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)
Explaining Extreme Events of 2013 from a Climate Perspective American Meteorological Society, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Explaining Extreme Events of 2011 from a Climate Perspective American Meteorological Society, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Peterson, Stott, and Herring
Fatalities in the United States from Atlantic Tropical Cyclones: New Data and Interpretation American Meteorological Society Edward N. Rappaport
An analysis of coastal and inland fatalities in landfalling US hurricanes Natural Hazards Jeffrey Czajkowski, Kevin Simmons, Daniel Sutter
2016 State of U.S. High Tide Flooding and a 2017 Outlook National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services and National Centers for Environmental Information William V. Sweet, John J. Marra, Gregory Dusek
Diurnal asymmetry to the observed global warming International Journal of Climatology Davy, Richard, Esau, Igor, Chernokulsky, Alexander, Outten, Stephen, Zilitinkevich, Sergej
A New Subsidence Map for Coastal Louisiana GSA Today Jaap H. Nienhuis, Torbjörn E. Törnqvist, Krista L. Jankowski, Anjali M. Fernandes, Molly E. Keog
January 2016 extensive summer melt in West Antarctica favoured by strong El Niño Nature Communications Julien P. Nicolas, Andrew M. Vogelmann, Ryan C. Scott, Aaron B. Wilson, Maria P. Cadeddu, David H. Bromwich, Johannes Verlinde, Dan Lubin, Lynn M. Russell, Colin Jenkinson, Heath H. Powers, Maciej Ryczek, Gregory Stone, Jonathan D. Wille
The safety band of Antarctic ice shelves Nature Climate Change Johannes Jakob Fürst, Gaël Durand, Fabien Gillet-Chaulet, Laure Tavard, Melanie Rankl, Matthias Braun, Olivier Gagliardini
Marine ice regulates the future stability of a large Antarctic ice shelf Nature Communications Bernd Kulessa, Daniela Jansen, Adrian J. Luckman, Edward C. King, Peter R. Sammonds
Mechanisms driving variability in the ocean forcing of Pine Island Glacier Nature Communications Benjamin G. M. Webber, Karen J. Heywood, David P. Stevens, Pierre Dutrieux, E. Povl Abrahamsen, Adrian Jenkins, Stanley S. Jacobs, Ho Kyung Ha, Sang Hoon Lee, Tae Wan Kim
Thirty years of elevation change on Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves from multimission satellite radar altimetry Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans Fricker, Helen Amanda, Padman, Laurie
Overview of areal changes of the ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula over the past 50 years The Cryosphere Cook, A. J., Vaughan, D. G.
Stability of the Larsen B ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula during the Holocene epoch Nature Eugene Domack, Diana Duran, Amy Leventer, Scott Ishman, Sarah Doane, Scott McCallum, David Amblas, Jim Ring, Robert Gilbert & Michael Prentice
Accelerated West Antarctic ice mass loss continues to outpace East Antarctic gains Earth and Planetary Science Letters Christopher Harig and Frederik J. Simons
Recent regional climate cooling on the Antarctic Peninsula and associated impacts on the cryosphere Science of The Total Environment M. Oliva, F. Navarro, F. Hrbáček, A. Hernández, D. Nývlt, P. Pereira, J. Ruiz-Fernández, & R. Trigo
Airway epithelial anion secretion and barrier function following exposure to fungal aeroallergens: Role of oxidative stress American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology Nathan A. Zaidman, Kelly E. O'Grady, Nandadevi Patil, Francesca Milavetz, Peter J Maniak, Hirohito Kita, Scott M. O'Grady
Increasing probability of mortality during Indian heat waves Science Advances Omid Mazdiyasni, Amir AghaKouchak, Steven J. Davis, Shahrbanou Madadgar, Ali Mehran, Elisa Ragno, Mojtaba Sadegh, Ashmita Sengupta, Subimal Ghosh, C. T. Dhanya, Mohsen Niknejad
Extreme temperatures in Southeast Asia caused by El Niño and worsened by global warming Nature Communications Kaustubh Thirumalai, Pedro N. DiNezio, Yuko Okumura, Clara Deser
Increased Arctic sea ice drift alters adult female polar bear movements and energetics Global Change Biology Durner, George M., Douglas, David C., Albeke, Shannon E., Whiteman, John P., Amstrup, Steven C., Richardson, Evan, Wilson, Ryan R., Ben‐David, Merav