A novel framework for accurate, automated and dynamic global lake mapping based on optical imagery

Zhou, T., Zhang, G., Wang, J., Zhu, Z., Woolway, R. I., Han, X., Xu, F. & Peng, J., 1 Mar 2025, In: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 221, p. 280-298 19 p.

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Decoupling of surface water storage from precipitation in global drylands due to anthropogenic activity

Zhao, G., Gao, H., Li, Y., Tang, Q., Woolway, R. I., Merder, J., Rosa, L. & Michalak, A. M., 10 Jan 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Nature Water. 3, 1, p. 80-88 9 p.

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Drinking water safety improvement and future challenge of lakes and reservoirs

Zhang, Y., Deng, J., Zhou, Y., Zhang, Y., Qin, B., Song, C., Shi, K., Zhu, G., Hou, X., Zhang, Y., He, S., Woolway, R. I. & Li, N., 30 Nov 2024, In: Science bulletin. 69, 22, p. 3558-3570 13 p.

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Climate warming and heatwaves accelerate global lake deoxygenation

Zhang, Y., Shi, K., Woolway, R. I., Wang, X. & Zhang, Y., 21 Mar 2025, In: Science Advances. 11, 12, eadt5369.

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Widespread societal and ecological impacts from projected Tibetan Plateau lake expansion

Xu, F., Zhang, G., Woolway, R. I., Yang, K., Wada, Y., Wang, J. & Crétaux, J.-F., 27 May 2024, In: Nature Geoscience. 17, 6, p. 516-523 8 p.

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Recent large-inland-lake outbursts on the Tibetan Plateau: processes, causes, and mechanisms

Xu, F., Liu, Y., Zhang, G., Woolway, R. I., Ju, J., Chen, W., Zhao, P., Zhu, Y., Zhou, T. & Wang, X., 26 Mar 2025, In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 25, 3, p. 1187-1206 20 p.

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Global mapping of human-transformed dike-pond systems

Xu, Y., Feng, L., Fang, H., Song, X.-P., Gieseke, F., Kariryaa, A., Oehmcke, S., Gibson, L., Jiang, X., Lin, R., Woolway, R. I., Zheng, C., Brandt, M. & Fensholt, R., 1 Nov 2024, In: Remote Sensing of Environment. 313

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Climate tracking by freshwater fishes suggests that fish diversity in temperate lakes may be increasingly threatened by climate warming

Wu, T., Imrit, M. A., Movahedinia, Z., Kong, J., Woolway, R. I. & Sharma, S., 1 Feb 2023, In: Diversity and Distributions. 29, 2, p. 300-315 16 p.

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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 Apr 2021, In: Nature Communications. 12, 2318 (2021).

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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 Aug 2020, In: Nature Reviews Earth and Environment. 1, p. 388-403

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Rapidly expanding lake heatwaves under climate change

Woolway, R. I., Anderson, E. J. & Albergel, C., 18 Aug 2021, In: Environmental Research Letters. 16, 9

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Compound hot temperature and high chlorophyll extreme events in global lakes

Woolway, R. I., Kraemer, B. M., Zscheischler, J. & Albergel, C., 16 Dec 2021, In: Environmental Research Letters. 16, 12, 124066.

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Energy input and dissipation in a temperate lake during the spring transition

Woolway, R. & Simpson, J., Aug 2017, In: Ocean Dynamics. 67, 8, p. 959-971

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Decarbonization potential of floating solar photovoltaics on lakes worldwide

Woolway, R. I., Zhao, G., Rocha, S. M. G., Thackeray, S. J. & Armstrong, A., 4 Jun 2024, In: Nature Water. 2, 6, p. 566-576 11 p.

