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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	Jan 2, 2020	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	May 28, 2019	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	Nov 3, 2017	Donald Wuebbles, David Fahey, and Kathleen Hibbard
IPCC AR5 WGI: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis	Cambridge University Press	Sep 1, 2013	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	Jun 22, 2015	Kevin E. Trenberth, John T. Fasullo & Theodore G. Shepherd

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Distinctive climate signals in reanalysis of global ocean heat content	Geophysical Research Letters	May 10, 2013	Balmaseda, Magdalena A., Trenberth, Kevin E., Källén, Erland
The increasing efficiency of tornado days in the United States	Climate Dynamics	Aug 6, 2014	James B. Elsner, Svetoslava C. Elsner, Thomas H. Jagger
Increased variability of tornado occurrence in the United States	Science	Oct 17, 2014	Harold E. Brooks, Gregory W. Carbin, Patrick T. Marsh
Monitoring and Understanding Changes in Extremes: Extratropical Storms, Winds, and Waves	American Meteorological Society	Apr 17, 2013	Thomas C. Peterson, Thomas R. Karl, James P. Kossin, Kenneth E. Kunkel, Jay H. Lawrimore, James R. McMahon, Russell S. Vose, Xungang Yin.
Why does tropical convective available potential energy (CAPE) increase with warming?	Geophysical Research Letters	Dec 2, 2015	Seeley, Jacob T., Romps, David M.
Linking Siberian Snow Cover to Precursors of Stratospheric Variability	Journal of Climate	Mar 31, 2014	Judah Cohen, Jason C. Furtado, Justin Jones, Mathew Barlow, David Whittleston and Dara Entekhabi
The Siberian snow connection	Science	Feb 20, 2015	Carolyn Gramling
Recent Arctic amplification and extreme mid-latitude weather	Nature Geoscience	Aug 17, 2014	Judah Cohen, James A. Screen, Jason C. Furtado, Mathew Barlow, David Whittleston, Dim Coumou, Jennifer Francis, Klaus Dethloff, Dara Entekhabi, James Overland and Justin Jones
Evidence for a wavier jet stream in response to rapid Arctic warming	Environmental Research Letters	Jan 6, 2015	Jennifer A Francis, Stephen J Vavrus
Evidence linking Arctic amplification to extreme weather in mid-latitudes	Geophysical Research Letters	Mar 17, 2012	Francis, Jennifer A., Vavrus, Stephen J.
Arctic impact	Science	Feb 20, 2015	Carolyn Gramling
A decade of sea level rise slowed by climate-driven hydrology	Science	Feb 12, 2016	J. T. Reager, A. S. Gardner, J. S. Famiglietti, D. N. Wiese, A. Eicker, M.-H. Lo
Recent seasonal asymmetric changes in the NAO and associated changes in the AO and Greenland Blocking Index	International Journal of Climatology	Sep 8, 2014	Hanna, Edward, Cropper, Thomas E., Jones, Philip D., Scaife, Adam A., Allan, Rob
Access : Increased multidecadal variability of the North Atlantic Oscillation since 1781	Nature Geoscience	Nov 8, 2008	Nathalie F. Goodkin, Konrad A. Hughen, Scott C. Doney, William B. Curry
Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms	American Meteorological Society	May 15, 2012	Kenneth E. Kunkel, Thomas R. Karl, Harold Brooks, James Kossin, Jay H. Lawrimore, Derek Arndt, Lance Bosart, David Changnon, Susan L. Cutter, Nolan Doesken, Kerry Emanuel et al
Recent warm and cold daily winter temperature extremes in the Northern Hemisphere	Geophysical Research Letters	Sep 2, 2011	Guirguis, Kristen, Gershunov, Alexander, Schwartz, Rachel, Bennett, Stephen
2009-2010 Cold Season Special Report	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	May 24, 2010	National Climate Data Center
What would happen to Superstorm Sandy under the influence of a substantially warmer Atlantic Ocean?	Geophysical Research Letters	Jan 19, 2016	Lau, William K. M., Shi, J. J., Tao, W. K., Kim, K. M.
Thermodynamic and Dynamic Mechanisms for Large-Scale Changes in the Hydrological Cycle in Response to Global Warming	American Meteorological Society	Apr 29, 2010	Richard Seager, Naomi Naik, Gabriel A. Vecchi
Dynamic and thermodynamic changes in mean and extreme precipitation under changed climate	Geophysical Research Letters	Sep 13, 2005	Emori, S., Brown, S. J.