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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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Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale	Nature Climate Change	Jan 2, 2020	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	May 28, 2019	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	Nov 3, 2017	Donald Wuebbles, David Fahey, and Kathleen Hibbard
IPCC AR5 WGI: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis	Cambridge University Press	Sep 1, 2013	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	Jun 22, 2015	Kevin E. Trenberth, John T. Fasullo & Theodore G. Shepherd

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A Reconciled Estimate of Ice-Sheet Mass Balance	Science	Nov 30, 2012	Andrew Shepherd, Erik R. Ivins, Geruo A, Valentina R. Barletta, Mike J. Bentley, Srinivas Bettadpur, Kate H. Briggs, David H. Bromwich, René Forsberg, Natalia Galin, Martin Horwath, Stan Jacobs, Ian Joughin et al
Non‐annular atmospheric circulation change induced by stratospheric ozone depletion and its role in the recent increase of Antarctic sea ice extent	Geophysical Research Letters	Apr 23, 2009	Turner, John, Comiso, Josefino C., Marshall, Gareth J., Lachlan‐Cope, Tom A., Bracegirdle, Tom, Maksym, Ted, Meredith, Michael P., Wang, Zhaomin, Orr, Andrew
Increasing Antarctic Sea Ice under Warming Atmospheric and Oceanic Conditions		Sep 18, 2006	Jiinlun Zhang
Interpretation of Recent Southern Hemisphere Climate Change	Science	May 3, 2002	David W. J. Thompson, Susan Solomon
Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year	Nature	Jan 22, 2009	Eric J. Steig, David P. Schneider, Scott D. Rutherford, Michael E. Mann, Josefino C. Comiso, Drew T. Shindell
Marine Ice Sheet Collapse Potentially Underway for the Thwaites Glacier Basin, West Antarctica	Science	May 12, 2014	Ian Joughin, Benjamin E. Smith, Brooke Medley
Widespread, rapid grounding line retreat of Pine Island, Thwaites, Smith, and Kohler glaciers, West Antarctica, from 1992 to 2011	Geophysical Research Letters	May 27, 2014	Rignot, E., Mouginot, J., Morlighem, M., Seroussi, H., Scheuchl, B.
Multidecadal warming of Antarctic waters	Science	Dec 5, 2014	Sunke Schmidtko, Karen J. Heywood, Andrew F. Thompson, Shigeru Aoki
Seasonal evolution of supraglacial lakes on an East Antarctic outlet glacier	Geophysical Research Letters	Aug 24, 2016	Langley, Emily S., Leeson, Amber A., Stokes, Chris R., Jamieson, Stewart S. R.
The darkening of the Greenland ice sheet: trends, drivers, and projections (1981–2100)	The Cryosphere	Mar 3, 2016	Tedesco, Marco, Doherty, Sarah, Fettweis, Xavier, Alexander, Patrick, Jeyaratnam, Jeyavinoth, Stroeve, Julienne
Antarctic ice-sheet loss driven by basal melting of ice shelves	Nature	Apr 25, 2012	H. D. Pritchard, S. R. M. Ligtenberg, H. A. Fricker, D. G. Vaughan, M. R. van den Broeke, L. Padman
Boundary condition of grounding lines prior to collapse, Larsen-B Ice Shelf, Antarctica	Science	Sep 12, 2014	M. Rebesco, E. Domack, F. Zgur, C. Lavoie, A. Leventer, S. Brachfeld, V. Willmott, G. Halverson, M. Truffer, T. Scambos, J. Smith, E. Pettit
Climate change and coral reef bleaching: An ecological assessment of long-term impacts, recovery trends and future outlook	Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science	Dec 10, 2008	Andrew C. Baker, Peter W. Glynn, Bernhard Riegl
Multi-century evaluation of recovery from strong precipitation deficits in California	American Meteorological Society	Apr 10, 2017	Eugene. R. Wahl, Henry F. Diaz, Russell S. Vose, and Wendy S. Gross
Climate Change: A Deadly Threat to Coral Reefs		Apr 12, 2017	The Climate Council
Bed elevation of Jakobshavn Isbræ, West Greenland, from high‐resolution airborne gravity and other data	Geophysical Research Letters	Apr 3, 2017	An, L., Rignot, E., Elieff, S., Morlighem, M., Millan, R., Mouginot, J., Holland, D. M., Holland, D., Paden, J.
Dynamics of carbonate chemistry, production, and calcification of the Florida Reef Tract (2009–2010): Evidence for seasonal dissolution	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	May 14, 2016	Muehllehner, Nancy; Langdon, Chris; Venti, Alyson; Kadko, David
The effects of drought and fire in the extirpation of an abundant semi-aquatic turtle from a lacustrine environment in the southwestern USA	Knowledge & Management of Aquatic Ecosystems	Apr 10, 2017	Jeffrey Edward Lovich, Mari Quillman, Brian Zitt, Adam Schroeder, David Earl Green, Charles Yackulic, Paul Gibbons, Eric Goode
Trends in heat-related mortality in the United States, 1975-2004	Natural Hazards	Jul 1, 2009	Sheridan SC, Kalkstein AJ, Kalkstein LS
El Niño and climate change—contributing factors in the dispersal of Zika virus in the Americas? - The Lancet	The Lancet	Feb 1, 2016	Shlomit Paz, Jan C Semenza