Georgia Destouni

TL;DR: The Baltic Sea is unique for coastal marine ecosystems experiencing N losses in hypoxic waters below the halocline, and Nutrient load reductions are needed to reduce the extent, severity, and effects of hypoxia.

TL;DR: In this article, a community initiative to identify major unsolved scientific problems in hydrology motivated by a need for stronger harmonisation of research efforts is described. But despite the diversity of the participants (230 scientists in total), the process revealed much about community priorities and the state of our science: a preference for continuity in research questions rather than radical departures or redirections from past and current work.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use long-term monitoring data from the Mississippi?Atchafalaya River Basin (MARB) and the Baltic Sea Drainage Basin (BSDB) to show that inter-annual variations in loads (LT) for total?N (TN) and total?P (TP) exported from a catchment are dominantly controlled by discharge, leading inevitably to temporal invariance of the annual, flow?weighted concentration, Cf = (LT/QT).

TL;DR: This paper recommends a set of urgent policy actions that promote clean water, conserve watershed services, and restore freshwater ecosystems and their vital services.

TL;DR: The time water spends travelling subsurface through a catchment to the stream network (i.e., the catchment water transit time) fundamentally describes the storage, flow pathway heterogeneity and sou...