Dr Iestyn Woolway
Cymrawd Ymchwil Annibynnol NERC (Darllenydd)
Aelodaeth
Contact info
Room: 308 Craig Mair
Email: iestyn.woolway@bangor.ac.uk
Web: Google Scholar; Research Gate; Twitter
Dr Iestyn Woolway's research focuses on the physical interactions between climate and water, with a particular interest in the physics and hydrology of lakes worldwide. This includes aspects such as climate-induced variations in lake evaporation, water temperature, ice cover and energy fluxes. Using a combination of in-situ, satellite, and modelled data, his research aims to answer key questions that relate to climate-related changes of inland waters. He graduated from Bangor University in 2011 with a BSc and MSc in Physical Oceanography and then undertook a PhD in Physical Limnology at University College London (2011-2015). Dr Woolway was then a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading (2015-2018). In 2018, Dr Woolway was awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, hosted at Dundalk Institute of Technology (Ireland), followed by a European Space Agency Fellowship in 2020 - based at the ESA Climate Office in Oxfordshire. In 2021, Dr Woolway was awarded a UK Natural Environment Research Council Independent Research Fellowship. He joined the School of Ocean Sciences as a NERC Independent Research Fellow (Reader) in 2022. In 2023 he was awarded a Dillwyn Medal for STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine) from the Learned Society of Wales in recognition of early career research excellence for his work in the field of global environmental change. In 2024, he was awarded a Distinguished Scientist fellowship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences via the President's International Fellowship Initiative.
Research Areas
- Erthygl › Ymchwil › Adolygwyd gan gymheiriaid
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Global Heat Uptake by Inland Waters
Vanderkelen, I., van Lipzig, N. P. M., Lawrence, D. M., Droppers, B., Golub, M., Gosling, S. N., Janssen, A. B. G., Marce, R., Schmied, H. M., Perroud, M., Pierson, D., Pokhrel, Y., Satoh, Y., Schewe, J., Seneviratne, S. . I., Stepanenko, V. M., Tan, Z., Woolway, R. . I. & Thiery, W., 28 Meh 2020, Yn: Geophysical Research Letters. 47, 12Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Global increase in methane production under future warming of lake bottom waters
Jansen, J., Woolway, R. I., Kraemer, B. M., Albergel, C., Bastviken, D., Weyhenmeyer, G. A., Marce, R., Sharma, S., Sobek, S., Tranvik, L. J., Perroud, M., Golub, M., Moore, T. N., Vinna, L. R., La Fuente, S., Grant, L., Pierson, D. C., Thiery, W. & Jennings, E., Medi 2022, Yn: Global Change Biology. 28, 18, t. 5427-5440 14 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Global lake responses to climate change
Woolway, R. I., Kraemer, B. M., Lenters, J. D., Merchant, C. J., O'Reilly, C. M. & Sharma, S., 1 Awst 2020, Yn: Nature Reviews Earth and Environment. 1, t. 388-403Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Global lake thermal regions shift under climate change
Maberly, S. C., O'Donnell, R. A., Woolway, R. I., Cutler, M. E. J., Gong, M., Jones, I. D., Merchant, C. J., Miller, C. A., Politi, E., Scott, E. M., Thackeray, S. J. & Tyler, A. N., 6 Maw 2020, Yn: Nature Communications. 11, 1Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Global lakes are warming slower than surface air temperature due to accelerated evaporation
Tong, Y., Feng, L., Wang, X., Pi, X., Xu, W. & Woolway, R. I., 23 Hyd 2023, Yn: Nature Water. 1, 11, t. 929-940 12 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Global reconstruction of twentieth century lake surface water temperature reveals different warming trends depending on the climatic zone
Piccolroaz, S., Woolway, R. I. & Merchant, C. J., 1 Meh 2020, Yn: Climatic Change. 160, 3, t. 427-442Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Impact of the 2018 European heatwave on lake surface water temperature
Woolway, R. I., Jennings, E. & Carrea, L., 2 Gorff 2020, Yn: INLAND WATERS. 10, 3, t. 322-332Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Increasing maximum lake surface temperature under climate change
Dokulil, M. T., Maberly, S. C., May, L., Weyhenmeyer, G. A., Woolway, R. I. & de Eyto, E., 22 Ebr 2021, Yn: Climatic Change. 165, 56Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Intralake Heterogeneity of Thermal Responses to Climate Change: A Study of Large Northern Hemisphere Lakes
Woolway, R. I. & Merchant, C. J., 27 Maw 2018, Yn: Journal of Geophysical Research : Atmospheres. 123, 6, t. 3087-3098Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Lake Ice Will Be Less Safe for Recreation and Transportation Under Future Warming
Woolway, R. I., Huang, L., Sharma, S., Lee, S-S., Rodgers, K. B. & Timmermann, A., 1 Hyd 2022, Yn: Earth's Future. 10, 10, e2022EF002907.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Lake Water Temperature Modeling in an Era of Climate Change: Data Sources, Models, and Future Prospects
