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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.

Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk

April 2022
Colin J. Carlson, Gregory F. Albery, Cory Merow, Christopher H. Trisos, Casey M. Zipfel, Evan A. Eskew, Kevin J. Olival, Noam Ross & Shweta Bansal
Nature
This study assesses the impact of climate change on cross-species viral transmission risk.Read More →

Escalating carbon emissions from North American boreal forest wildfires and the climate mitigation potential of fire management

April 2022
Carly A. Phillips, Brendan M. Rogers, Molly Elder, Sol Cooperdock, Michael Moubarak, James T. Randerson, Peter C. Frumhoff
ScienceAdvances
This study shows that wildfires in boreal North America could, by mid-century, contribute to a cumulative net source of nearly 12 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide.Read More →

Climate change will increase aflatoxin presence in US Corn

April 2022
Jina Yu, David A Hennessy, Jesse Tack, and Felicia Wu
Environmental Research Letters
This study models aflatoxin risk as a function of corn plant growth stages and weather to predict US regions with high aflatoxin risk in 2031–2040, based on 16 climate change models.Read More →

Methane emissions from US low production oil and natural gas well sites

April 2022
Mark Omara, Daniel Zavala-Araiza, David R. Lyon, Benjamin Hmiel, Katherine A. Roberts & Steven P. Hamburg
Nature Communications
This study finds that low production oil and gas well sites are a disproportionately large source of US oil and gas well site methane emissions.Read More →

An Unprecedented Record Low Antarctic Sea-ice Extent during Austral Summer 2022

April 2022
Jinfei Wang, Hao Luo, Qinghua Yang, Jiping Liu, Lejiang Yu, Qian Shi & Bo Han
Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
This study assesses the causes behind the record low 2022 Antarctic sea-ice extent.Read More →

Intense atmospheric rivers can weaken ice shelf stability at the Antarctic Peninsula

April 2022
Jonathan D. Wille, Vincent Favier, Nicolas C. Jourdain, Christoph Kittel, Jenny V. Turton, Cécile Agosta, Irina V. Gorodetskaya, Ghislain Picard, Francis Codron, Christophe Leroy-Dos Santos, Charles Amory, Xavier Fettweis, Juliette Blanchet, Vincent Jomelli & Antoine Berchet
Communications Earth & Environment
This study shows that the most intense atmospheric rivers induce extremes in temperature, surface melt, sea-ice disintegration, or large swells that destabilize the ice shelves with 40% probability.Read More →

Attribution of 2020 hurricane season extreme rainfall to human-induced climate change

April 2022
Kevin A. Reed, Michael F. Wehner & Colin M. Zarzycki
Nature Communications
This study quantifies the impact of human-induced climate change on the extreme 3-hourly storm rainfall rates and extreme 3-day accumulated rainfall amounts during the full 2020 hurricane season.Read More →

Climate change increased rainfall associated with tropical cyclones hitting highly vulnerable communities in Madagascar, Mozambique & Malawi

April 2022
Friederike E. L. Otto, Mariam Zachariah, Piotr Wolski, Izidine Pinto, Rondrotiana Barimalala, Bernardino Nhamtumbo, Remy Bonnet, Robert Vautard, Sjoukje Philip, Sarah Kew, Linh N. Luu, Dorothy Heinrich, Maja Vahlberg, Roop Singh, Julie Arrighi, Lisa Thalheimer, Maarten van Aalst, Sihan Li, Jingru Sun, Gabriel Vecchi, Luke J. Harrington
World Weather Attribution
This study analyses how human-induced climate change affected the 3-day average annual maximum rainfall in the regions worst hit by Tropical Storm Ana and Tropical Cyclone Batsirai.Read More →

Climate change affects bird nesting phenology: Comparing contemporary field and historical museum nesting records

March 2022
John M. Bates, Mason Fidino, Laurel Nowak-Boyd, Bill M. Strausberger, Kenneth A. Schmidt, Christopher J. Whelan
Journal of Animal Ecology
This study examines how migratory bird nesting phrenology relates to changes in atmospheric CO2 concentration. Read More →

Quantifying Regional Methane Emissions in the New Mexico Permian Basin with a Comprehensive Aerial Survey

March 2022
Yuanlei Chen, Evan D. Sherwin, Elena S.F. Berman, Brian B. Jones, Matthew P. Gordon, Erin B. Wetherley, Eric A. Kort, and Adam R. Brandt
Environmental Science and Technology
This study employs a comprehensive aerial survey to estimate the regional methane emissions in the New Mexico Permian Basin.Read More →

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