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Atmospheric stilling leads to prolonged thermal stratification in a large shallow polymictic lake

Woolway, R. I., Meinson, P., Noges, P., Jones, I. D. & Laas, A., 1 Apr 2017, In: Climatic Change. 141, 4, p. 759-773

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Impact of the 2018 European heatwave on lake surface water temperature

Woolway, R. I., Jennings, E. & Carrea, L., 2 Jul 2020, In: INLAND WATERS. 10, 3, p. 322-332

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The pace of shifting seasons in lakes

Woolway, R. I., 13 Apr 2023, In: Nature Communications. 14, 2101.

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A comparison of the diel variability in epilimnetic temperature for five lakes in the English Lake District

Woolway, R. I., Jones, I. D., Feuchtmayr, H. & Maberly, S. C., 20 Apr 2015, In: INLAND WATERS. 5, 2, p. 139-154

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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 Jan 2021, In: Nature. 589, p. 402-407

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Winter inverse lake stratification under historic and future climate change

Woolway, R. I., Denfeld, B., Tan, Z., Jansen, J., Weyhenmeyer, G. A. & La Fuente, S., 1 Aug 2022, In: Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 7, 4, p. 302-311

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Lakes in Hot Water: The Impacts of a Changing Climate on Aquatic Ecosystems

Woolway, R. I., Sharma, S. & Smol, J. P., 30 Oct 2022, In: BioScience. 72, 11, p. 1050-1061 12 p.

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Altitudinal dependence of a statistically significant diel temperature cycle in Scottish lochs

Woolway, R. I., Livingstone, D. M. & Kernan, M., 26 Aug 2015, In: INLAND WATERS. 5, 4, p. 311-316

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Severe Lake Heatwaves Attributable to Human-Induced Global Warming

Woolway, I., Albergel, C., Froelicher, T. & Perroud, M., 28 Feb 2022, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 49, 4, 10 p., e2021GL097031.

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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 Oct 2022, In: Earth's Future. 10, 10, e2022EF002907.

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Climate velocity in inland standing waters

Woolway, R. I. & Maberly, S. C., 1 Dec 2020, In: Nature Climate Change. 10, 12, p. 1124-U91

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Amplified surface temperature response of cold, deep lakes to inter-annual air temperature variability

Woolway, R. I. & Merchant, C. J., 23 Jun 2017, In: Scientific Reports. 7

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Multivariate extremes in lakes

Woolway, R. I., Tong, Y., Feng, L., Zhao, G., Dinh, D. A., Shi, H., Zhang, Y. & Shi, K., 29 May 2024, In: Nature Communications. 15, 1

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Geographic and temporal variations in turbulent heat loss from lakes: A global analysis across 45 lakes

Woolway, R. I., Verburg, P., Lenters, J. D., Merchant, C. J., Hamilton, D. P., Brookes, J., de Eyto, E., Kelly, S., Healey, N. C., Hook, S., Laas, A., Pierson, D., Rusak, J. A., Kuha, J., Karjalainen, J., Kallio, K., Lepistoe, A. & Jones, I. D., 1 Nov 2018, In: Limnology and Oceanography. 63, 6, p. 2436-2449

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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 Sept 2017, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 44, 17, p. 8875-8883

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Substantial increase in minimum lake surface temperatures under climate change

Woolway, R. I., Weyhenmeyer, G. A., Schmid, M., Dokulil, M. T., de Eyto, E., Maberly, S. C., May, L. & Merchant, C. J., 15 May 2019, In: Climatic Change. 155, 1, p. 81-94

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Diel Surface Temperature Range Scales with Lake Size

Woolway, R. I., Jones, I. D., Maberly, S. C., French, J. R., Livingstone, D. M., Monteith, D. T., Simpson, G., Thackeray, S. J., Copenhagen, U., London, U., DeGasperi, C. L., Evans, C. D., de Eyto, E., Feuchtmayr, H., Hamilton, D., Kernan, M., Krokowski, J., Rimmer, A., Rose, K. C., Rusak, J. A., Ryves, D. B., Scott, D. R., Shilland, E. M., Smyth, R. L., Staehr, P. A., Thomas, R., Waldron, S. & Weyhenmeyer, G., 29 Mar 2016, In: PLoS ONE. 11, 3