Piccolroaz, S., Zhu, S., Ladwig, R., Carrea, L., Oliver, S., Piotrowski, A. P., Ptak, M., Shinohara, R., Sojka, M., Woolway, R. I. & Zhu, D. Z., Maw 2024, Yn: Reviews of Geophysics. 62, 1, e2023RG000816.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Lake heatwaves under climate change
Woolway, R. I., Jennings, E., Shatwell, T., Golub, M., Pierson, D. C. & Maberly, S. C., 20 Ion 2021, Yn: Nature. 589, t. 402-407Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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LakeMetabolizer: an R package for estimating lake metabolism from free-water oxygen using diverse statistical models
Winslow, L. A., Zwart, J. A., Batt, R. D., Dugan, H. A., Woolway, R. I., Corman, J. R., Hanson, P. C. & Read, J. S., 2 Tach 2016, Yn: INLAND WATERS. 6, 4, t. 622-636Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Latitude and lake size are important predictors of over-lake atmospheric stability
Woolway, R. I., Verburg, P., Merchant, C. J., Lenters, J. D., Hamilton, D. P., Brookes, J., Kelly, S., Hook, S., Laas, A., Pierson, D., Rimmer, A., Rusak, J. A. & Jones, I. D., 16 Medi 2017, Yn: Geophysical Research Letters. 44, 17, t. 8875-8883Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Loss of Ice Cover, Shifting Phenology, and More Extreme Events in Northern Hemisphere Lakes
Sharma, S., Richardson, D. C., Woolway, R. I., Imrit, M. A., Bouffard, D., Blagrave, K., Daly, J., Filazzola, A., Granin, N., Korhonen, J., Magnuson, J., Marszelewski, W., Matsuzaki, S-I. S., Perry, W., Robertson, D. M., Rudstam, L. G., Weyhenmeyer, G. A. & Yao, H., 1 Hyd 2021, Yn: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 126, 10, e2021JG006348.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Multi-decadal change in summer mean water temperature in Lake Konnevesi, Finland (1984–2021)
Noori, R., Woolway, R. I., Jun, C., Bateni, S. M., Naderian, D., Partani, S., Maghrebi, M. & Pulkkanen, M., 1 Rhag 2023, Yn: Ecological Informatics. 78, 102331.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Multi-model projections of future evaporation in a sub-tropical lake
La Fuente, S., Jennings, E., Gal, G., Kirillin, G., Shatwell, T., Ladwig, R., Moore, T., Couture, R-M., Cote, M., Vinna, C. L. R. & Woolway, R. I., Rhag 2022, Yn: Journal of Hydrology. 615, 128729.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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National-scale remotely sensed lake trophic state from 1984 through 2020
Meyer, M. F., Topp, S. N., King, T. V., Ladwig, R., Pilla, R. M., Dugan, H. A., Eggleston, J. R., Hampton, S. E., Leech, D. M., Oleksy, I. A., Ross, J. C., Ross, M. R. V., Woolway, R. I., Yang, X., Brousil, M. R., Fickas, K. C., Padowski, J. C., Pollard, A. I., Ren, J. & Zwart, J. A., 16 Ion 2024, Yn: Scientific data. 11, 1, t. 77Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Nonlinear responses in interannual variability of lake ice to climate change
Richardson, D. C., Filazzola, A., Woolway, R. I., Imrit, M. A., Bouffard, D., Weyhenmeyer, G. A., Magnuson, J. & Sharma, S., 1 Ebr 2024, Yn: Limnology and Oceanography. 69, 4, t. 789-801 13 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Northern Hemisphere Atmospheric Stilling Accelerates Lake Thermal Responses to a Warming World
Woolway, R. I., Merchant, C. J., Van Den Hoek, J., Azorin-Molina, C., Noges, P., Laas, A., Mackay, E. B. & Jones, I. D., 16 Tach 2019, Yn: Geophysical Research Letters. 46, 21, t. 11983-11992Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Numerical simulation of thermal stratification in Lake Qiandaohu using an improved WRF-Lake model
Wang, X., Wang, W., He, Y., Zhang, S., Huang, W., Woolway, R. I., Shi, K. & Yang, X., 1 Maw 2023, Yn: Journal of Hydrology. 618, 129184.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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On thinning ice: Effects of atmospheric warming, changes in wind speed and rainfall on ice conditions in temperate lakes (Northern Poland)
Bartosiewicz, M., Ptak, M., Woolway, R. I. & Sojka, M., 1 Meh 2021, Yn: Journal of Hydrology. 597, 125724.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Phenological shifts in lake stratification under climate change
Woolway, R. I., Sharma, S., Weyhenmeyer, G. A., Debolskiy, A., Golub, M., Mercado-Bettin, D., Perroud, M., Stepanenko, V., Tan, Z., Grant, L., Ladwig, R., Mesman, J., Moore, T. N., Shatwell, T., Vanderkelen, I., Austin, J. A., DeGasperi, C. L., Dokulil, M., La Fuente, S., Mackay, E. B., Schladow, S. G., Watanabe, S., Marce, R., Pierson, D. C., Thiery, W. & Jennings, E., 19 Ebr 2021, Yn: Nature Communications. 12, 2318 (2021).Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Physical and chemical impacts of a major storm on a temperate lake: a taste of things to come?
Woolway, R. I., Simpson, J. H., Spiby, D., Feuchtmayr, H., Powell, B. & Maberly, S. C., Tach 2018, Yn: Climatic Change. 151, 2, t. 333-347Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Profound daily vertical stratification and mixing in a small, shallow, wind-exposed lake with submerged macrophytes
Andersen, M. R., Sand-Jensen, K., Woolway, R. I. & Jones, I. D., Ebr 2017, Yn: Aquatic Sciences. 79, 2, t. 395-406Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid