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. 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
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
& Kämäri et al. 2018, High-frequency monitoring reveals seasonal and event-scale water quality variation in a temporally frozen river
Brochure: Pitkäkoski monitoring station in River Vantaanjoki (pdf)
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