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)
The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States Climate and Health Assessment US Global Change Research Program
Timescales of transformational climate change adaptation in sub-Saharan African agriculture Nature Climate Change Ulrike Rippke, Julian Ramirez-Villegas, Andy Jarvis, Sonja J. Vermeulen, Louis Parker, Flora Mer, Bernd Diekkrüger, Andrew J. Challinor, Mark Howden
Consistent response of bird populations to climate change on two continents Science Philip A. Stephens, Lucy R. Mason, Rhys E. Green, Richard D. Gregory, John R. Sauer, Jamie Alison, Ainars Aunins, Lluís Brotons, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Tommaso Campedelli, Tomasz Chodkiewicz, Przemysław Chylarecki, Olivia Crowe, Jaanus Elts et al
The implication of nonradiative energy fluxes dominating Greenland ice sheet exceptional ablation area surface melt in 2012 Geophysical Research Letters Fausto, Robert S., As, Dirk, Box, Jason E., Colgan, William, Langen, Peter L., Mottram, Ruth H.
The stratospheric pathway for Arctic impacts on midlatitude climate Geophysical Research Letters Nakamura, Tetsu, Yamazaki, Koji, Iwamoto, Katsushi, Honda, Meiji, Miyoshi, Yasunobu, Ogawa, Yasunobu, Tomikawa, Yoshihiro, Ukita, Jinro
Contribution of relative sea-level rise to historical hurricane flooding in New York City Journal of Quaternary Science Kemp, Andrew C., Horton, Benjamin P.
Contribution of Antarctica to past and future sea-level rise Nature Robert M. DeConto, David Pollard
A projection of changes in landfalling atmospheric river frequency and extreme precipitation over western North America from the Large Ensemble CESM simulations Geophysical Research Letters Hagos, Samson M., Leung, L. Ruby, Yoon, Jin‐Ho, Lu, Jian, Gao, Yang
Heat-Related Deaths during the July 1995 Heat Wave in Chicago The New England Journal of Medicine Jan C. Semenza, Ph.D., M.P.H., Carol H. Rubin, D.V.M., M.P.H., Kenneth H. Falter, Ph.D., Joel D. Selanikio, M.D., W. Dana Flanders, M.D., D.Sc., Holly L. Howe, Ph.D., and John L. Wilhelm, M.D., M.P.H.
Near-Fatal Heat Stroke during the 1995 Heat Wave in Chicago Annals of Internal Medicine Jane E. Dematte, Karen O'Mara, Jennifer Buescher, Cynthia G. Whitney, Sean Forsythe, Turi McNamee, Raghavendra B. Adiga, I. Maurice Ndukwu
Heat waves in the United States: mortality risk during heat waves and effect modification by heat wave characteristics in 43 U.S. communities PubMed - NCBI Anderson GB and Bell ML
Interactions between urbanization, heat stress, and climate change Climatic Change K. W. Oleson, A. Monaghan, O. Wilhelmi, M. Barlage, N. Brunsell, J. Feddema, L. Hu, D. F. Steinhoff
The 1995 Chicago Heat Wave: How Likely Is a Recurrence? Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Thomas R. Karl and Richard W. Knight
Climate change, heat waves, and mortality projections for Chicago Journal of Great Lakes Research Katharine Hayhoe, Scott Sheridan, Laurence Kalkstein, Scott Greene
The July 1995 Heat Wave in the Midwest: A Climatic Perspective and Critical Weather Factors Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Kunkel, K. E., S. A. Changnon, B. C. Reinke, and R. W. Arritt
Impacts and Responses to the 1995 Heat Wave: A Call to Action Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Stanley A. Changnon, Kenneth E. Kunkel, and Beth C. Reinke
Projected future temperature and precipitation extremes in Chicago Journal of Great Lakes Research Steve Vavrusa andJeff Van Dornb
Current and future U.S. weather extremes and El Niño Geophysical Research Letters Meehl, Gerald A., Tebaldi, Claudia, Teng, Haiyan, Peterson, Thomas C.
Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective American Meteorological Society Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
The dependence of hurricane intensity on climate Nature Kerry Emanuel