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)
Rapid attribution of the extreme rainfall in Texas from Tropical Storm Imelda World Weather Attribution Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Karin van der Wiel, Sjoukje Philip & Sarah Kew
Connecting AMOC changes Nature Climate Change Annalisa Cherchi
Large Wildfires in Forests: What Can be Done? Action Bioscience Scott L. Stephens, Malcolm P. North, and Brandon M. Collins
Prescribed fire and natural recovery produce similar long-term patterns of change in forest structure in the Lake Tahoe basin, California Forest Ecology and Management Luke J.Zachmann, Daniel W.H. Shaw and Brett G. Dickson
Learning to coexist with wildfire Nature Max A. Moritz, Enric Batllori, Ross A. Bradstock, A. Malcolm Gill, John Handmer, Paul F. Hessburg, Justin Leonard, Sarah McCaffrey, Dennis C. Odion, Tania Schoennagel, Alexandra D. Syphard
Forest Harvest Can Increase Subsequent Forest Fire Severity Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Fire Economics, Planning, and Policy: A Global View Carter Stone, Andrew Hudak, and Penelope Morgan
Preventing disaster: Home ignitability in the wildland-urban interface Journal of Forestry Jack D. Cohen
Land Use Planning and Wildfire: Development Policies Influence Future Probability of Housing Loss PLOS ONE Alexandra D. Syphard, Avi Bar Massada, Van Butsic, Jon E. Keeley
Global Increasing Trends in Annual Maximum Daily Precipitation Journal of Climate Seth Westra, Lisa Alexander, and Francis Zwiers
Assessing the observed impact of anthropogenic climate change Nature Climate Change Gerrit Hansen, Dáithí Stone
The health impacts and economic value of wildland fire episodes in the U.S.: 2008-2012 Science of the Total Environment Fann N, Alman B, Broome RA, Morgan GG, Johnston FH, Pouliot G, Rappold AG
Wildfire smoke exposure under climate change: impact on respiratory health of affected communitie Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine Reid CE and Maestas MM
Recent increases in tropical cyclone intensification rates Nature Communications Kieran T. Bhatia, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Thomas R. Knutson, Hiroyuki Murakami, James Kossin, Keith W. Dixon, Carolyn E. Whitlock
Evidence for declining forest resilience to wildfires under climate change Ecology Letters Camille S. Stevens‐Rumann, Kerry B. Kemp, Philip E. Higuera, Brian J. Harvey, Monica T. Rother, Daniel C. Donato, Penelope Morgan, Thomas T. Veblen
Heat wave probability in the changing climate of the Southwest US Climate Dynamics Kristen Guirguis, Alexander Gershunov, Daniel R. Cayan, David W. Pierce
Contiguous US summer maximum temperature and heat stress trends in CRU and NOAA Climate Division data plus comparisons to reanalyses Scientific Reports Richard Grotjahn, Jonathan Huynh
Precipitation regime change in Western North America: The role of Atmospheric Rivers Scientific Reports Alexander Gershunov, Tamara Shulgina, Rachel E. S. Clemesha, Kristen Guirguis, David W. Pierce, Michael D. Dettinger, David A. Lavers, Daniel R. Cayan, Suraj D. Polade, Julie Kalansky, F. Martin Ralph
Attribution of Arctic Sea Ice Decline from 1953 to 2012 to Influences from Natural, Greenhouse Gas, and Anthropogenic Aerosol Forcing Journal of Climate B.L. Mueller
Increased Fall Precipitation in the Southeastern United States Driven by Higher‐Intensity, Frontal Precipitation Geophysical Research Letters Daniel A. Bishop, A. Park Williams, Richard Seager
Climate and very large wildland fires in the contiguous western USA International Journal of Wildland Fire E. Natasha Stavros, John Abatzoglou, Narasimhan K. Larkin, Donald McKenzie, E. Ashley Steel