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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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Title	Source	Date	Author(s)
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

Title	Source	Date	Author(s)
Estimating Causal Effects of Long-Term PM2.5 Exposure on Mortality in New Jersey	Environmental Health Perspectives	Apr 15, 2016	Yan Wang, Itai Kloog, Brent A. Coull, Anna Kosheleva, Antonella Zanobetti, and Joel D. Schwartz
Forced and unforced ocean temperature changes in Atlantic and Pacific tropical cyclogenesis regions	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	Jul 24, 2006	B. D. Santer, T. M. L. Wigley, P. J. Gleckler, C. Bonfils, M. F. Wehner, K. AchutaRao, T. P. Barnett, J. S. Boyle, W. Brüggemann, M. Fiorino, N. Gillett, J. E. Hansen, P. D. Jones, S. A. Klein, G. A. Meehl, S. C. B. Raper, R. W. Reynolds et al
Stratified statistical models of North Atlantic basin-wide and regional tropical cyclone counts	Journal of Geophysical Research	Sep 19, 2012	Michael E. Kozar, Michael E. Mann, Suzana J. Camargo, James P. Kossin, and Jenni L. Evans
Assessing “Dangerous Climate Change”: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature	Plos One	Dec 3, 2013	James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha, Makiko Sato, Valerie Masson-Delmotte, Frank Ackerman, David J. Beerling, Paul J. Hearty, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Shi-Ling Hsu, Camille Parmesan, Johan Rockstrom, Eelco J. Rohling, Jeffrey Sachs, Pete Smith et al
Global imprint of climate change on marine life	Nature Climate Change	Sep 30, 2013	Elvira S. Poloczanska, Christopher J. Brown, William J. Sydeman, Wolfgang Kiessling, David S. Schoeman, Pippa J. Moore, Keith Brander, John F. Bruno, Lauren B. Buckley, Michael T. Burrows, Carlos M. Duarte, Benjamin S. Halpern et al
The Impact of Climate Change on the World’s Marine Ecosystems	Science	Jun 18, 2010	Ove Hoegh-Guldberg and John F. Bruno
Climate related sea-level variations over the past two millennia	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	Mar 25, 2011	Andrew C. Kemp, Benjamin P. Horton, Jeffrey P. Donnelly, Michael E. Mann, Martin Vermeer, Stefan Rahmstorf
Urban heat island impacts on plant phenology: intra-urban variability and response to land cover	Environmental Research Letters	May 20, 2016	Samuel C Zipper, Jason Schatz, Aditya Singh, Christopher J Kucharik, Philip A Townsend, Steven P Loheide II
The Neglected Dimension of Global Security: A Framework to Counter Infectious Disease Crises	Commission on a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future (GHRF Commission)	Jan 13, 2016
On the Seasonal Occurrence and Abundance of the Zika Virus Vector Mosquito Aedes Aegypti in the Contiguous United States	PLOS Currents Outbreaks	Mar 16, 2016	Andrew J. Monaghan, Cory W. Morin, Daniel F. Steinhoff, Olga Wilhelmi, Mary Hayden, Dale A. Quattrochi, Michael Reiskind, Alun L. Lloyd, Kirk Smith, Chris A. Schmidt, Paige E. Scalf, Kacey Ernst
Does the mid-Atlantic United States sea level acceleration hot spot reflect ocean dynamic variability?	Geophysical Research Letters	Aug 6, 2013	Kopp, Robert E.
Accelerated sea level rise and Florida Current transport	Ocean Science	Nov 1, 2015	J. Park and W. Sweet
Human influence on climate in the 2014 southern England winter floods and their impacts	Nature Climate Change	Feb 1, 2016	Nathalie Schaller, Alison L. Kay, Rob Lamb, Neil R. Massey, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Friederike E. L. Otto, Sarah N. Sparrow, Robert Vautard, Pascal Yiou, Ian Ashpole, Andy Bowery, Susan M. Crooks, Karsten Haustein, Chris Huntingford et al
Disruption of the European climate seasonal clock in a warming world	Nature Climate Change	Apr 4, 2016	Christophe Cassou, Julien Cattiaux
Trend Analysis with a New Global Record of Tropical Cyclone Intensity	Journal of Climate	Jul 17, 2013	James P. Kossin, Timothy L. Olander, Kenneth R. Knapp
Atlantic Overturning in decline?	Nature	Jan 3, 2014	Jon Robson, Dan Hodson, Ed Hawkins, Rowan Sutton
Recent slowing of Atlantic overturning circulation as a recovery from earlier strengthening	Nature Geoscience	May 23, 2016	Laura C. Jackson, K. Andrew Peterson, Chris D. Roberts, Richard A. Wood
Increasing western US forest wildfire activity: sensitivity to changes in the timing of spring	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B	May 23, 2016	Anthony LeRoy Westerling
Increasing Trend of Extreme Rain Events Over India in a Warming Environment	Science	Dec 1, 2006	B. N. Goswami, V. Venugopal, D. Sengupta, M. S. Madhusoodanan, Prince K. Xavier
Robust signals of future projections of Indian summer monsoon rainfall by IPCC AR5 climate models: Role of seasonal cycle and interannual variability	Geophysical Research Letters	May 11, 2015	C. B. Jayasankar, Sajani Surendran, Kavirajan Rajendran