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
Title Source Date Author(s)
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