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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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Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale	Nature Climate Change	Jan 2, 2020	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	May 28, 2019	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	Nov 3, 2017	Donald Wuebbles, David Fahey, and Kathleen Hibbard
IPCC AR5 WGI: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis	Cambridge University Press	Sep 1, 2013	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	Jun 22, 2015	Kevin E. Trenberth, John T. Fasullo & Theodore G. Shepherd

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Human-caused Indo-Pacific warm pool expansion	Science Advances	Jul 1, 2016	Evan Weller, Seung-Ki Min, Wenju Cai, Francis W. Zwiers, Yeon-Hee Kim, Donghyun Lee
An analysis of long-term relationships among count statistics and metrics of synthetic tropical cyclones downscaled from CMIP5 models	Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres	Aug 8, 2015	Reed, Andra J., Mann, Michael E., Emanuel, Kerry A., Titley, David W.
EEE 2014: Extreme Fire Season in California: A Glimpse Into the Future?	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	Mar 14, 2016	Jin-Ho Yoon, S.-Y. Simon Wang, Robert R. Gillies, Lawr ence Hipps, Ben Kravitz, Philip J. Rasch
Impact of climate change on human infectious diseases: Empirical evidence and human adaptation	Environment International	Oct 18, 2015	Xiaoxu Wu, Yongmei Lu, Sen Zhou, Lifan Chen, Bing Xu
Intensification and poleward shift of subtropical western boundary currents in a warming climate	Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans	Jun 27, 2016	Yang, Hu, Lohmann, Gerrit, Wei, Wei, Dima, Mihai, Ionita, Monica, Liu, Jiping
Incorporating Anthropogenic Influences into Fire Probability Models: Effects of Human Activity and Climate Change on Fire Activity in California	Plos One	Apr 28, 2016	Michael L. Mann, Enric Batllori, Max A. Moritz, Eric K. Waller, Peter Berck, Alan L. Flint, Lorraine E. Flint, Emmalee Dolfi
Trends in meteorological and agricultural droughts in Iran	Theoretical and Applied Climatology	Mar 30, 2014	S. Golian, O. Mazdiyasni, A. AghaKouchak
Invasive Lionfish Drive Atlantic Coral Reef Fish Declines	Plos One	Mar 7, 2012	Stephanie J. Green, John L. Akins, Aleksandra Maljković, Isabelle M. Côté
Human-induced greening of the northern extratropical land surface	Nature Climate Change	Jun 27, 2016	Jiafu Mao, Aurélien Ribes, Binyan Yan, Xiaoying Shi, Peter E. Thornton, Roland Séférian, Philippe Ciais, Ranga B. Myneni, Hervé Douville, Shilong Piao, Zaichun Zhu, Robert E. Dickinson, Yongjiu Dai, Daniel M. Ricciuto, Mingzhou Jin et al
Characterization of increased persistence and intensity of precipitation in the northeastern United States	Geophysical Research Letters	Mar 18, 2015	Guilbert, Justin, Betts, Alan K., Rizzo, Donna M., Beckage, Brian, Bomblies, Arne
Western Wildfires: A Fiery Future	Climate Central	Jun 23, 2016	Alyson Kenward, PhD, Todd Sanford, PhD, James Bronzan
Causes of Greenland temperature variability over the past 4000 yr: implications for northern hemispheric temperature changes	Climate of the Past	Oct 15, 2013	T. Kobashi, K. Goto-Azuma, J. E. Box, C.-C. Gao, and T. Nakaegawa
Variability in the surface temperature and melt extent of the Greenland ice sheet from MODIS	Geophysical Research Letters	May 28, 2013	Hall, Dorothy K., Comiso, Josefino C., DiGirolamo, Nicolo E., Shuman, Christopher A., Box, Jason E., Koenig, Lora S.
Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Air Temperature Variability: 1840–2007	American Meteorological Society	Jul 15, 2009	Jason E. Box, Lei Yang, David H. Bromwich and Le-Sheng Bai
A sensitivity study of annual area change for Greenland ice sheet marine terminating outlet glaciers: 1999–2013	Journal of Glaciology	Mar 31, 2016	Trine S. Jensen, Jason E. Box, Christine S. HvidBerg
Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms	Nature	Sep 28, 2005	James C. Orr, Victoria J. Fabry, Olivier Aumont, Laurent Bopp, Scott C. Doney, Richard A. Feely, Anand Gnanadesikan, Nicolas Gruber, Akio Ishida, Fortunat Joos, Robert M. Key, Keith Lindsay, Ernst Maier-Reimer, Richard Matear, Patrick Monfray et al
Ocean Acidification: Present Conditions and Future Changes in a High-CO	Oceanography	Dec 1, 2009	Richard A. Feely, Scott C. Doney, Sarah R. Cooley
Historical baselines and the future of shell calcification for a foundation species in a changing ocean	Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences	Jun 15, 2016	Catherine A. Pfister, Kaustuv Roy, J. Timothy Wootton, Sophie J. McCoy, Robert T. Paine, Thomas H. Suchanek, Eric Sanford
Characterizing the extreme 2015 snowpack deficit in the Sierra Nevada (USA) and the implications for drought recovery	Geophysical Research Letters	Jun 21, 2016	Margulis, Steven A., Cortés, Gonzalo, Girotto, Manuela, Huning, Laurie S., Li, Dongyue, Durand, Michael
Arctic cut-off high drives the poleward shift of a new Greenland melting record	Nature Communications	Jun 9, 2016	M. Tedesco, T. Mote, X. Fettweis, E. Hanna, J. Jeyaratnam, J. F. Booth, R. Datta, K. Briggs