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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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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

Title	Source	Date	Author(s)
Variations in the Intensity and Spatial Extent of Tropical Cyclone Precipitation	Geophysical Research Letters	Oct 18, 2019	Danielle Touma, Samantha Stevenson, Suzana J. Camargo, Daniel E. Horton, Noah S. Diffenbaugh
Temperature-driven global sea-level variability in the Common Era	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	Feb 22, 2016	Robert E. Kopp, Andrew C. Kemp, Klaus Bittermann, Benjamin P. Horton, Jeffrey P. Donnelly, W. Roland Gehrels, Carling C. Hay, Jerry X. Mitrovica, Eric D. Morrow, Stefan Rahmstorf
Evaluating the performance of past climate model projections	Geophysical Research Letters	Dec 4, 2019	Zeke Hausfather, Henri F. Drake, Tristan Abbott, Gavin A. Schmidt
Changes in Hurricanes from a 13-Yr Convection-Permitting Pseudo–Global Warming Simulation	Journal of Climate	Apr 6, 2018	Ethan D. Gutmann, Roy M. Rasmussen, Changhai Liu, and Kyoko Ikeda
Widespread severe wildfires under climate change lead to increased forest homogeneity in dry mixed‐conifer forests	Ecosphere	Nov 21, 2019	Brooke A. Cassell, Robert M. Scheller, Melissa S. Lucash, Matthew D. Hurteau, E. Louise Loudermilk
The impact of rising CO2 and acclimation on the response of US forests to global warming	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	Nov 25, 2019	John S. Sperry, Martin D. Venturas, Henry N. Todd, Anna T. Trugman, William R. L. Anderegg, Yujie Wang, Xiaonan Tai
Enhanced El Niño‐Southern Oscillation variability in recent decades	Geophysical Research Letters	Oct 25, 2019	Pamela R. Grothe, Kim M. Cobb, Giovanni Liguori, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Antonietta Capotondi, Yanbin Lu et al . . . Lauren T. Toth
Distinguishing Pronounced Droughts in the Southwestern United States: Seasonality and Effects of Warmer Temperatures	AMS Journal of Climate	Nov 15, 2009	Jeremy L. Weiss
Recent Advances and Remaining Uncertainties in Resolving Past and Future Climate Effects on Global Fire Activity	Current Climate Change Reports	Feb 9, 2016	A. Park Williams, John T. Abatzoglou
How daily temperature and precipitation distributions evolve with global surface temperature	Earth's Future	Oct 26, 2019	B.H. Samset, C.W. Stjern, M.T. Lund, C.W. Mohr, M. Sand, A.S. Daloz
Viral emergence in marine mammals in the North Pacific may be linked to Arctic sea ice reduction	Scientific Reports	Nov 7, 2019	E. VanWormer, J. A. K. Mazet, A. Hall, V. A. Gill, P. L. Boveng, J. M. London, T. Gelatt, B. S. Fadely, M. E. et al
Normalized US hurricane damage estimates using area of total destruction, 1900−2018	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	Nov 11, 2019	Aslak Grinsted, Peter Ditlevsen, Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen
Global glacier mass changes and their contributions to sea-level rise from 1961 to 2016	Nature	Apr 18, 2019	M. Zemp, M. Huss, E. Thibert, N. Eckert, R. McNabb, J. Huber, M. Barandun, H. Machguth, S. U. Nussbaumer, I. Gärtner-Roer, L. Thomson, F. Paul, F. Maussion, S. Kutuzov, J. G. Cogley
Exceptionally High 2018 Equilibrium Line Altitude on Taku Glacier, Alaska	Remote Sensing	Sep 14, 2019	Pelto, Mauri
Marine heat wave and multiple stressors tip bull kelp forest to sea urchin barrens	Scientific Reports	Oct 21, 2019	L. Rogers-Bennett, C. A. Catton
Projected increase in lightning strikes in the United States due to global warming	Science	Nov 14, 2014	David M. Romps, Jacob T. Seeley, David Vollaro, John Molinari
The unequal vulnerability of communities of color to wildfire	PLOS ONE	Nov 2, 2018	Ian P. Davies, Ryan D. Haugo, James C. Robertson, Phillip S. Levin
New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding	Nature Communications	Oct 29, 2019	Scott A. Kulp, Benjamin H. Strauss
Historical change of El Niño properties sheds light on future changes of extreme El Niño	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	Oct 21, 2019	Bin Wang, Xiao Luo, Young-Min Yang, Weiyi Sun, Mark A. Cane, Wenju Cai, Sang-Wook Yeh, Jian Liu
Northern forest winters have lost cold, snowy conditions that are important for ecosystems and human communities	Ecological Applications	Jul 16, 2019	Contosta, Casson, Garlick et al