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Publications using ESA CCI LAKES LSWT product
2026
Dinh DA, Tong Y, Feng L, McCarthy V, Jennings E, Jordan S, Shi K, Woolway RI (2026) The current and future warming of Lake Titicaca. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 52(2):102752. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2026.102752
Liu M, Woolway RI, Xu C, Tong Y, Wang W, Shi H, Alsulaiman N, Tlhomole J, Ladwig R, Piggott MD (2026) Predicting lake surface water temperature with transfer-based physics-informed deep learning. Water Resources Research, 62:e2025WR041062. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025WR041062
Su D, Wen L, Huang A, Wu Y, Li M, Lin Z, Yang X, Jian D, Kirillin G (2026) Model-based exploration of the seasonal influences of lakes on glacier behavior over the Tibetan Plateau. Climate Dynamics, 64:26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-025-08009-8
2025
Amadori M, Greife AJ, Carrea L, Pinardi M, Caroni R, Calamita E, Serrao L, Maidment R, Bordoni S, Giardino C, Bresciani M, Fava FP, Schmid M, Ndebele-Murisa M, Nhiwatiwa T, Crétaux J-F, Merchant CJ, Liu X, Simis S, Lomeo D, Yesou H, Albergel C, Woolway RI (2025) A climatological baseline for understanding patterns of seasonal lake dynamics across sub-Sahelian Africa. Communications Earth & Environment, 6:681. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02684-5
Caroni R, Greife AJ, Bresciani M, Giardino C, Tellina G, Carrea L, Liu X, Simis S, Albergel C, Pinardi M (2025) Examining global trends of satellite-derived water quality variables in shallow lakes. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 38:101565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2025.101565
Carrea L, Merchant CJ, Woolway RI, McCarroll N (2025) Factors influencing lake surface water temperature variability in West Greenland and the role of the ice sheet. The Cryosphere, 19:3139–3158. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-3139-2025
Du B, Zhou J, Chen D, Hu Liu, Liu B, Liu R, Wang L (2025) Importance of fluvial inflows in the intra-lake heterogeneity of surface water temperatures on the Tibetan Plateau. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 8:198. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-025-01083-z
Kangro K, Pall AM, Laugaste R, Piirsoo K, Maileht K, Rahn I-A, Alikas K (2025) Two decades of cyanobacterial bloom dynamics in a shallow eutrophic lake: remote sensing methods in combination with light microscopy. Hydrobiologia 852:425–442. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-024-05546-x
Zhong D, Lin Y, Yu J, Gao C, He L, Song Y, Yang Y, Chen X (2025) Long-term algal blooms mapping and crucial driving factors analysis based on Landsat series imagery in Lake Victoria (2001–2021). ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences X-G-2025:1061–1068. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-X-G-2025-1061-2025
2024
Amadori M, Bresciani M, Giardino C, Dijkstra HA (2024) Slow response of surface water temperature to fast atmospheric variability reveals mixing heterogeneity in a deep lake. Scientific Reports, 14:8459. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-58547-0
Caroni R, Pinardi M, Free G, Stroppiana D, Parigi L, Tellina G, Bresciani M, Albergel C, Giardino C (2024) Investigating the impact of wildfires on lake water quality using Earth Observation satellites. Applied Sciences, 14:2626. https://doi.org/10.3390/app14062626
Korver MC, Lehner B, Cardille JA, Carrea L (2024) Surface water temperature observations and ice phenology estimations for 1.4 million lakes globally. Remote Sensing of Environment, 308:114164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114164
Maligaya VH, Baltodano A, Agramont A, van Griensven A (2024) Exploring trends and variability of water quality over Lake Titicaca using global remote sensing products. Remote Sensing, 16(10):4785. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16244785
Piccolroaz S, Zhu S, Ladwig R, Carrea L, Oliver S, Piotrowski AP, Ptak M, Shinohara R, Sojka M, Woolway RI, Zhu DZ (2024) Lake water temperature modeling in an era of climate change: Data sources, models, and future prospects. Reviews of Geophysics, 62:e2023RG000816. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023RG000816
2023
Cazzaniga I, Zibordi G, Alikas K, Kratzer S (2023) Temporal changes in the remote sensing reflectance at Lake Vänern. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 49(2):357-367. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2023.01.006
Wang X, Shi K, Zhang Y, Qin B, Zhang Y, Wang W, Woolway RI, Piao S, Jeppesen E (2023) Climate change drives rapid warming and increasing heatwaves of lakes. Science Bulletin, 68(14):1574-1584. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2023.06.028
2022
Free G, Bresciani M, Pinardi M, Peters S, Laanen M, Padula R, Cingolani A, Charavgis F, Giardino C (2022) Shorter blooms expected with longer warm periods under climate change: an example from a shallow meso-eutrophic Mediterranean lake. Hydrobiologia, 849:3963–3978. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-021-04773-w
Li X, Peng S, Xi Y., Woolway RI, Liu G (2022) Earlier ice loss accelerates lake warming in the Northern Hemisphere. Nature Communications, 13:5156. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32830-y
Matta E, Amadori M, Free G, Giardino C, Bresciani M (2022) A Satellite-Based Tool for Mapping Evaporation in Inland Water Bodies: Formulation, Application, and Operational Aspects. Remote Sensing, 14(11):2636. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14112636
Woolway RI, Albergel C, Frölicher TL, Perroud M (2022) evere lake heatwaves attributable to human-induced global warming. eophysical Research Letters, 49:e2021GL097031. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL097031
2021
Woolway RI, Jennings E, Shatwell T, Golub M, Pierson DC, Maberly SC (2021) Lake heatwaves under climate change. Nature, 589:402–407. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03119-1
Woolway RI, Sharma S, Weyhenmeyer GA, Debolskiy A, Golub M, Mercado-Bettín D, Perroud M, Stepanenko V, Tan Z, Grant L, Ladwig R, Mesman J, Moore TN, Shatwell T, Vanderkelen I, Austin JA, DeGasperi CL, Dokulil M, La Fuente S, Mackay EB, Schladow SG, Watanabe S, Marcé R, Pierson DC, Thiery W, Jennings E (2021) Phenological shifts in lake stratification under climate change. Nature Communications, 12:2318. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22657-4