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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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Hot days induced by precipitation deficits at the global scale	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	Jul 31, 2012	Brigitte Mueller, Sonia I. Seneviratne
Evaluation of global observations-based evapotranspiration datasets and IPCC AR4 simulations	Geophysical Research Letters	Mar 18, 2011	Mueller, B., Seneviratne, S. I., Jimenez, C., Corti, T., Hirschi, M., Balsamo, G., Ciais, P., Dirmeyer, P., Fisher, J. B., Guo, Z., Jung, M., Maignan, F., McCabe, M. F., Reichle, R., Reichstein, M., Rodell, M., Sheffield, J., Teuling et al
Effects of changes in winter snowpacks on summer low flows: case studies in the Sierra Nevada, California, USA	Hydrological Processes	Aug 24, 2013	Godsey, S. E., Kirchner, J. W., Tague, C. L.
Searching for Information in 133 Years of California Snowfall Observations	Journal of Hydrometeorology	Jun 27, 2012	John R. Christy
Prairie fires on the Southern Plains	NOAA Climate.gov	Apr 21, 2016	Deke Arndt
Migratory response of polar bears to sea ice loss: to swim or not to swim	Ecography	Apr 14, 2016	Nicholas W. Pilfold, Alysa McCall, Andrew E. Derocher, Nicholas J. Lunn and Evan Richardson
Across US, Heaviest Downpours On The Rise	Climate Central	May 27, 2015
Projections of Water Stress Based on an Ensemble of Socioeconomic Growth and Climate Change Scenarios: A Case Study in Asia	PLOS ONE	Mar 30, 2016	Charles Fant, C. Adam Schlosser, Xiang Gao, Kenneth Strzepek, John Reilly
Climate-driven polar motion: 2003–2015	Science Advances	Apr 8, 2016	Surendra Adhikari and Erik R. Ivins
Effect of Climate Change on Air Quality	Atmospheric Environment	Jan 1, 2009	Jacob, Daniel J.; Winner, Darrel A.
Atmospheric composition change: Climate–Chemistry interactions	Atmospheric Environment	Oct 1, 2009	Isaksen, ISA; Granier, C; Myhre, G; Berntsen, T; Dalsøren, SB; Gauss, M; Klimont, Z; Benestad, R; Bousquet, P; Collins, W; Cox, T; Eyring, V; Fowler, D; Fuzzi, S; Jöckel, P; Laj, P; Lohmann, U; Maione, M; Monks, P; Prevot, ASH; Raes, F et al
Global air quality and climate	Chemical Society Reviews	Oct 7, 2012	Fiore AM, Naik V, Spracklen DV, Steiner A, Unger N, Prather M, Bergmann D, Cameron-Smith PJ, Cionni I, Collins WJ, Dalsøren S, Eyring V, Folberth GA, Ginoux P, Horowitz LW, Josse B, Lamarque JF, MacKenzie IA, Nagashima T, O'Connor FM et al
Photochemical box modeling of long-range transport from North America to Tenerife during NARE	Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres	Jun 1, 1998	Schultz, M., Schmitt, R., Thomas, K., Volz‐Thomas, A.
Relative roles of climate and emissions changes on future tropospheric oxidant concentrations	Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres	Aug 1, 1999	Johnson, C. E., Collins, W. J., Stevenson, D. S., Derwent, R. G.
Multimodel ensemble simulations of present-day and near-future tropospheric ozone		Apr 26, 2006	Stevenson, Dentener, Schultz, Ellingsen, van Noije, Wild, G. Zeng, Amann, Atherton, Bell, Bergmann, Bey, Butler, Cofala, Collins, Derwent, Doherty, Drevet, Eskes, Fiore, Gauss, Hauglustaine, Horowitz, Isaksen, Krol, Lamarque, Lawrence, Montanaro et al
Impacts of climate change on surface ozone and intercontinental ozone pollution: A multi-model study	Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres	May 7, 2013	Doherty, R. M., Wild, O., Shindell, D. T., Zeng, G., MacKenzie, I. A., Collins, W. J., Fiore, A. M., Stevenson, D. S., Dentener, F. J., Schultz, M. G., Hess, P., Derwent, R. G., Keating, T. J.
Wind speed trends over the contiguous United States	Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres	Jul 23, 2009	Pryor, S. C., Barthelmie, R. J., Young, D. T., Takle, E. S., Arritt, R. W., Flory, D., Gutowski, W. J., Nunes, A., Roads, J.
Effects of global warming on wind energy availability	Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy	Nov 17, 2010	Diandong Ren
Spatiotemporal changes of global extreme temperature events (ETEs) since 1981 and the meteorological causes	Natural Hazards	Nov 1, 2013	Xiao Song, Zhao Zhang, Yi Chen, Pin Wang, Ming Xiang, Peijun Shi, Fulu Tao
Changing trends of thermal extremes in Pakistan	Climatic Change	Jan 3, 2012	Maida Zahid, Ghulam Rasul