Pitkäkoski monitoring station in River Vantaanjoki

Research: catchment studies, water quality and quantity research, catchment modelling, hydrodynamic modelling, ecosystem assessment

Sensors: Trios Opus nitrate & turbidity; YSI EXO2 conductivity, water temperature, turbidity, fDOM, tryptophan, water level

Additional data: Grab samples are collected regularly and water chemistry analysis results are available in the HERTTA/VESLA VESLA database (ckan.ymparisto.fi). Grab sample stations are Vantaa 13,1 (ID 608) and Vantaa 13,2 (ID 94357)

Related national discharge and water level station: Myllymäki (ID 2101220) since 1959. Data availability: HYDRO - Datasets (Syke's Metadata Portal, ckan.ymparisto.fi))

Sensor data available: Luodedata (luodedata.fi)

Location: Fixed station for long-term monitoring of the Vantaa River

Publications:
Kämäri et al. 2019, Modelling inter- and intra-annual variation of riverine nitrogen/nitrate losses from snowmelt-affected basins under agricultural and mixed land use captured with high-frequency monitoring (doi.org) 
& Kämäri et al. 2018, High-frequency monitoring reveals seasonal and event-scale water quality variation in a temporally frozen river (doi.org)

Contact:

Maria Kämäri, Finnish Environment Institute (Syke), firstname.surname@syke.fi, +358 295 251 334
Joonas Kahiluoto, Finnish Environment Institute (Syke), firstname.surname@syke.fi, +358 295 251 841