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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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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New insights on carbon forms in China’s rivers and lakes

Liu, D., Shi, K., Yan, N., Spyrakos, E., Tyler, A. N., Iestyn Woolway, R. & Duan, H., 1 Mar 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Science bulletin.

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Pivotal role of snow depth, local atmospheric conditions, and large-scale climate signals on ice thinning in Finnish lakes

Naderian, D., Noori, R., Bateni, S. M., Jun, C., Kim, D., Shahmohammad, M., Alizadeh, F., Kianmehr, P. & Woolway, R. I., 25 Feb 2025, In: Science of the Total Environment. 966

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Global trends and regime state shifts of lacustrine aquatic vegetation

Luo, J., Duan, H., Xu, Y., Shen, M., Zhang, Y., Xiao, Q., Ni, G., Wang, K., Xin, Y., Qi, T., Feng, L., Qiu, Y., Jeppesen, E. & Woolway, R. I., 18 Jan 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: The Innovation.

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Predicting Chlorophyll-a Concentrations in the World’s Largest Lakes Using Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks: Environmental Science & Technology

Saravani, M. J., Noori, R., Jun, C., Kim, D., Bateni, S. M., Kianmehr, P. & Woolway, R. I., 16 Jan 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Environmental Science and Technology. 59, 3, p. 1801-1810 10 p.

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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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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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Environmental controls on the conversion of nutrients to chlorophyll in lakes

Naderian, D., Noori, R., Kim, D., Jun, C., Bateni, S. M., Woolway, R. I., Sharma, S., Shi, K., Qin, B., Zhang, Y., Jeppesen, E. & Maberly, S. C., 15 Apr 2025, In: Water research. 274

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Projected phenological shifts in stratification and overturning of ice-covered Northern Hemisphere lakes

Huang, L., Woolway, R. I., Timmermann, A. & Rodgers, K. B., 19 Dec 2024, In: Communications Earth and Environment. 5, 1

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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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Reconstructing Tibetan Plateau lake bathymetry using ICESat-2 photon-counting laser altimetry

Han, X., Zhang, G., Wang, J., Tseng, K.-H., Li, J., Woolway, R. I., Shum, C. K. & Xu, F., 15 Dec 2024, In: Remote Sensing of Environment. 315

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Widespread loss of safe lake ice access in response to a warming climate

Culpepper, J., Huang, L., Woolway, R. I. & Sharma, S., 11 Dec 2024, In: PLoS ONE. 19, 12, p. e0313994

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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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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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Increasing warm-season evaporation rates across European lakes under climate change

La Fuente, S., Jennings, E., Lenters, J. D., Verburg, P., Kirillin, G., Shatwell, T., Couture, R.-M., Côté, M., Vinnå, C. L. R. & Woolway, R. I., 28 Nov 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Climatic Change. 177, 12

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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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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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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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Surging compound drought–heatwaves underrated in global soils

Fan, X., Zhang, Y., Shi, K., Peng, J., Liu, Y., Zhou, Y., Liu, Y., Zhu, Q., Song, C., Wan, R., Zhao, X. & Woolway, R. I., 7 Oct 2024, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121, 42, p. e2410294121

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Lake ice quality in a warming world

Culpepper, J., Jakobsson, E., Weyhenmeyer, G. A., Hampton, S. E., Obertegger, U., Shchapov, K., Woolway, R. I. & Sharma, S., 19 Sept 2024, In: Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 5, 10, p. 671-685 15 p.

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Substantial increase of organic carbon storage in Chinese lakes

Liu, D., Shi, K., Chen, P., Yan, N., Ran, L., Kutser, T., Tyler, A. N., Spyrakos, E., Woolway, R. I., Zhang, Y. & Duan, H., 14 Sept 2024, In: Nature Communications. 15, 1

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Assessing ESA Climate Change Initiative data for the monitoring of phytoplankton abundance and phenology in deep lakes: Investigation on Lake Geneva

Bonnier, M., Anneville, O., Iestyn Woolway, R., Thackeray, S. J., Morin, G. P., Reynaud, N., Soulignac, F., Tormos, T. & Harmel, T., 1 Aug 2024, In: Journal of Great Lakes Research. 50, 4, 102372.

