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
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Extreme cyclone wave climate in the Southwest Pacific Ocean: Influence of the El Niño Southern Oscillation and projected climate change Global and Planetary Change Scott A. Stephens, D.L. Ramsay
Variability in tornado frequency associated with U.S. landfalling tropical cyclones Geophysical Research Letters Belanger, James I., Curry, Judith A., Hoyos, Carlos D.
Greenland Blocking Index 1851-2015: a regional climate change signal International Journal of Climatology Hanna, E., Cropper, T.E., Hall, R.J. and Cappelen, J.
Dynamical link between the Barents-Kara Sea ice and the Arctic Oscillation American Meteorological Society Xiao-Yi Yang, Xiaojun Yuan, and Mingfang Ting
Understanding flood regime changes in Europe: a state-of-the-art assessment Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Hall, J., Arheimer, B., Borga, M., Brázdil, R., Claps, P., Kiss, A., Kjeldsen, T. R., Kriaučiūnienė, J., Kundzewicz, Z. W., Lang, M., Llasat, M. C., Macdonald, N., McIntyre, N., Mediero, L., Merz, B., Merz, R., Molnar, P., Montanari, A. et al
Flood risks and environmental vulnerability — Exploring the synergies between floodplain restoration, water policies and thematic policies European Environment Agency Wouter Vanneuville (EEA), Henk Wolters (Deltares, ETC/ICM) and Mathias Scholz (The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), ETC/ICM), under the guidance of Beate Werner and Ronan Uhel (EEA)
Strong increase in convective precipitation in response to higher temperatures Nature Geoscience Peter Berg, Christopher Moseley, Jan O. Haerter
Four-decade record of pervasive grounding line retreat along the Bellingshausen margin of West Antarctica Geophysical Research Letters Christie, Frazer D.W., Bingham, Robert G., Gourmelen, Noel, Tett, Simon F.B., Muto, Atsuhiro
Trends in indices for extremes in daily temperature and precipitation in central and western Europe, 1901–99 International Journal of Climatology Moberg, Anders, Jones, Philip D.
Climate-change effects on extreme precipitation in central Europe: uncertainties of scenarios based on regional climate models Theoretical and Applied Climatology Jan Kyselý, Romana Beranová
Upper-tropospheric moistening in response to anthropogenic warming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Eui-Seok Chung, Brian Soden, B. J. Sohn, Lei Shi
Understanding climate change projections for precipitation over western Europe with a weather typing approach Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres Santos, João A., Belo‐Pereira, Margarida, Fraga, Helder, Pinto, Joaquim G.
Baseline and projected future carbon storage and greenhouse-gas fluxes in ecosystems of Alaska U.S. Geological Survey Zhiliang Zhu and A. David McGuire eds.
The response of the North American Monsoon to increased greenhouse gas forcing Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres Ben Cook and Richard Seager
Increased record-breaking precipitation events under global warming Climatic Change Jascha Lehmann, Dim Coumou, Katja Frieler
Reversal of ocean acidification enhances net coral reef calcification Nature Rebecca Albright, Lilian Caldeira, Jessica Hosfelt, Lester Kwiatkowski, Jana K. Maclaren, Benjamin M. Mason, Yana Nebuchina, Aaron Ninokawa, Julia Pongratz, Katharine L. Ricke, Tanya Rivlin, Kenneth Schneider, Marine Sesboüé et al
Climate change disables coral bleaching protection on the Great Barrier Reef Science Tracy D. Ainsworth, Scott F. Heron, Juan Carlos Ortiz, Peter J. Mumby, Alana Grech, Daisie Ogawa, C. Mark Eakin, William Leggat
Updated analyses of temperature and precipitation extreme indices since the beginning of the twentieth century: The HadEX2 dataset Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres Donat, M. G., Alexander, L. V., Yang, H., Durre, I., Vose, R., Dunn, R. J. H., Willett, K. M., Aguilar, E., Brunet, M., Caesar, J., Hewitson, B., Jack, C., Klein Tank, A. M. G., Kruger, A. C., Marengo, J., Peterson, T. C., Renom, M. et al
Observed Changes in Surface Atmospheric Energy over Land Geophysical Research Letters Thomas C. Peterson, Katharine M. Willett and Peter W. Thorne
Attribution of observed surface humidity changes to human influence Nature Katharine M. Willett, Nathan P. Gillett, Philip D. Jones, Peter W. Thorne