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.
| Title | Source | Date | Author(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Understanding of Human-Induced Changes in U.S. Hot Droughts Using Equilibrium Climate Simulations | Journal of Climate | Linyin Cheng | |
| The day the 2003 European heatwave record was broken | The Lancet Planetary Health | Dann Mitchell, Kai Kornhuber, Chris Huntingford, Peter Uhe | |
| Human contribution to record-breaking June 2019 heatwave in France | World Weather Attribution | ||
| Heatwave in northern Europe, summer 2018 | World Weather Attribution | ||
| EEE 2015: The Role of Anthropogenic Warming in 2015 Central European Heat Waves | Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective | Sebastian Sippel | |
| EEE 2017: The Exceptional Summer Heat Wave in Southern Europe 2017 | Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective | Sarah Kew, Sjoukje Philip, Geert Jan Van Oldenborgh, Friederike Otto, Robert Vautard, and Gerard Van Der Schrier | |
| The 2015 European Heat Wave | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Buwen Dong, Rowan Sutton, Len Shaffrey, and Laura Wilcox | |
| Recent warming of landfalling atmospheric rivers along the west coast of the United States | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | Katerina R. Gonzales, Daniel L. Swain, Kyle M. Nardi, Elizabeth A. Barnes, Noah S. Diffenbaugh | |
| Acceleration of ice loss across the Himalayas over the past 40 years | Science Advances | J. M. Maurer, J. M. Schaefer, S. Rupper, A. Corley | |
| The deadly combination of heat and humidity in India and Pakistan in summer 2015 | Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective | Michael Wehner, Daithi Stone, Hari Krishnan et al | |
| Climate change increased the likelihood of the 2016 heat extremes in Asia | Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective | Yukiki Imada. Hideo Shiogama, Chiharu Takahashi et al | |
| The North Atlantic Oscillation as a driver of rapid climate change in the Northern Hemisphere | Nature Geoscience | Thomas L. Delworth, Fanrong Zeng, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Xiaosong Yang, Liping Zhang, Rong Zhang | |
| Impacts of historical warming on marine fisheries production | Science | Christopher M. Free, James T. Thorson, Malin L. Pinsky, Kiva L. Oken, John Wiedenmann, Olaf P. Jensen | |
| Twentieth-century hydroclimate changes consistent with human influence | Nature | Kate Marvel, Benjamin I. Cook, Céline J. W. Bonfils, Paul J. Durack, Jason E. Smerdon, A. Park Williams | |
| Extreme weather events in early summer 2018 connected by a recurrent hemispheric wave-7 pattern | Environmental Research Letters | Kai Kornhuber, Scott Osprey, Dim Coumou, Stefan Petri, Vladimir Petoukhov, Stefan Rahmstorf, Lesley Gray | |
| The Roles of Climate Change and Climate Variability in the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season | Scientific Reports | Young-Kwon Lim, Siegfried D. Schubert, Robin Kovach, Andrea M. Molod, Steven Pawson | |
| Global and Regional Increase of Precipitation Extremes under Global Warming | Water Resources Research | Simon Michael Papalexiou and Alberto Montanari | |
| 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 | |
| Human Influence on Winter Precipitation Trends (1921–2015) over North America and Eurasia Revealed by Dynamical Adjustment | Geophysical Research Letters | Ruixia Guo, Clara Deser, Laurent Terray, Flavio Lehner | |
| Global Emergence of Anthropogenic Climate Change in Fire Weather Indices | Geophysical Research Letters | John T. Abatzoglou, A. Park Williams, Renaud Barbero |
