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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk | Colin J. Carlson, Gregory F. Albery, Cory Merow, Christopher H. Trisos, Casey M. Zipfel, Evan A. Eskew, Kevin J. Olival, Noam Ross & Shweta Bansal | ||
| Extreme Atlantic hurricane seasons made twice as likely by ocean warming | Journal of Weather and Climate Dynamics | Peter Pfleiderer , Shruti Nath, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner | |
| A Multidataset Assessment of Climatic Drivers and Uncertainties of Recent Trends in Evaporative Demand across the Continental United States | Journal of Hydrometeorology | Christine M. Albano, John T. Abatzoglou, Daniel J. McEvoy, Justin L. Huntington, Charles G. Morton, Michael D. Dettinger, and Thomas J. Ott | |
| Climate change affects bird nesting phenology: Comparing contemporary field and historical museum nesting records | Journal of Animal Ecology | John M. Bates, Mason Fidino, Laurel Nowak-Boyd, Bill M. Strausberger, Kenneth A. Schmidt, and Christopher J. Whelan | |
| Monitoring global carbon emissions in 2021 | Nature Reviews Earth & Environment | Zhu Liu, Zhu Deng, Steven J. Davis, Clement Giron & Philippe Ciais | |
| Emergence of climate change in the tropical Pacific | Jun Ying, Matthew Collins, Wenju Cai, Axel Timmermann, Ping Huang, Dake Chen & Karl Stein | ||
| Growing impact of wildfire on western US water supply | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | A. Park Williams, Ben Livneh, Karen A. McKinnon, Winslow D. Hansen, Justin S. Mankin, Benjamin I. Cook, Jason E. Smerdon, Arianna M. Varuolo-Clarke, Nels R. Bjarke, Caroline S. Juang, and Dennis P. Lettenmaier | |
| Association of Tropical Cyclones With County-Level Mortality in the US | Journal of the American Medical Association | Robbie M. Parks, PhD; Jaime Benavides, PhD G. Brooke Anderson, PhD; Rachel C. Nethery, PhD; Ana Navas-Acien, PhD; Francesca Dominici, PhD; Majid Ezzati, PhD; Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, ScD | |
| Severe Lake Heatwaves Attributable to Human-Induced Global Warming | Geophysical Research Letters | R. Iestyn Woolway, Clément Albergel, Thomas L. Frölicher, and Marjorie Perroud | |
| Turbidity and fecal indicator bacteria in recreational marine waters increase following the 2018 Woolsey Fire | Scientific Reports | Marisol Cira, Anisha Bafna, Christine M. Lee, Yuwei Kong, Benjamin Holt, Luke Ginger, Kerry Cawse-Nicholson, Lucy Rieves & Jennifer A. Jay | |
| Timing of emergence of modern rates of sea-level rise by 1863 | Nature Communications | Jennifer S. Walker, Robert E. Kopp, Christopher M. Little & Benjamin P. Horton | |
| Decreasing rainfall frequency contributes to earlier leaf onset in northern ecosystems | Nature Climate Change | Jian Wang, Desheng Liu, Philippe Ciais & Josep Peñuelas | |
| Concentrated and Intensifying Humid Heat Extremes in the IPCC AR6 Regions | Geophysical Research Letters | Simone Speizer, Colin Raymond, Catherine Ivanovich, and Radley M. Horton | |
| Inequitable patterns of US flood risk in the Anthropocene | Nature Climate change | Oliver E. J. Wing, William Lehman, Paul D. Bates, Christopher C. Sampson, Niall Quinn, Andrew M. Smith, Jeffrey C. Neal, Jeremy R. Porter & Carolyn Kousky | |
| Timing and magnitude of climate-driven range shifts in transboundary fish stocks challenge their management | Global Change Biology | Juliano Palacios-Abrantes, Thomas L. Frölicher, Gabriel Reygondeau, U. Rashid Sumaila, Alessandro Tagliabue, Colette C. C. Wabnitz, William W. L. Cheung | |
| Unraveling a century of global change impacts on winter bird distributions in the eastern United States | Global Change Biology | ||
| Trends in surface equivalent potential temperature: A more comprehensive metric for global warming and weather extremes | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Fengfei Song, Guang J. Zhang, V. Ramanathan, and L. Ruby Leung | |
| Increasing heat-stress inequality in a warming climate | Earth's Future | Mohammad Reza Alizadeh, John T. Abatzoglou, Jan F. Adamowski, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Bhaskar Chittoori, Ata Akbari Asanjan, Mojtaba Sadegh | |
| Another Record: Ocean Warming Continues through 2021 despite La Niña Conditions | Advances in Atmospheric Sciences | Lijing Cheng, John Abraham, Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo, Tim Boyer, Michael E. Mann, Jiang Zhu, Fan Wang, Ricardo Locarnini, Yuanlong Li, Bin Zhang, Zhetao Tan, Fujiang Yu, Liying Wan, Xingrong Chen, Xiangzhou Song, Yulong Liu, et al. | |
| Quantifying contributions of natural variability and anthropogenic forcings on increased fire weather risk over the western United States | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Yizhou Zhuang, Rong Fu, Benjamin D. Santer, Robert E. Dickinson, and Alex Hall |
