“…Hence, this research aims to target the long-term climatic trends of the natural lakes of western Greece, Trichonis, Lysimacheia, Ozeros, and Amvrakia, using remote sensing water area estimations as the main water content indicator. The abovementioned choice, of the water area as an indirect index of water storage, is considered justified due to the converging conclusions of various studies towards the high correlation between water area and water storage timeseries [ 2 , 24 , 25 , 30 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 ]. Moreover, this research aims to analyse the simultaneous trends of importance to the water cycle climate variables, such as precipitation and temperature, as well as human interference in the land use pattern of each lake basin.…”