Atmospheric analysis

Scientists find link between temperature and carbon storage rates

New Zealanders are likely to spend considerable time outdoors this summer, with the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) predicting warm and dry conditions across most of the motu.

A risk screening tool that identifies the presence-absence of shallow groundwater.

Microbes - such as those living in wetlands, landfills or the digestive tracts of livestock – are behind unprecedented spikes in methane emissions.

NIWA has produced a high-resolution regional atmospheric reanalysis dataset, the New Zealand Reanalysis (NZRA).

A new species has been named after favourite Wellington brewpub Fork and Brewer

A NIWA-developed novel mitigation system to remove nutrients from stream waters in agricultural areas

Reducing the flow of nutrients, suspended solids and faecal microbes into waterways by fencing and planting waterways

Building back our wetlands

NIWA is using machine learning to forecast flood inundation in a fraction of the time required to run physical models. 

The rapid impact assessment tool provides a scenario model framework to rapidly assess natural hazard exposure or impacts.

Researchers created national sea-level risk profiles for populations, buildings, croplands & infrastructure under present & future climate scenarios.