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)
Grey swan tropical cyclones Ning Lin and Kerry Emanuel
A Mixed Method to Evaluate Burden of Malaria Due to Flooding and Waterlogging in Mengcheng County, China: A Case Study Plos One Guoyong Ding, Lu Gao, Xuewen Li, Maigeng Zhou, Qiyong Liu, Hongyan Ren, Baofa Jiang
Linkage Between Hourly Precipitation Events and Atmospheric Temperature Changes over China during the Warm Season Scientific Reports Chiyuan Miao, Qiaohong Sun, Alistair G. L. Borthwick, Qingyun Duan
Influence of Fuels, Weather and the Built Environment on the Exposure of Property to Wildfire PLOS ONE Trent D. Penman, Luke Collins, Alexandra D. Syphard, Jon E. Keeley, Ross A. Bradstock
Change in the precipitation intensity of the East Asian summer monsoon projected by CMIP3 models Climate Dynamics Shoji Kusunoki, Osamu Arakawa
Changes in monthly precipitation and flood hazard in the Yangtze River Basin, China International Journal of Climatology Jiang, Tong, Kundzewicz, Zbigniew W., Su, Buda
Climate variability and change in south-eastern Australia South Eastern Australian Climate Initiative Bryson Bates, Paul Holper, Ian Smith
Intensification of hot extremes in the United States Geophysical Research Letters Diffenbaugh, Noah S., Ashfaq, Moetasim
Transient regional climate change: Analysis of the summer climate response in a high-resolution, century-scale ensemble experiment over the continental US Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres Diffenbaugh, Noah S., Ashfaq, Moetasim, Scherer, Martin
Ocean forcing of glacier retreat in the western Antarctic Peninsula Science A. J. Cook, P. R. Holland, M. P. Meredith, T. Murray, A. Luckman, D. G. Vaughan
Human influence on tropical cyclone intensity Science Adam H. Sobel, Suzana J. Camargo, Timothy M. Hall, Chia-Ying Lee, Michael K. Tippett, Allison A. Wing
Projected changes of extreme weather events in the eastern United States based on a high resolution climate modeling system Environmental Research Letters Y Gao, J S Fu, J B Drake, Y Liu, J-F Lamarque
Geographically heterogeneous temporal trends of extreme precipitation in Wisconsin, USA during 1950–2006 International Journal of Climatology Choi, Woonsup, Tareghian, Reza, Choi, Jinmu, Hwang, Chul‐sue
Assessing the Effects of Climate Change on Precipitation and Flood Damage in Wisconsin Journal of Hydrologic Engineering Schuster, Z., Potter, K., and Liebl, D.
Health and Sea Level Rise: Impactson South Florida Sea Level Rise Mapping - Florida Institute for Health Innovation Kristin Palbicke Garces, MPH; Fred Bloetscher, PhD, PE; Diana Mitsova, PhD; Katherine Chung-Bridges, MD, MPH; Karen Hamilton, MA
Quantifying the Effects of Long-Term Climate Change on Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Using a Cloud-Resolving Model: Examples of Two Landfall Typhoons in Taiwan American Meteorological Society Chung-Chieh Wang, Bo-Xun Lin, Cheng-Ta Chen, and Shih-How Lo
Multi-year persistence of the 2014/15 North Pacific marine heatwave Nature Climate Change Emanuele Di Lorenzo and Nathan Mantua
Interdecadal Changes in Summertime Tropical Cyclone Precipitation over Southeast China during 1960–2009 American Meteorological Society Richard C. Y. Li and Wen Zhou
Association of Taiwan’s Rainfall Patterns with Large-Scale Oceanic and Atmospheric Phenomena Advances in Meteorology Yi-Chun Kuo, Ming-An Lee, and Mong-Ming Lu
Trends of extreme precipitation in eastern China and their possible causes Advances in Atmospheric Sciences Run Liu, Shaw Chen Liu, Ralph J. Cicerone, Chein-Jung Shiu, Jun Li, Jingli Wang, Yuanhang Zhang