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Emergence of lake conditions that exceed natural temperature variability

Huang, L., Woolway, R. I., Timmermann, A., Lee, S.-S., Rodgers, K. B. & Yamaguchi, R., 1 Aug 2024, In: Nature Geoscience. 17, 8, p. 763-769 7 p.

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Declining lake ice in response to climate change can impact spending for local communities

Filazzola, A., Imrit, M. A., Fleck, A., Woolway, R. I. & Sharma, S., 5 Jul 2024, In: PLoS ONE. 19, 7, p. e0299937

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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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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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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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Detecting climate-related shifts in lakes: A review of the use of satellite Earth Observation

Calamita, E., Lever, J. J., Albergel, C., Woolway, R. I. & Odermatt, D., 1 Apr 2024, In: Limnology and Oceanography. 69, 4, p. 723-741 19 p.

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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 Apr 2024, In: Limnology and Oceanography. 69, 4, p. 789-801 13 p.

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Ensemble modeling of global lake evaporation under climate change

La Fuente, S., Jennings, E., Lenters, J. D., Verburg, P., Tan, Z., Perroud, M., Janssen, A. B. G. & Woolway, R. I., 1 Mar 2024, In: Journal of Hydrology. 631, 130647.

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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., Mar 2024, In: Reviews of Geophysics. 62, 1, e2023RG000816.

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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 Jan 2024, In: Scientific data. 11, 1, p. 77

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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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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 Dec 2023, In: Ecological Informatics. 78, 102331.

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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 Oct 2023, In: Nature Water. 1, 11, p. 929-940 12 p.

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The unprecedented 2022 extreme summer heatwaves increased harmful cyanobacteria blooms

Li, N., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y., Shi, K., Qian, H., Yang, H., Niu, Y., Qin, B., Zhu, G., Woolway, R. I. & Jeppesen, E., 20 Oct 2023, In: Science of the Total Environment. 896, 165312.

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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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The pace of shifting seasons in lakes

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

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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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Glacier Surface Heatwaves Over the Tibetan Plateau

Chen, W., Yao, T., Zhang, G., Woolway, R. I., Yang, W., Xu, F. & Zhou, T., 28 Mar 2023, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 50, 6, e2022GL101115.

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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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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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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., Dec 2022, In: Journal of Hydrology. 615, 128729.

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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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Space-based Earth observation in support of the UNFCCC Paris Agreement

Hegglin, M. I., Bastos, A., Bovensmann, H., Buchwitz, M., Fawcett, D., Ghent, D., Kulk, G., Sathyendranath, S., Shepherd, T. G., Quegan, S., Röthlisberger, R., Briggs, S., Buontempo, C., Cazenave, A., Chuvieco, E., Ciais, P., Crisp, D., Engelen, R., Fadnavis, S., Herold, M., Horwath, M., Jonsson, O., Kpaka, G., Merchant, C. J., Mielke, C., Nagler, T., Paul, F., Popp, T., Quaife, T., Rayner, N. A., Robert, C., Schröder, M., Sitch, S., Venturini, S., van der Schalie, R., van der Vliet, M., Wigneron, J.-P. & Woolway, R. I., 5 Oct 2022, In: Frontiers in Environmental Science. 10

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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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Six Decades of Thermal Change in a Pristine Lake Situated North of the Arctic Circle

Noori, R., Woolway, R. I., Saari, M., Pulkkanen, M. & Klove, B., 26 Sept 2022, In: WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH. 58, 9, e2021WR031543.

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Earlier ice loss accelerates lake warming in the Northern Hemisphere

Li, X., Peng, S., Xi, Y., Woolway, R. I. & Liu, G., 2 Sept 2022, In: Nature Communications. 13, 1, 5156.

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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., Sept 2022, In: Global Change Biology. 28, 18, p. 5427-5440 14 p.

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