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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 Nov 2019, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 46, 21, p. 11983-11992

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A novel method for estimating the onset of thermal stratification in lakes from surface water measurements

Woolway, R. I., Maberly, S. C., Jones, I. D. & Feuchtmayr, H., 25 Jun 2014, In: WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH. 50, 6, p. 5131-5140

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Worldwide alteration of lake mixing regimes in response to climate change

Woolway, R. I. & Merchant, C. J., 1 Apr 2019, In: Nature Geoscience. 12, 4, p. 271-276

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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., Nov 2018, In: Climatic Change. 151, 2, p. 333-347

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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 Mar 2018, In: Journal of Geophysical Research : Atmospheres. 123, 6, p. 3087-3098

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Warming of Central European lakes and their response to the 1980s climate regime shift

Woolway, R. I., Dokulil, M. T., Marszelewski, W., Schmid, M., Bouffard, D. & Merchant, C. J., 1 Jun 2017, In: Climatic Change. 142, 3-4, p. 505-520

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Automated calculation of surface energy fluxes with high-frequency lake buoy data

Woolway, R. I., Jones, I. D., Hamilton, D. P., Maberly, S. C., Muraoka, K., Read, J. S., Smyth, R. L. & Winslow, L. A., 1 Aug 2015, In: Environmental Modelling and Software. 70, p. 191-198

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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 Nov 2016, In: INLAND WATERS. 6, 4, p. 622-636

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Variability in epilimnion depth estimations in lakes

Wilson, H. L., Ayala, A. I., Jones, I. D., Rolston, A., Pierson, D., de Eyto, E., Grossart, H.-P., Perga, M.-E., Woolway, R. I. & Jennings, E., 24 Nov 2020, In: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 24, 11, p. 5559-5577

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Climate change drives rapid warming and increasing heatwaves of lakes

Wang, X., Shi, K., Zhang, Y., Qin, B., Zhang, Y., Wang, W., Woolway, R. I., Piao, S. & Jeppesen, E., 30 Jul 2023, In: Science bulletin. 68, 14, p. 1574-1584 11 p.

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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 Mar 2023, In: Journal of Hydrology. 618, 129184.

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Algal blooms intensify in global large lakes over the past two decades

Wang, Y., Zhao, D., Woolway, R. I., Yan, H., Paerl, H. W., Zheng, Y., Zheng, C. & Feng, L., 11 Jan 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: National Science Review. nwaf011.

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Disproportionate impact of atmospheric heat events on lake surface water temperature increases

Wang, X., Shi, K., Qin, B., Zhang, Y. & Woolway, R. I., 1 Nov 2024, In: Nature Climate Change. 14, 11, p. 1172-1177 6 p.

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A record-breaking extreme heat event caused unprecedented warming of lakes in China

Wang, W., Shi, K., Wang, X., Wang, S., Zhang, D., Peng, Y., Li, N., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y., Qin, B., Iestyn Woolway, R. & Jeppesen, E., 30 Mar 2023, In: Science bulletin. 68, 6, p. 578-582 5 p.

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Chinese ice-lake line shifts under climate change

Wang, W., Shi, K., Iestyn Woolway, R. & Zhang, Y., 10 Dec 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Science bulletin.

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The impact of extreme heat on lake warming in China

Wang, W., Shi, K., Wang, X., Zhang, Y., Qin, B., Zhang, Y. & Woolway, R. I., 2 Jan 2024, In: Nature Communications. 15, 1, 70.

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Lake Cold Spells Are Declining Worldwide

Wang, X., Woolway, R. I., Shi, K., Qin, B. & Zhang, Y., 28 Nov 2024, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 51, 22, p. e2024GL111300

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More rapid lake heatwave development

Wang, X., Iestyn Woolway, R., Shi, K., Qin, B. & Zhang, Y., 15 Dec 2024, In: Science bulletin. 69, 23, p. 3672-3676 5 p.

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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 Jun 2020, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 47, 12

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