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)
Determining climate effects on US total agricultural productivity Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Xin-Zhong Liang, You Wu, Robert G. Chambers, Daniel L. Schmoldt, Wei Gao, Chaoshun Liu, Yan-An Liu, Chao Sun, Jennifer A. Kennedy
Large-scale dieback of mangroves in Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria: a severe ecosystem response, coincidental with an unusually extreme weather event Marine and Freshwater Research Norman C. Duke, John M. Kovacs, Anthony D. Griffiths, Luke Preece, Duncan J. E. Hill, Penny van Oosterzee, Jock Mackenzie, Hailey S. Morning, Damien Burrows
The global distribution and dynamics of surface soil moisture Nature Geoscience Kaighin A. McColl, Seyed Hamed Alemohammad, Ruzbeh Akbar, Alexandra G. Konings, Simon Yueh, Dara Entekhabi
Improved estimates of ocean heat content from 1960 to 2015 Science Advances Lijing Cheng, Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo, Tim Boyer, John Abraham, Jiang Zhu
U.S. Heat, February 2017 World Weather Attribution Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Andrew King, Friederike Otto, Gabriel Vecchi, Claudia Tebaldi, and Heidi Cullen
Angry Summer 2016/17: Climate Change Super-Charging Extreme Weather Climate Council Will Steffen, Andrew Stock, Dr David Alexander and Dr Martin Rice
Variability of tornado climatology across the continental United States International Journal of Climatology Farney, Tory J., Dixon, P. Grady
Risk Mitigation Strategies for Tornadoes in the Context of Climate Change and Development Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change G. A. McBean
Quantitative estimates of anthropogenic contributions to extreme national and State monthly, seasonal and annual average temperatures for Australia Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal Sophie C. Lewis, David J. Karoly, and Minghong Yu
Climate-driven thaw of permafrost preserved glacial landscapes, northwestern Canada Geology Steven V. Kokelj, Trevor C. Lantz, Jon Tunnicliffe, Rebecca Segal, Denis Lacelle
Extreme winds and precipitation during landfall of atmospheric rivers Nature Geoscience Duane Waliser, Bin Guan
Aerosol‐driven increase in Arctic sea ice over the middle of the 20th Century Geophysical Research Letters Gagné, Marie‐Ève, Fyfe, John C., Gillett, Nathan P., Polyakov, Igor V., Flato, Gregory M.
Projected 21st century changes in tornado exposure, risk, and disaster potential Climatic Change Stephen M. Strader, Walker S. Ashley, Thomas J. Pingel, Andrew J. Krmenec
The Impact of Vertical Wind Shear on Hail Growth in Simulated Supercells Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Eli J. Dennis and Matthew R. Kumjian
The Realization of Extreme Tornadic Storm Events under Future Anthropogenic Climate Change American Meteorological Society Robert J. Trapp and Kimberly A. Hoogewind
US regional tornado outbreaks and their links to spring ENSO phases and North Atlantic SST variability Environmental Research Letters Sang-Ki Lee, Andrew TWittenberg, David B Enfield, Scott J Weaver, Chunzai Wang and Robert Atlas
Climate change and hailstorm damage: Empirical evidence and implications for agriculture and insurance Resource and Energy Economics W.J.W. Botzena, L.M. Bouwera, J.C.J.M. van den Berg
Variability of tornado occurrence over the continental United States since 1950 Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres Guo, Li, Wang, Kaicun, Bluestein, Howard B.
Changing Northern Hemisphere Snow Seasons American Meteorological Society Gwangyong Choi, David A. Robinson, and Sinkyu Kang
Coupled spatiotemporal variability of temperature and spring phenology in the Eastern United States International Journal of Climatology Liang, Liang, Zhang, Xiaoyang