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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Decreasing cloud cover drives the recent mass loss on the Greenland Ice Sheet Science Advances Stefan Hofer, Andrew J. Tedstone, Xavier Fettweis, Jonathan L. Bamber
Surface melt and ponding on Larsen C Ice Shelf and the impact of föhn winds | Antarctic Science | Cambridge Core Antarctic Science Adrian Luckman, Andrew Elvidge, Daniela Jansen, Bernd Kulessa, Peter Kuipers Munneke, John King, Nicholas E. Barrand
Brief Communication: Newly developing rift in Larsen C Ice Shelf presents significant risk to stability The Cryosphere D. Jansen; A. J. Luckman; A. Cook; S. Bevan; B. Kulessa; B. Hubbard; P. R. Holland
Ice and firn heterogeneity within Larsen C Ice Shelf from borehole optical televiewing Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface Ashmore, David W., Hubbard, Bryn, Luckman, Adrian, Kulessa, Bernd, Bevan, Suzanne, Booth, Adam, Munneke, Peter Kuipers, O'Leary, Martin, Sevestre, Heidi, Holland, Paul R.
Fracture propagation and stability of ice shelves governed by ice shelf heterogeneity Geophysical Research Letters Borstad, Chris, McGrath, Daniel, Pope, Allen
Centuries of intense surface melt on Larsen C Ice Shelf The Cryosphere Discussions Bevan, Suzanne, Luckman, Adrian, Hubbard, Bryn, Kulessa, Bernd, Ashmore, David, Kuipers Munneke, Peter, O'Leary, Martin, Booth, Adam, Sevestre, Heidi, McGrath, Daniel
WMO Presentation: Foehn jets and their implications for the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica Elvidge
Foehn jets over the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Elvidge, Andrew D., Renfrew, Ian A., King, John C., Orr, Andrew, Lachlan‐Cope, Tom A., Weeks, Mark, Gray, Sue L.
Increasing Transnational Sea Ice Exchange in a Changing Arctic Ocean Earth's Future Robert Newton, Stephanie Pfirman, Bruno Tremblay, and Patricia DeRepentigny
Absence of 21st century warming on Antarctic Peninsula consistent with natural variability Nature John Turner, Hua Lu, Ian White, John C. King, Tony Phillips, J. Scott Hosking, Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Gareth J. Marshall, Robert Mulvaney, Pranab Deb
Lightning as a major driver of recent large fire years in North American boreal forests Nature Climate Change Sander Veraverbeke, Brendan M. Rogers, Mike L. Goulden, Randi R. Jandt, Charles E. Miller, Elizabeth B. Wiggins, James T. Randerson
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.
Coastal sea level rise with warming above 2 °C Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Svetlana Jevrejeva, Luke P. Jackson, Riccardo E. M. Riva, Aslak Grinsted, John C. Moore
Reassessment of 20th century global mean sea level rise Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Sönke Dangendorf, Marta Marcos, Guy Wöppelmann, Clinton P. Conrad, Thomas Frederikse, Riccardo Riva
The increasing rate of global mean sea-level rise during 1993–2014 Nature Climate Change Xianyao Chen, Xuebin Zhang, John A. Church, Christopher S. Watson, Matt A. King, Didier Monselesan, Benoit Legresy, Christopher Harig
Contribution of changes in atmospheric circulation patterns to extreme temperature trends Nature Daniel E. Horton, Nathaniel C. Johnson, Deepti Singh, Daniel L. Swain, Bala Rajaratnam, Noah S. Diffenbaugh
The effects of climate change and extreme wildfire events on runoff erosion over a mountain watershed Journal of Hydrology Gregory K. Gould, Mingliang Liu, Michael E. Barber, Keith A. Cherkauer, Peter R. Robichaud, and Jennifer C. Adam
Inversion of basal friction in Antarctica using exact and incomplete adjoints of a higher‐order model Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface Morlighem, M., Seroussi, H., Larour, E., Rignot, E.
Ice-Shelf Melting Around Antarctica Science E. Rignot, S. Jacobs, J. Mouginot, B. Scheuchl
Explaining Extreme Events of 2014 from a Climate Perspective American Meteorological Society, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Stephanie C. Herring, Martin P. Hoerling, James P. Kossin, Thomas C. Peterson, and Peter A. Stott