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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recent intensification of Amazon flooding extremes driven by strengthened Walker circulation | Science Advances | Jonathan Barichivich, Emanuel Gloor, Philippe Peylin, Roel J. W. Brienen, Jochen Schöngart, Jhan Carlo Espinoza, Kanhu C. Pattnayak | |
| The human influence on Hurricane Florence | Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences | Kevin Reed, Alyssa Stansfield, Michael Wehner, and Colin Zarzycki | |
| On the causes of declining Colorado River streamflows | Water Resources Research | Mu Xiao, Bradley Udall, Dennis P. Lettenmaier | |
| A stratospheric pathway linking a colder Siberia to Barents-Kara Sea sea ice loss | Science Advances | Pengfei Zhang, Yutian Wu, Isla R. Simpson, Karen L. Smith, Xiangdong Zhang, Bithi De, Patrick Callaghan | |
| Toward Regional-Scale Climate Change Detection | AMS Journal of Climate | Francis W. Zwiers and Xuebin Zhang | |
| Hydroclimatic flood trends in the northeastern United States and linkages with large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns | Hydrological Sciences Journal | William H. Armstrong, Mathias J. Collins & Noah P. Snyder | |
| Anthropogenic Weakening of the Tropical Circulation: The Relative Roles of Direct CO2 Forcing and Sea Surface Temperature Change | AMS Journal of Climate | Jie He and Brian Soden | |
| Global Warming Pattern Formation: Sea Surface Temperature and Rainfall | AMS Journal of Climate | Shang-Ping Xie, Clara Deser, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Jian Ma, Haiyan Teng, and Andrew T. Wittenberg | |
| Global Warming and the Weakening of the Tropical Circulation | AMS Journal of Climate | Vecchi and Soden | |
| Decreasing fire season precipitation increased recent western US forest wildfire activity | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Zachary A. Holden, Alan Swanson, Charles H. Luce, W. Matt Jolly, Marco Maneta, Jared W. Oyler, Dyer A. Warren, Russell Parsons, David Affleck | |
| The influence of Arctic amplification on mid-latitude summer circulation | Nature Communications | D. Coumou, G. Di Capua, S. Vavrus, L. Wang, S. Wang | |
| Marine heatwaves under global warming | Nature | Thomas L. Frölicher, Erich M. Fischer, Nicolas Gruber | |
| A 1500-year reconstruction of annual mean temperature for temperate North America on decadal-to-multidecadal time scales | Environmental Research Letters | V Trouet, H F Diaz, E R Wahl, A E Viau, R Graham, N Graham, E R Cook | |
| Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia | PAGES 2k Consortium, Moinuddin Ahmed, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Asfawossen Asrat, Hemant P. Borgaonkar, Martina Braida, Brendan M. Buckley, Ulf Büntgen, Brian M. Chase, Duncan A. Christie et al | ||
| The emergence of surface-based Arctic amplification | The Cryosphere | Serreze, M. C., Barrett, A. P., Stroeve, J. C., Kindig, D. N., Holland, M. M. | |
| Rising Variability in Thunderstorm-Related U.S. Losses as a Reflection of Changes in Large-Scale Thunderstorm Forcing | AMS Journal of Climate | J. Sander, J. F. Eichner, E. Faust, and M. Steuer | |
| Strengthening contrast between precipitation in tropical wet and dry regions | Geophysical Research Letters | D. Polson, G. C. Hegerl | |
| Globally rising soil heterotrophic respiration over recent decades | Nature | Ben Bond-Lamberty, Vanessa L. Bailey, Min Chen, Christopher M. Gough, Rodrigo Vargas | |
| The impact of land ownership, firefighting, and reserve status on fire probability in California | Environmental Research Letters | Carlin Frances Starrs, Van Butsic, Connor Stephens, William Stewart | |
| Atmospheric blocking as a traffic jam in the jet stream | Science | Noboru Nakamura, Clare S. Y. Huang |
