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)
Climate Change and the Delta San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science Dettinger, Michael, Anderson, Jamie, Anderson, Michael, Brown, Larry R., Cayan, Daniel, Maurer, Edwin
Metapopulation Tracking Juvenile Penguins Reveals an Ecosystem-wide Ecological Trap Current Biology Richard B. Sherley, Katrin Ludynia, Bruce M. Dyer, Tarron Lamont, Azwianewi B. Makhado, Jean-Paul Roux, Kylie L. Scales, Les G. Underhill, Stephen C. Votier
Drought and immunity determine the intensity of West Nile virus epidemics and climate change impacts Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences Sara H. Paull, Daniel E. Horton, Moetasim Ashfaq, Deeksha Rastogi, Laura D. Kramer, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, A. Marm Kilpatrick
The impact of extreme weather and climate change on inland waterway transport Natural Hazards Juha Schweighofer
Cranking Up The Intensity: Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events Climate Council of Australia Limited Professor Will Steffen, Professor Lesley Hughes, Dr David Alexander and Dr Martin Rice
Human exposure and sensitivity to globally extreme wildfire events Nature Ecology & Evolution David M. J. S. Bowman, Grant J. Williamson, John T. Abatzoglou, Crystal A. Kolden, Mark A. Cochrane, Alistair M. S. Smith
Shifts in the seasonal distribution of deaths in Australia, 1968-2007 Pub Med Bennett CM, Dear KB, McMichael AJ
The silent killer: Climate change and the health impacts of extreme heat Climate Council of Australia Lesley Hughes, Elizabeth Hanna and Jacqui Fenwick
Time-Course of Cause-Specific Hospital Admissions During Snowstorms: An Analysis of Electronic Medical Records From Major Hospitals in Boston, Massachusetts American Journal of Epidemiology Bobb, Jennifer F., Ho, Kalon K. L., Yeh, Robert W., Harrington, Lori, Zai, Adrian, Liao, Katherine P., Dominici, Francesca
Anthropogenic and natural contributions to the Southeast Pacific precipitation decline and recent megadrought in central Chile Geophysical Research Letters Boisier, Juan P., Rondanelli, Roberto, Garreaud, René D., Muñoz, Francisca
The 2010-2015 mega-drought: A lesson for the future Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2
Assessment of the current climate and expected climate changes in the Metropolitan Region of Santiago de Chile Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Gonzalo Cortés, Sven Schaller, Maisa Rojas, Lilian Garcia, Aniella Descalzi, Luis Vargas, James McPhee
Regional cooling in a warming world: Recent temperature trends in the southeast Pacific and along the west coast of subtropical South America (1979–2006) Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres Falvey, Mark, Garreaud, René D.
Accelerated greenhouse gases versus slow insolation forcing induced climate changes in southern South America since the Mid-Holocene Climate Dynamics Ana Laura Berman, Gabriel Silvestri, Maisa Rojas, Marcela S. Tonello
Climate change impact on hydroclimate regimes and extremes over Andean basins in the central-southern Chile Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Deniz Bozkurt, Maisa Rojas, Jonás Valdivieso, and Mark Falvey
Atmosphere and Ocean Origins of North American Droughts American Meteorological Society Richard Seager and Martin Hoerling
The Third Oregon Climate Assessment Report – January 2017 Oregon Climate Change Research Institute Dalton, M.M., K.D. Dello, L. Hawkins, P.W. Mote, and D.E. Rupp
Climate change, impacts and vulnerability in Europe 2016 European Environment Agency
Will Global Warming Make Hurricane Forecasting More Difficult? American Meteorological Society Kerry Emanuel
EEE 2015: Influences of Natural Variability and Anthropogenic Forcing on the Extreme 2015 Accumulated Cyclone Energy in the Western North Pacific Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Wei Zhang, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Hiroyuki Murakami, Thomas L. Delworth, Karen Paffendorf, Liwei Jia, Gabriele Villarin, Rich Gudgel, Fanrong Zeng, and Xiaosong Yang