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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Climate change presents increased potential for very large fires in the contiguous United States International Journal of Wildland Fire Renaud Barbero, John Abatzoglou, Narasimhan Larkin, Crystal Kolden, and BJ Stocks
Relationships between climate and macroscale area burned in the western United States International Journal of Wildland Fire John T. Abatzoglou, Crystal A. Kolden
Recent Tree Mortality in the Western United States from Bark Beetles and Forest Fires Forest Science Hicke, Jeffrey A., Meddens, Arjan J.H., Kolden, Crystal A.
Observed and anticipated impacts of drought on forest insects and diseases in the United States Forest Ecology and Management Thomas E.Kolba, Christopher J.Fettig, Matthew P.Ayres, Barbara J.Bentz, Jeffrey A.Hickee, Robert Mathiasena, Jane E.Stewartf, Aaron S.Weed
Climate Change and Bark Beetles of the Western United States and Canada: Direct and Indirect Effects BioScience Bentz, Barbara J., Régnière, Jacques, Fettig, Christopher J, Hansen, E. Matthew, Hayes, Jane L., Hicke, Jeffrey A., Kelsey, Rick G., Negrón, Jose F., Seybold, Steven J.
Sensitivity of snowpack storage to precipitation and temperature using spatial and temporal analog models Water Resources Research Charles H. Luce, Viviana Lopez‐Burgos, Zachary Holden
Climate change and the eco‐hydrology of fire: Will area burned increase in a warming western USA? Ecological Applications Donald McKenzie, Jeremy S. Littell
The effectiveness of vegetation management practices for prevention and control of bark beetle infestations in coniferous forests of the western and southern United States Forest ecology and management Christopher J. Fettig, Kier D. Klepzig, Ronald f. Billings, A. Steven Munson, T. Evan Nebeker, Jose F. Negron, John T. Nowak
Expansion of the US wildland–urban interface Landscape and Urban Planning David M.Theobald and William H.Romme
Monsoon Climate Change Projection for the Orographic West Coast of India Using High‐Resolution Nested Dynamical Downscaling Model Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres C. B. Jayasankar, Kavirajan Rajendran, Sajani Surendran
Severe Continental-Scale Impacts of Climate Change Are Happening Now: Extreme Climate Events Impact Marine Habitat Forming Communities Along 45% of Australia’s Coast Frontiers in Marine Science Babcock, Russell C., Bustamante, Rodrigo H., Fulton, Elizabeth A., Fulton, Derek J., Haywood, Michael D. E., Hobday, Alistair James, Kenyon, Robert, Matear, Richard James, Plagányi, Eva E., Richardson, Anthony J., Vanderklift, Mathew A.
Concurrent 2018 Hot Extremes Across Northern Hemisphere Due to Human‐Induced Climate Change Earth's Future M. M. Vogel, J. Zscheischler, R. Wartenburger, D. Dee, S. I. Seneviratne
Intensification of the North American Monsoon Rainfall as Observed From a Long‐Term High‐Density Gauge Network Geophysical Research Letters Eleonora M. C. Demaria, Pieter Hazenberg, Russell L. Scott, Menberu B. Meles, Mary Nichols, David Goodrich
Recent increase in catastrophic tropical cyclone flooding in coastal North Carolina, USA: Long-term observations suggest a regime shift Scientific Reports Hans W. Paerl, Nathan S. Hall, Alexandria G. Hounshell, Richard A. Luettich, Karen L. Rossignol, Christopher L. Osburn, Jerad Bales
Impacts of half a degree additional warming on the Asian summer monsoon rainfall characteristics Environmental Research Letters Donghyun Lee, Seung-Ki Min, Erich Fischer, Hideo Shiogama, Ingo Bethke, Ludwig Lierhammer, John F Scinocca
Asian Monsoon Climate Change - Understanding and Prediction Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences Kyung-Ja Ha, June-Yi Lee, Bin Wang, Shang-Ping Xie, and Akio Kitoh
Climate Change and Monsoon: Looking Into Its Antecedents SAGE Open Praveen B. Gawali, B. V. Lakshmi, K. Deenadayalan
The long-term variability of Changma in the East Asian summer monsoon system: A review and revisit Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences June-Yi Lee, MinHo Kwon, Kyung-Sook Yun, Seung-Ki Min, In-Hong Park, Yoo-Geun Ham, Emilia Kyung Jin, Joo-Hong Kim, Kyong-Hwan Seo, WonMoo Kim, So-Young Yim, Jin-Ho Yoon
Hurricane stalling along the North American coast and implications for rainfall npj Climate and Atmospheric Science Timothy M. Hall, James P. Kossin
Observed impacts of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire in California Earth's Future A. Park Williams, John T. Abatzoglou, Alexander Gershunov, Janin Guzman‐Morales, Daniel A. Bishop, Jennifer K. Balch, Dennis P. Lettenmaier