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Peer-reviewed Study

This category encompasses original research on attribution that has undergone peer review. It applies to specific studies; not to reviews or meta-analyses of the studies.

Earlier onset of North Atlantic hurricane season with warming oceans

August 2022
Ryan E. Truchelut, Philip J. Klotzbach, Erica M. Staehling, Kimberly M. Wood, Daniel J. Halperin, Carl J. Schreck III & Eric S. Blake
Nature Communications
This study shows a significant trend towards earlier onset of tropical cyclone activity in the North Atlantic basin associated with warming oceans. Read More →

Antarctic Peninsula warming triggers enhanced basal melt rates throughout West Antarctica

August 2022
M. Mar Flexas, Andrew F. Thompson, Michael P. Schodlok, Hong Zhang, Kevin Speer
Science Advances
This study finds that increased glacial runoff at the Antarctic Peninsula, one of the first signatures of a warming climate in Antarctica, emerges as a key trigger for increased ice shelf melt rates in the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Seas.Read More →

Climate change is increasing the risk of a California megaflood

August 2022
Xingying Huang and Daniel Swain
Science Advances
This peer-reviewed study uses climate modeling to find that climate change has already doubled the likelihood of an event capable of producing catastrophic flooding in California. Read More →

Methane remote sensing and emission quantification of offshore shallow water oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico

August 2022
Alana K Ayasse, Andrew K Thorpe, Daniel H Cusworth, Eric A Kort, Alan Gorchov Negron, Joseph Heckler, Gregory Asner, and Riley M Duren
Environmental Research Letters
This study shows how remote sensing with imaging spectrometers and glint targeting can be used to efficiently observe offshore infrastructure, quantify methane emissions, and attribute those emissions to specific infrastructure types.Read More →

Over half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change

August 2022
Camilo Mora, Tristan McKenzie, Isabella M. Gaw, Jacqueline M. Dean, Hannah von Hammerstein, Tabatha A. Knudson, Renee O. Setter, Charlotte Z. Smith, Kira M. Webster, Jonathan A. Patz & Erik C. Franklin
Nature Climate Change
This study is a systematic search for empirical examples about the impacts of ten climatic hazards sensitive to greenhouse gas emissions on each known human pathogenic disease.Read More →

Unprecedented Heatwave in Western North America during Late June of 2021: Roles of Atmospheric Circulation and Global Warming

July 2022
Chunzai Wang, Jiayu Zheng, Wei Lin & Yuqing Wang
Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
This study concludes that models show that greenhouse gases are the main reason for the long-term increase of average daily maximum temperature in western North America in the past and future.Read More →

National attribution of historical climate damages

July 2022
Christopher W. Callahan & Justin S. Mankin
Climatic Change
This study combines historical data with climate models in an integrated framework to quantify each nation’s culpability for historical temperature-driven income changes in every other country.Read More →

Annual Mean Arctic Amplification 1970–2020: Observed and Simulated by CMIP6 Climate Models

June 2022
Petr Chylek, Chris Folland, James D. Klett, Muyin Wang, Nick Hengartner, Glen Lesins, Manvendra K. Dubey
Geophysical Research Letters
This study assesses mean Arctic Amplification over the period of 1970–2020.Read More →

Exceptional warming over the Barents area

June 2022
Ketil Isaksen, Øyvind Nordli, Boris Ivanov, Morten A. Ø. Køltzow, Signe Aaboe, Herdis M. Gjelten, Abdelkader Mezghani, Steinar Eastwood, Eirik Førland, Rasmus E. Benestad, Inger Hanssen-Bauer, Ragnar Brækkan, Pavel Sviashchennikov, Valery Demin, Anastasiia Revina & Tatiana Karandasheva
Scientific Reports
This study identifies statistically significant record-high annual warming over the Barents area.Read More →

A multi-method framework for global real-time climate attribution

June 2022
Daniel M. Gilford, Andrew Pershing, Benjamin H. Strauss, Karsten Haustein, and Friederike E. L. Otto
Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography
This study introduces a new framework to enable the production and communication of global real-time estimates of how human-driven climate change has changed the likelihood of daily weather events.Read More →

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