfils and Karl E. Taylor, Yochanan Kushnir, Benjamin I. Cook
Amplification of the North American “Dust Bowl” drought through human-induced land degradation Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Benjamin I. Cook, Ron L. Miller, Richard Seager
Polar bear attacks on humans: Implications of a changing climate Wildlife Society Bulletin Wilder, James M., Vongraven, Dag, Atwood, Todd, Hansen, Bob, Jessen, Amalie, Kochnev, Anatoly, York, Geoff, Vallender, Rachel, Hedman, Daryll, Gibbons, Melissa
Contamination of the Arctic reflected in microbial metagenomes from the Greenland ice sheet Environmental Research Letters Aviaja L Hauptmann, Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén, Karen A Cameron, Jacob Bælum, Damian R Plichta, Marlene Dalgaard and Marek Stibal
Increasing frequency and duration of Arctic winter warming events Geophysical Research Letters Graham, Robert M., Cohen, Lana, Petty, Alek A., Boisvert, Linette N., Rinke, Annette, Hudson, Stephen R., Nicolaus, Marcel, Granskog, Mats A.
Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Gerardo Ceballos, Paul R. Ehrlich, Rodolfo Dirzo
Surging wildfire activity in a grassland biome Geophysical Research Letters Donovan, Victoria M., Wonkka, Carissa L., Twidwell, Dirac
North Pacific warming and intense northwestern U.S. wildfires Geophysical Research Letters Liu, Yongqiang
Sensitivity of Portuguese forest fires to climatic, human, and landscape variables: subnational differences between fire drivers in extreme fire years and decadal averages Regional Environmental Change Luís Costa, Kirsten Thonicke, Benjamin Poulter, Franz-W. Badeck
Unprecedented warming revealed from multi-proxy reconstruction of temperature in southern China for the past 160 years Advances in Atmospheric Sciences Yang Liu, Jingyun Zheng, Zhixin Hao, Xuezhen Zhang
Wheat yield loss attributable to heat waves, drought and water excess at the global, national and subnational scales Environmental Research Letters M Zampieri, A Ceglar, F Dentener and A Toreti
Accelerated ice shelf rifting and retreat at Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica Geophysical Research Letters Jeong, Seongsu, Howat, Ian M., Bassis, Jeremy N.
Evaluation of Greenland near surface air temperature datasets The Cryosphere Reeves Eyre, J. E. Jack, Zeng, Xubin
In the observational record half a degree matters Nature Climate Change Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Peter Pfleiderer, Erich M. Fischer
Oceanic and atmospheric forcing of Larsen C Ice-Shelf thinning The Cryosphere Holland, P. R., Brisbourne, A., Corr, H. F. J., McGrath, D., Purdon, K., Paden, J., Fricker, H. A., Paolo, F. S., Fleming, A. H.
Assessing recent trends in high-latitude Southern Hemisphere surface climate Nature Climate Change Julie M. Jones, Sarah T. Gille, Hugues Goosse et al
European Heat, June 2017 World Weather Attribution
Temperature and precipitation regional climate series over the central Pyrenees during 1910–2013 International Journal of Climatology Pérez‐Zanón, Núria, Sigró, Javier, Ashcroft, Linden
Changes in Exposure to Flood Hazards in the United States Annals of the American Association of Geographers Yi Qiang, Nina S. N. Lam, Heng Cai and Lei Zou
Climate change and temperature-linked hatchling mortality at a globally important sea turtle nesting site Global Change Biology Jacques-Olivier Laloë, Jacquie Cozens, Berta Renom, Albert Taxonera, Graeme C. Hays