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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Using present-day observations to detect when anthropogenic change forces surface ocean carbonate chemistry outside preindustrial bounds | Biogeosciences | Sutton, Adrienne J., Sabine, Christopher L., Feely, Richard A., Cai, Wei-Jun, Cronin, Meghan F., McPhaden, Michael J., Morell, Julio M., Newton, Jan A., Noh, Jae-Hoon, Ólafsdóttir, Sólveig R., Salisbury, Joseph E., Send, Uwe et al | |
| Internal variability versus anthropogenic forcing on sea level and its components | Surveys in Geophysics | Marta Marcos, Ben Marzeion, Sönke Dangendorf, Aimée B. A. Slangen, Hindumathi Palanisamy, Luciana Fenoglio-Marc | |
| Quantifying anthropogenic and natural contributions to thermosteric sea level rise | Geophysical Research Letters | Marta Marcos, Angel Amores | |
| Anthropogenic forcing dominates sea level rise since 1850 | Geophysical Research Letters | S. Jevrejeva, A. Grinsted, J. C. Moore | |
| Anthropogenic forcing dominates global mean sea-level rise since 1970 | Nature Climate Change | Aimée B. A. Slangen, John A. Church, Cecile Agosta, Xavier Fettweis, Ben Marzeion, Kristin Richter | |
| Isolating the anthropogenic component of Arctic warming | Geophysical Research Letters | Petr Chylek, Nicholas Hengartner, Glen Lesins, James D. Klett, Ole Humlum, Marcia Wyatt, Manvendra K. Dubey | |
| One hundred years of Arctic surface temperature variation due to anthropogenic influence | Scientific Reports | John C. Fyfe, Knut von Salzen, Nathan P. Gillett, Vivek K. Arora, Gregory M. Flato, Joseph R. McConnell | |
| Human influence on Arctic sea ice detectable from early 1990s onwards | Geophysical Research Letters | Seung‐Ki Min, Xuebin Zhang, Francis W. Zwiers, Tom Agnew | |
| Attribution of Arctic temperature change to greenhouse-gas and aerosol influences | Nature Climate Change | Mohammad Reza Najafi, Francis W. Zwiers, Nathan P. Gillett | |
| Causes of atmospheric temperature change 1960–2000: A combined attribution analysis | Geophysical Research Letters | Gareth S. Jones, Simon F. B. Tett, Peter A. Stott | |
| Attribution of regional‐scale temperature changes to anthropogenic and natural causes | Geophysical Research Letters | Peter A. Stott | |
| Multimodel Multisignal Climate Change Detection at Regional Scale | AMS Journal of Climate | Xuebin Zhang | |
| Detection of human influence on twentieth-century precipitation trends | Nature | Xuebin Zhang, Francis W. Zwiers, Gabriele C. Hegerl, F. Hugo Lambert, Nathan P. Gillett, Susan Solomon, Peter A. Stott, Toru Nozawa | |
| Attributing intensification of precipitation extremes to human influence | Geophysical Research Letters | Xuebin Zhang, Hui Wan, Francis W. Zwiers, Gabriele C. Hegerl, Seung‐Ki Min | |
| Attribution of observed historical near‒surface temperature variations to anthropogenic and natural causes using CMIP5 simulations | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | Gareth S. Jones, Peter A. Stott, Nikolaos Christidis | |
| Detection of Anthropogenic Climate Change in the World's Oceans | Science | Tim P. Barnett, David W. Pierce, Reiner Schnur | |
| Global ocean warming tied to anthropogenic forcing | Geophysical Research Letters | Reichert, Bernhard K.; Schnur, Reiner; Bengtsson, Lennart | |
| Quantifying anthropogenic influence on recent near-surface temperature change | Surveys in Geophysics | M. R. Allen, N. P. Gillett, J. A. Kettleborough, G. Hegerl, R. Schnur, P. A. Stott, G. Boer, C. Covey, T. L. Delworth, G. S. Jones, J. F. B. Mitchell, T. P. Barnett | |
| Causes of twentieth-century temperature change near the Earth's surface | Nature | Simon F. B. Tett, Peter A. Stott, Myles R. Allen, William J. Ingram, John F. B. Mitchell | |
| Multi-fingerprint detection and attribution analysis of greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas-plus-aerosol and solar forced climate change | Climate Dynamics | G. C. Hegerl, K. Hasselmann, U. Cubasch, J. F. B. Mitchell, E. Roeckner, R. Voss, J. Waszkewitz |
