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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Anatomy of an Extreme Event AMS Journal of Climate Martin Hoerling, Arun Kumar, Randall Dole, John W. Nielsen-Gammon, Jon Eischeid, Judith Perlwitz, Xiao-Wei Quan, Tao Zhang, Philip Pegion, and Mingyue Chen
Quantifying the influence of global warming on unprecedented extreme climate events Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Deepti Singh, Justin S. Mankin, Daniel E. Horton, Daniel L. Swain, Danielle Touma, Allison Charland, Yunjie Liu, Matz Haugen, Michael Tsiang, Bala Rajaratnam
The Southern Forest Futures Project: technical report Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-GTR-178. Asheville, NC: USDA-Forest Service Wear, David N., Greis, John G.
Satellite-based assessment of climate controls on US burned area Biogeosciences Discussions D. C. Morton, G. J. Collatz, D. Wang, J. T. Randerson, L. Giglio, and Y. Chen
Divergence of seafloor elevation and sea level rise in coral reef ecosystems Biogeosciences Yates, Kimberly K., Zawada, David G., Smiley, Nathan A., Tiling-Range, Ginger
A tipping point in refreezing accelerates mass loss of Greenland’s glaciers and ice caps Nature Communications B. Noël, W. J van de Berg, S. Lhermitte, B. Wouters, H. Machguth, I. Howat, M. Citterio, G. Moholdt, J. T. M. Lenaerts, M. R. van den Broeke
Antarctic ice shelf potentially stabilized by export of meltwater in surface river Nature Robin E. Bell, Winnie Chu, Jonathan Kingslake, Indrani Das, Marco Tedesco, Kirsty J. Tinto, Christopher J. Zappa, Massimo Frezzotti, Alexandra Boghosian, Won Sang Lee
Widespread movement of meltwater onto and across Antarctic ice shelves Nature Jonathan Kingslake, Jeremy C. Ely, Indrani Das & Robin E. Bell
Large near-term projected snowpack loss over the western United States Nature Communications John C. Fyfe, Chris Derksen, Lawrence Mudryk, Gregory M. Flato, Benjamin D. Santer, Neil C. Swart, Noah P. Molotch, Xuebin Zhang, Hui Wan, Vivek K. Arora, John Scinocca, Yanjun Jiao
Rapid decline in river icings detected in Arctic Alaska: Implications for a changing hydrologic cycle and river ecosystems Geophysical Research Letters Pavelsky, Tamlin M., Zarnetske, Jay P.
River piracy and drainage basin reorganization led by climate-driven glacier retreat Nature Geoscience Daniel H. Shugar, John J. Clague, James L. Best, Christian Schoof, Michael J. Willis, Luke Copland and Gerard H. Roe
Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Tania Schoennagel, Jennifer K. Balch, Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Philip E. Dennison, Brian J. Harvey, Meg A. Krawchuk, Nathan Mietkiewicz, Penelope Morgan, Max A. Moritz, Ray Rasker, Monica G. Turner, Cathy Whitlock
Tropical forcing of Circumpolar Deep Water Inflow and outlet glacier thinning in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica Annals of Glaciology Steig, E.J.; Ding, Q.; Battisti, D.S.; Jenkins, A.
Changes in the freshwater composition of the upper ocean west of the Antarctic Peninsula during the first decade of the 21st century Progress in Oceanography Michael P. Meredith Margaret I. Wallace, Sharon E. Stammerjohn, Ian A. Renfrew, Andrew Clarke, Hugh J. Venables, Deborah R. Shoosmith, Terri Souster, Melanie J. Leng
Eddy Heat Flux in the Southern Ocean: Response to Variable Wind Forcing American Meteorological Society Andrew Hogg, Michael Meredith, Jeffrey Blundell, and Chis Wison
Ocean heat drives rapid basal melt of the Totten Ice Shelf Science Advances Stephen Rich Rintoul, Alessandro Silvano, Beatriz Pena-Molino, Esmee van Wijk, Mark Rosenberg, Jamin Stevens Greenbaum, Donald D. Blankenship
Combustion of available fossil fuel resources sufficient to eliminate the Antarctic Ice Sheet Science Advances Ricarda Winkelmann, Anders Levermann, Andy Ridgwell, Ken Caldeira
Consequences of twenty-first-century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level change Nature Climate Change Peter U. Clark, Jeremy D. Shakun, Shaun A. Marcott, Alan C. Mix, Michael Eby, Scott Kulp, Anders Levermann, Glenn A. Milne, Patrik L. Pfister, Benjamin D. Santer, Daniel P. Schrag, Susan Solomon, Thomas F. Stocker, Benjamin H. Strauss, Andrew J. Weaver, R
Increasing rates of ice mass loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets revealed by GRACE Geophysical Research Letters Velicogna, I.
Ice sheet mass balance and sea level Antarctic Science I. Allison, R.B. Alley, H.A. Fricker, R.H. Thomas, R.C. Warner