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) |
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EEE 2014: Was the Cold Eastern Us Winter of 2014 Due to Increased Variability? | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Laurie Trenary, Timothy DelSole, Brian Doty, and Michael K. Tippett | |
EEE 2014: How Unusual was the Cold Winter of 2013/14 in the Upper Midwest? | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Klaus Wolter, Jon K. Eischeid, Xiao-Wei Quan, and Thomas N. Chase | |
EEE 2016: Was the January 2016 Mid-Atlantic Snowstorm “Jonas” Symptomatic of Climate Change? | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Klaus Wolter | |
Detection of external influence on trends of atmospheric storminess and northern oceans wave heights | Climate Dynamics | Xiaolan L. Wang, Val R. Swail, Francis W. Zwiers, Xuebin Zhang, Yang Feng | |
Weakening of tropical Pacific atmospheric circulation due to anthropogenic forcing | Nature | Gabriel A. Vecchi, Brian J. Soden, Andrew T. Wittenberg, Isaac M. Held, Ants Leetmaa, Matthew J. Harrison | |
Quantifying the relative contribution of the climate and direct human impacts on mean annual streamflow in the contiguous United States | Water Resources Research | Dingbao Wang, Mohamad Hejazi | |
Single‐step attribution of increasing frequencies of very warm regional temperatures to human influence | Atmospheric Science Letters | Peter A. Stott, Gareth S. Jones, Nikolaos Christidis, Francis W. Zwiers, Gabriele Hegerl, Hideo Shiogama | |
Human-induced arctic moistening | Science | Seung-Ki Min, Xuebin Zhang, Francis Zwiers | |
Human contribution to rapidly increasing frequency of very warm Northern Hemisphere summers | Journal of Geophysical Research | Gareth S. Jones, Peter A. Stott, and Nikolaos Christidis | |
Southern Ocean warming due to human influence | Geophysical Research Letters | John C. Fyfe | |
Penetration of Human-Induced Warming into the World's Oceans | Science | Tim P. Barnett, David W. Pierce, Krishna M. AchutaRao, Peter J. Gleckler, Benjamin D. Santer, Jonathan M. Gregory, Warren M. Washington | |
Near-Surface Salinity as Nature’s Rain Gauge to Detect Human Influence on the Tropical Water Cycle | AMS Journal of Climate | Laurent Terray and Lola Corre | |
Methodology and Results of Calculating Central California Surface Temperature Trends: Evidence of Human-Induced Climate Change? | AMS Journal of Climate | John R. Christy and William B. Norris | |
A search for human influences on the thermal structure of the atmosphere | Nature | B. D. Santer, K. E. Taylor, T. M. L. Wigley, T. C. Johns, P. D. Jones, D. J. Karoly, J. F. B. Mitchell, A. H. Oort, J. E. Penner, V. Ramaswamy, M. D. Schwarzkopf, R. J. Stouffer, S. Tett | |
Towards the detection and attribution of an anthropogenic effect on climate | Climate Dynamics | Benjamin D. Santer, Karl E. Taylor, Tom M. L. Wigley, Joyce E. Penner, Philip D. Jones, Ulrich Cubasch | |
Detecting climate signals in the surface temperature record | AMS Journal of Climate | Gerald R. North and Mark J. Stevens | |
Signal detectability in extreme precipitation changes assessed from twentieth century climate simulations | Climate Dynamics | Seung-Ki Min, Xuebin Zhang, Francis W. Zwiers, Petra Friederichs, Andreas Hense | |
On the emergence of an Arctic amplification signal in terrestrial Arctic snow extent | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | Debjani Ghatak, Allan Frei, Gavin Gong, Julienne Stroeve, David Robinson | |
Patterns of change: whose fingerprint is seen in global warming? | Environmental Research Letters | Gabriele Hegerl, Francis Zwiers and Claudia Tebaldi | |
Detecting an external influence on recent changes in oceanic oxygen using an optimal fingerprinting method | Biogeosciences | Andrews, O. D., Bindoff, N. L., Halloran, P. R., Ilyina, T., Quéré, C. Le |