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Causes of the Extreme Dry Conditions Over California During Early 2013

September 2014
Hailan Wang, Siegfried Schubert
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
The 2013 SST anomalies produced a predilection for California drought, whereas the longterm warming trend appears to make no appreciable contribution because of the counteraction between its dynamical and thermodynamic effects. Read More →

Detection and Attribution of Observed Impacts

January 2014
Wolfgang Cramer, Gary W. Yohe, Maximilian Auffhammer, Christian Huggel, Ulf Molau, Maria Assunção Faus da Silva Dias, Andrew Solow, Dáithí A. Stone, Lourdes Tibig
Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
This chapter synthesizes the scientific literature on the detection and attribution of observed changes in natural and human systems in response to observed recent climate change.Read More →

IPCC AR5 WGI Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis

January 2013
Lisa V. Alexander, Simon K. Allen, Nathaniel L. Bindoff, François-Marie Bréon, John A. Church, Ulrich Cubasch, Seita Emori, Piers Forster, Pierre Friedlingstein, Nathan Gillett, Jonathan M. Gregory, Dennis L. Hartmann, Eystein Jansen, Ben Kirtman, Reto Knutti, Krishna Kumar Kanikicharla, Peter Lemke, Jochem Marotzke, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Gerald A. Meehl, Igor I. Mokhov, Shilong Piao, Gian-Kasper Plattner, Qin Dahe, Venkatachalam Ramaswamy, David Randall, Monika Rhein, Maisa Rojas, Christopher Sabine, Drew Shindell, Thomas F. Stocker, Lynne D. Talley, David G. Vaughan, ShangPing Xie
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
This report considers new evidence of climate change based on many independent scientific analyses from observations of the climate system, paleoclimate archives, theoretical studies of climate processes and simulations using climate models. Read More →

Attributing Physical and Biological Impacts to Anthropogenic Climate Change

May 2008
Cynthia Rosenzweig, David Karoly, Marta Vicarelli, Peter Neofotis, Qigang Wu, Gino Casassa, Annette Menzel, Terry L. Root, Nicole Estrella, Bernard Seguin, Piotr Tryjanowski, Chunzhen Liu, Samuel Rawlins, Anton Imeson
Nature
This article concludes that anthropogenic climate change is having a significant impact on physical and biological systems globally and in some continents.Read More →

Forcing of Multiyear Extreme Ocean Temperatures that Impacted California Current Living Marine Resources in 2016

January 2008
Michael G. Jacox, Michael A. Alexander, Nathan J. Mantua, James D. Scott, Gaelle Hervieux, Robert S. Webb, Francisco E. Werner
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Significant impacts on California Current living marine resources in 2016 resulted from sustained extremely high ocean temperatures forced by a confluence of natural drivers and likely exacerbated by anthropogenic warming.Read More →

Detection of Human Influence on Sea-level Pressure

March 2003
Nathan P. Gillett, Francis W. Zwiers, Andrew J. Weaver & Peter A. Stott
Nature
This study found increases in sea-level pressure due to human activity and observed that climate models underestimate the magnitude of the sea-level pressure response, leading to an underestimation of the climate impacts on the European climate. Read More →

Carbon Dioxide and Climate: A Scientific Assessment

July 1979
Ad Hoc Study Group on Carbon Dioxide and Climate
National Academy of Sciences
This report assesses the scientific basis for projection of possible future climatic changes resulting from man-made releases of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.Read More →