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)
Recent warming in Greenland in a long-term instrumental (1881–2012) climatic context: I. Evaluation of surface air temperature records Environmental Research Letters Edward Hanna, Sebastian H Mernild, John Cappelen, Konrad Steffen
Arctic sea ice thickness loss determined using subsurface, aircraft, and satellite observations The Cryosphere Lindsay, R., Schweiger, A.
Taking the Measure of the Greenhouse Effect NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Gavin Schmidt
UK Climate Projections science report: Climate change projections James Murphy, David Sexton, Geoff Jenkins, Penny Boorman, Ben Booth, Kate Brown, Robin Clark, Mat Collins, Glen Harris, Lizzie Kendon
The detection of atmospheric rivers in atmospheric reanalyses and their links to British winter floods and the large-scale climatic circulation Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres Lavers, David A., Villarini, Gabriele, Allan, Richard P., Wood, Eric F., Wade, Andrew J.
The Role of Water Vapour in Earth’s Energy Flows Surveys in Geophysics Richard Allan
Recent Trends in Northern and Southern Hemispheric Cold and Warm Pockets National Weather Service and Penn State University Monograph Richard Grumm and Anne Balogh
Playing with Fire: How Climate Change and Development Patterns Are  Contributing to the Soaring Costs of Western Wildfires Union of Concerned Scientists Rachel Cleetus and Kranti Mulik
The relationship of respiratory and cardiovascular hospital admissions to the southern California wildfires of 2003 Occupational and Environmental Medicine R J Delfino, S Brummel, J Wu, H Stern, B Ostro, M Lipsett, A Winer, D H Street, L Zhang, T Tjoa, D L Gillen
The effects of bushfire smoke on respiratory Respirology Martine Dennekamp and Michael Abramson
Numerical simulation of crown fire hazard following bark beetle-caused mortality in lodgepole pine forests Proceedings of 3rd Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference Chad Hoffman, Russell Parsons, Penny Morgan, Ruddy Mell, Chad Hoffman, Russell Parsons, Penny Morgan, Ruddy Mell
Advancing the Science of Climate Change The National Academies Press Pamela A. Matson, Thomas Dietz, Waleed Abdalati, Antonio J. Busalacchi, Jr., Ken Caldeira, Robert W. Corell, Ruth S. Defries, Inez Y. Fung, Steven Gaines, Maria Carmen Lemos, Susanne C. Moser, Richard H. Moss, Edward A. Parson, A. R. Ravishankara, Raymond
New estimates of future changes in extreme rainfall across the UK using regional climate model integrations Journal of Hydrology H.J. Fowler, M. Ekströmb, C.G. Kilsbya, P.D. Jones
Spatio-temporal impact of climate change on the activity and voltinism of the spruce bark beetle, Ips typographus Global Change Biology Anna Maria Jonsson, Gustaf Appelberg, Susanne Harding, Lars Barring
A 1,200-year perspective of 21st century drought in southwestern North America Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Connie A. Woodhouse, David M. Meko, Glen M. MacDonald, Dave W. Stahle, Edward R. Cook
Wildfire smoke and health impacts: A closer look at fire attributes and their marginal effects Journal of Environmental Economics and Management K. Moeltnera, M.-K. Kimb, E. Zhu, W. Yangd
Tools for Assessing the Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Wildfire Regimes in Forests Forests Hety Herawati, José Ramón González-Olabarria, Arief Wijaya, Christopher Martius, Herry Purnomo, and Rubeta Andriani
Flammable Planet: Wildfires and the Social Cost of Carbon Environmental Defense Fund, the Institute for Policy Integrity, and the Natural Resource Defense Council Peter Howard
The Age of Alaskan Wildfires Climate Central Todd Sanford, PhD, Regina Wang, and Alyson Kenward, PhD
The potential impacts of 21st century climatic and population changes on human exposure to the virus vector mosquito Aedes aegypti Climatic Change Andrew J. Monaghan, K. M. Sampson, D. F. Steinhoff, K. C. Ernst, K. L. Ebi, B. Jones, M. H. Hayden