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)
Changes in meandering of the Northern Hemisphere circulation Environmental Research Letters Giorgia Di Capua, Dim Coumou
Geodetic measurements reveal similarities between post–Last Glacial Maximum and present-day mass loss from the Greenland ice sheet Science Advances Shfaqat A. Khan, Ingo Sasgen, Michael Bevis, Tonie van Dam, Jonathan L. Bamber, John Wahr, Michael Willis, Kurt H. Kjær, Bert Wouters, Veit Helm, Beata Csatho, Kevin Fleming, Anders A. Bjørk, Andy Aschwanden, Per Knudsen, Peter Kuipers Munneke
A database for depicting Arctic sea ice variations back to 1850 Geographical Review Walsh, John E., Fetterer, Florence, Scott Stewart, J., Chapman, William L.
Prolonged California aridity linked to climate warming and Pacific sea surface temperature Scientific Reports Glen M. MacDonald, Katrina A. Moser, Amy M. Bloom, Aaron P. Potito, David F. Porinchu, James R. Holmquist, Julia Hughes, Konstantine V. Kremenetski
Scenarios for future wildfire risk in California: links between changing demography, land use, climate, and wildfire Environmetrics Benjamin P. Bryant and Anthony L. Westerling
Annually resolved late Holocene paleohydrology of the southern Sierra Nevada and Tulare Lake, California Water Resources Research Adams, Kenneth D., Negrini, Robert M., Cook, Edward R., Rajagopal, Seshadri
Global Warming and Hurricanes Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory | NOAA
Intensification of landfalling typhoons over the northwest Pacific since the late 1970s Nature Geoscience Wei Mei, Shang-Ping Xie
Climate and hydrological changes in the northeastern United States: recent trends and implications for forested and aquatic ecosystems Canadian Journal of Forest Research Thomas G. Huntington, Andrew D. Richardson, Kevin J. McGuire, Katharine Hayhoe
Louisiana Downpours, August 2016 Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions Wiel, Karin van der, Kapnick, Sarah B., Oldenborgh, Geert Jan van, Whan, Kirien, Philip, Sjoukje, Vecchi, Gabriel A., Singh, Roop K., Arrighi, Julie, Cullen, Heidi
Recent amplification of the North American winter temperature dipole Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres Singh, Deepti, Swain, Daniel L., Mankin, Justin S., Horton, Daniel E., Thomas, Leif N., Rajaratnam, Bala, Diffenbaugh, Noah S.
A climatological study of the effect of sea-surface temperature on North Atlantic hurricane intensification Physical Geography Erik Fraza and James B. Elsner
Effect of Tree-to-Shrub Type Conversion in Lower Montane Forests of the Sierra Nevada (USA) on Streamflow PLOS ONE Ryan R. Bart, Christina L. Tague, Max A. Moritz
Congenital Brain Abnormalities and Zika Virus: What the Radiologist Can Expect to See Prenatally and Postnatally Radiology Patricia Soares de Oliveira-Szejnfeld, MD, Deborah Levine, MD, Adriana Suely de Oliveira Melo, MD, PhD, Melania Maria Ramos Amorim, MD, PhD, Alba Gean M. Batista et al
Relative effects of climate change and wildfires on stream temperatures: a simulation modeling approach in a Rocky Mountain watershed Climatic Change Lisa Holsinger, Robert E. Keane, Daniel J. Isaak, Lisa Eby, Michael K. Young
Climate Change and Considerations for Fish Health and Fish Health Professionals Fisheries: Vol 41, No 7 Luciano Chiaramonte, Doug Munson & Jesse Trushenski
Physiological stress response of Mountain Whitefish (Prosopium williamsoni) and White Sucker (Catostomus commersoni) sampled along a gradient of temperature and agrichemicals in the Oldman River, Alberta Environmental Biology of Fishes Amie L. Quinn, Joseph B. Rasmussen, Alice Hontela
Possible Association Between Zika Virus Infection and Microcephaly — Brazil, 2015 MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Lavinia Schuler-Faccini
Newly developing rift in Larsen C Ice Shelf presents significant risk to stability The Cryosphere Jansen, D., Luckman, A. J., Cook, A., Bevan, S., Kulessa, B., Hubbard, B., Holland, P. R.
Zika Virus Infects Neural Progenitors in the Adult Mouse Brain and Alters Proliferation Cell Stem Cell Hongda Li, Laura Saucedo-Cuevas, Jose A. Regla-Nava, Guoliang Chai, Nicholas Sheets, William Tang, Alexey V. Terskikh, Sujan Shresta, Joseph G. Gleeson