Science Sources: Detection and Attribution
Climate Signals tracks detection and attribution studies in real time. Below is an updating database of studies that find the fingerprint of human-caused climate change on observed trends and events. The database is limited to studies of local significance in the United States and studies of global significance. For a broader database of peer-reviewed studies and organizational reports on climate change trends, please see all Science Sources.
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| Title | Source | Date | Author(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Significant anthropogenic-induced changes of climate classes since 1950 | Nature | Duo Chan, Qigang Wu | |
| A geological perspective on sea-level rise and its impacts along the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast | Earth's Future AGU Publication | Kenneth G. Miller, Robert E. Kopp, Benjamin P. Horton, James V. Browning, Andrew C. Kemp | |
| Unnatural Coastal Floods: Sea level rise and the human fingerprint on U.S. floods since 1950 | Climate Central | Benjamin H. Strauss, Robert E. Kopp, William V. Sweet, Klaus Bittermann | |
| Detecting anthropogenic footprints in sea level rise | Nature Communications | Sönke Dangendorf, Marta Marcos, Alfred Müller, Eduardo Zorita, Riccardo Riva, Kevin Berk, Jürgen Jensen | |
| Distinctive climate signals in reanalysis of global ocean heat content | Geophysical Research Letters | Balmaseda, Magdalena A., Trenberth, Kevin E., Källén, Erland | |
| EEE 2013: The extraordinary California drought of 2013/2014: character, context, and the role of climate change | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Daniel L. Swain, Michael Tsiang, Matz Haugen, Deepti Singh, Allison Charland, Bala Rajaratnam, and Noah S. Diffenbaug | |
| Anthropogenic warming has increased drought risk in California | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Daniel L. Swain, and Danielle Toum | |
| Global warming and changes in risk of concurrent climate extremes: Insights from the 2014 California drought | Geophysical Research Letters | AghaKouchak, Amir, Cheng, Linyin, Mazdiyasni, Omid, Farahmand, Alireza | |
| Role of the strengthened El Niño teleconnection in the May 2015 floods over the southern Great Plains | Geophysical Research Letters | Simon Wang, S.‐Y., Huang, Wan‐Ru, Hsu, Huang‐Hsiung, Gillies, Robert R. | |
| Anthropogenic contribution to global occurrence of heavy-precipitation and high-temperature extremes | Nature Climate Change | E. M. Fischer, R. Knutti | |
| Record Hot Year, 2015 | World Weather Attribution | ||
| Attribution of climate extreme events | Nature Climate Change | Kevin E. Trenberth, John T. Fasullo & Theodore G. Shepherd |
