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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic tropical cyclones downscaled from climate reanalyses show increasing activity over past 150 years | Nature Communications | Kerry Emanuel | |
| Observed increases in extreme fire weather driven by atmospheric humidity and temperature | Nature Climate Change | Piyush Jain, Dante Castellanos-Acuna, Sean C. P. Coogan, John T. Abatzoglou & Mike D. Flannigan | |
| Plague risk in the western United States over seven decades of environmental change | Global Change Biology | Colin J. Carlson, Sarah N. Bevins, Boris V. Schmid | |
| Wildfire response to changing daily temperature extremes in California’s Sierra Nevada | Science Advances | Aurora A. Gutierrez, Stijn Hantson, Baird Langenbrunner, Bin Chen, Yufang Jin, Michael L. Goulden, and James T. Randerson | |
| Forest fires and climate-induced tree range shifts in the western US | Nature Communications | Avery P. Hill & Christopher B. Field | |
| Global Temperatures Over Last 24,000 Years Show Today's Warming 'Unprecedented' | Nature | Matthew Osman, Jessica Tierney, Jonathan King, Jiang Zhu, Robert Tardif, Gregory J. Hakim, and Christopher J. Poulsen | |
| Increasingly frequent wildfires linked to human-caused climate change, UCLA-led study finds | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Yizhou Zhuang, Alex Hall, Benjamin Santer, and Robert Dickinson | |
| Vermont Climate Assessment 2021 | University of Vermont | Gillian Galford et al. | |
| Estimated Mortality and Morbidity Attributable to Smoke Plumes in the United States: Not Just a Western US Problem | GeoHealth | Katelyn O’Dell, Kelsey Bilsback, Bonne Ford, Sheena E. Martenies, Sheryl Magzamen, Emily V. Fischer, and Jeffrey R. Pierce | |
| Status of Coral Reefs of the World 2020 | United Nations Environment Programme | ICRI, GCRMN, Australia Institute of Marine Science, | |
| Recent increases in tropical cyclone precipitation extremes over the US east coast | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Justin T. Maxwell, Joshua C. Bregy, Scott M. Robeson, Paul A. Knapp, Peter T. Soulé, and Valerie Trouet | |
| Global urban population exposure to extreme heat | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Cascade Tuholske, Kelly Caylor, Chris Funk, Andrew Verdin, Stuart Sweeney, Kathryn Grace, Pete Peterson, and Tom Evans | |
| Marine heatwaves exacerbate climate change impacts for fisheries in the northeast Pacific | Scientific Reports | William W. L. Cheung & Thomas L. Frölicher | |
| Increased drought severity tracks warming in the United States’ largest river basin | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Justin Martin, Gregory Pederson, Connie Woodhouse, Edward Cook, Gregory McCabe, Kevin Anchukaitis, Erika Wise, Patrick Erger, Larry Dolan, Marketa McGuire, Subhrendu Gangopadhyay, Katherine Chase, Jeremy Littell, Stephen Gray, Scott St. George et al. | |
| Global snow drought hot spots and characteristics | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Huning and AghaKouchak | |
| A Later Onset of the Rainy Season in California | Geophysical Research Letters | Jelena Luković, John C. H. Chiang, Dragan Blagojević, & Aleksandar Sekulić | |
| Increasing importance of temperature as a contributor to the spatial extent of streamflow drought | Environmental Research Letters | Manuela Brunner, Daniel L Swain, Eric Gilleland, and Andrew Wood | |
| Human influence on joint changes in temperature, rainfall and continental aridity | Nature Climate Change | Céline J. W. Bonfils, Benjamin D. Santer, John C. Fyfe, Kate Marvel, Thomas J. Phillips & Susan R. H. Zimmerman | |
| Future Warming and Intensification of Precipitation Extremes: A “Double Whammy” Leading to Increasing Flood Risk in California | Xingying Huang, Samantha Stevenson, and Alex D. Hall | ||
| Anomalously weak Labrador Sea convection and Atlantic overturning during the past 150 years | Nature | David J. R. Thornalley, Delia W. Oppo, Pablo Ortega, Jon I. Robson, Chris M. Brierley, Renee Davis, Ian R. Hall, Paola Moffa-Sanchez, Neil L. Rose, Peter T. Spooner, Igor Yashayaev & Lloyd D. Keigwin |
