Dr Iestyn Woolway
NERC Independent Research Fellow

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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 402-407Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 622-636Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 8875-8883Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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 Oct 2021, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 126, 10, e2021JG006348.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 77Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 11983-11992Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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 Jun 2021, In: Journal of Hydrology. 597, 125724.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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).Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 333-347Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 966Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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., Apr 2017, In: Aquatic Sciences. 79, 2, p. 395-406Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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, 9Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review