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)
Interannual variations in snowpack in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem Hydrological Processes Selkowitz, David J., Fagre, Daniel B., Reardon, Blase A.
A century of climate and ecosystem change in Western Montana: what do temperature trends portend? Climatic Change Gregory T. Pederson, Lisa J. Graumlich, Daniel B. Fagre, Todd Kipfer, Clint C. Muhlfeld
Modeled Climate-Induced Glacier Change in Glacier National Park, 1850–2100 BioScience Myrna Hall and Daniel Fagre
Shrinkage of Sperry and Grinnell Glaciers, Glacier National Park, Montana Geographical Review James Dyson
US daily temperature records past, present, and future Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Gerald A. Meehl, Claudia Tebaldi, Dennis Adams-Smith
The Costs of Doing Nothing: A Sea Level Rise Synopsis for the Hampton Roads Region Virginia Coastal Policy Center (VCPC) at William & Mary Law School George Van Houtven, Brooks Depro, Daniel Lapidus, Justine Allpress, Benjamin Lord
Sea ice, rain-on-snow and tundra reindeer nomadism in Arctic Russia Biology Letters Bruce C. Forbes, Timo Kumpula, Nina Meschtyb, Roza Laptander, Marc Macias-Fauria, Pentti Zetterberg, Mariana Verdonen, Anna Skarin, Kwang-Yul Kim, Linette N. Boisvert, Julienne C. Stroeve, Annett Bartsch
The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people Science Brett R. Scheffers, Luc De Meester, Tom C. L. Bridge, Ary A. Hoffmann, John M. Pandolfi, Richard T. Corlett, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Paul Pearce-Kelly, Kit M. Kovacs, David Dudgeon, Michela Pacifici, Carlo Rondinini, Wendy B. Foden, Tara G. Martin et al
The global climate 2011-2015: hot and wild World Meteorological Organization
Observed changes in false springs over the contiguous United States Geophysical Research Letters Peterson, Alexander G., Abatzoglou, John T.
Seasonal Climate Variability and Change in the Pacific Northwest of the United States American Meteorological Society John T. Abatzoglou, David E. Rupp and Philip W. Mote
Observed Arctic sea-ice loss directly follows anthropogenic CO2 emission Science Dirk Notz, Julienne Stroeve
Climate change projections of medicanes with a large multi-model ensemble of regional climate models Global and Planetary Change Raquel Romera, Miguel Ángel Gaertner, Enrique Sánchez, Marta Domínguez, Juan Jesús González-Alemán, Mario Marcello Miglietta
Un/natural Disasters: Communicating Linkages Between Extreme Events and Climate Change World Meteorological Organization Susan Joy Hassol, Simon Torok, Sophie Lewis, and Patrick Luganda
Climate-driven ground-level ozone extreme in the fall over the Southeast United States Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Yuzhong Zhang and Yuhang Wang
Onset of spring starting earlier across the Northern Hemisphere Global Change Biology Schwartz, Marl D., Ahas, Rein, Aasa, Anto
Rapid submarine ice melting in the grounding zones of ice shelves in West Antarctica Nature Communications Ala Khazendar, Eric Rignot, Dustin M. Schroeder, Helene Seroussi, Michael P. Schodlok, Bernd Scheuchl, Jeremie Mouginot, Tyler C. Sutterley, Isabella Velicogna
Vulnerability of African maize yield to climate change and variability during 1961–2010 Food Security Wenjiao Shi, Fulu Tao
Incorporating adaptive responses into future projections of coral bleaching Global Change Biology Logan, Cheryl A., Dunne, John P., Eakin, C. Mark, Donner, Simon D.
Climate change, human land use and future fires in the Amazon Global Change Biology Mark Cochrane and Christopher Barber