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In this work the water surface temperature characterization during the last few decades of two small\u2013medium Italian lakes, Lake Bracciano and Lake Martignano, using satellite data is addressed. The study also takes advantage of the last space-borne platforms, such as Sentinel-3. Long time series of clear sky conditions and atmospherically calibrated (using a simplified Planck\u2019s Law-based algorithm) images were processed in order to derive the lakes surface temperature trends from 1984 to 2019. The results show an overall increase in water surface temperatures which is more evident on the smallest and shallowest of the two test sites. In particular, it was observed that, since the year 2000, the surface temperature of both lakes has risen by about 0.106 \u00b0C\/year on average, which doubles the rate that can be retrieved by considering the whole period 1984\u20132019 (0.053 \u00b0C\/year on average).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14010117","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,28]],"date-time":"2021-12-28T06:55:03Z","timestamp":1640674503000},"page":"117","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Analysis of Climate Change Effects on Surface Temperature in Central-Italy Lakes Using Satellite Data Time-Series"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5123-8161","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Davide","family":"De Santis","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Science Engineering, \u201cTor Vergata\u201d University of Rome, 00133 Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fabio","family":"Del Frate","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Science Engineering, \u201cTor Vergata\u201d University of Rome, 00133 Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Giovanni","family":"Schiavon","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Science Engineering, \u201cTor Vergata\u201d University of Rome, 00133 Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"88","DOI":"10.4081\/jlimnol.2014.844","article-title":"Climate change impacts on lakes: An integrated ecological perspective based on a multi-faceted approach, with special focus on shallow lakes","volume":"73","author":"Jeppesen","year":"2014","journal-title":"J. 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