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)
The Effects of Climate Change on Seasonal Snowpack and the Hydrology of the Northeastern and Upper Midwest United States Journal of Climate Demaria, Eleonora; Roundy, Joshua; Wi, Sungwook; Palmer, Richard N
Evolution and Distribution of Record-Breaking High and Low Monthly Mean Temperatures American Meteorological Society Amalia Anderson and Alexander Kotinski
Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jennifer K. Balch, Bethany A. Bradley, John T. Abatzoglou, R. Chelsea Nagy, Emily J. Fusco, Adam L. Mahood
Increase in acidifying water in the western Arctic Ocean Nature Climate Change Di Qi, Liqi Chen, Baoshan Chen, Zhongyong Gao, Wenli Zhong, Richard A. Feely, Leif G. Anderson, Heng Sun, Jianfang Chen, Min Chen, Liyang Zhan, Yuanhui Zhang, Wei-Jun Cai
Climate impacts on global hot spots of marine biodiversity Science Advances Francisco Ramírez, Isabel Afán, Lloyd S. Davis, André Chiaradia
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
Decreasing trend in severe weather occurrence over China during the past 50 years Scientific Reports Qinghong Zhang, Xiang Ni, Fuqing Zhang
The Coming Megafloods Scientific American Michael D. Dettinger and B. Lynn Ingram
The 21st century Colorado River hot drought and implications for the future Water Resources Research Udall, Bradley, Overpeck, Jonathan
Attributing physical and biological impacts to anthropogenic climate change Nature Rosenzweig, C., D. Karoly, M. Vicarelli, P. Neofotis, Q. Wu, G. Casassa, A. Menzel, T.L. Root, N. Estrella, B. Seguin, P. Tryjanowski, C. Liu, S. Rawlins, and A. Imeson
Decline in global oceanic oxygen content during the past five decades Nature Sunke Schmidtko, Lothar Stramma, Martin Visbeck
Drainage of Southeast Greenland Firn Aquifer Water through Crevasses to the Bed Frontiers in Earth Science Poinar, Kristin, Joughin, Ian, Lilien, David, Brucker, Ludovic, Kehrl, Laura, Nowicki, Sophie
Species’ traits influenced their response to recent climate change Nature Climate Change Michela Pacifici, Piero Visconti, Stuart H. M. Butchart, James E. M. Watson,Francesca M. Cassola, and Carlo Rondinini
Mass budget of the glaciers and ice caps of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Canada, from 1991 to 2015 Environmental Research Letters Romain Millan, Jeremie Mouginot, Eric Rignot
Changes toward Earlier Streamflow Timing across Western North America American Meteorological Society Iris T. Stewart, Daniel R. Cayan, and Michael D. Dettinger
Changes in the timing of winter–spring streamflows in eastern North America, 1913–2002 Geophysical Research Letters Hodgkins, Glenn A., Dudley, Robert W.
Detection of trends in hydrological extremes for Canadian watersheds Hydrological Processes Burn, Donald H., Sharif, Mohammed, Zhang, Kan
Trends of the timing and volume of streamflow and their relationship with climate Shen, Yanjun; Shen, Yanjun; Fink, Manfred; Flügel, Wolfgang-Albert
Climate change impact on the roles of temperature and precipitation in western U.S. snowpack variability Geophysical Research Letters Scalzitti, Jason, Strong, Courtenay, Kochanski, Adam
Hydrometeorological characteristics of rain‐on‐snow events associated with atmospheric rivers Geophysical Research Letters Guan, Bin, Waliser, Duane E., Ralph, F. Martin, Fetzer, Eric J., Neiman, Paul J.