Atmospheric analysis

These gather top-quality data and are used throughout New Zealand in the National Climate Network.

NIWA has working relationships with hundreds of organisations in New Zealand and overseas.

These datasets are available in a range of formats.

NIWA has developed a real time UV display in consultation with the Cancer Society and Sunsmart.

Estuaries are at the bottom of the freshwater drainage network and, effectively, are a part of it. This means that every time we act to protect and enhance streams and rivers we are also benefiting the estuary at the downstream end.

There are two species of kōura or freshwater crayfish in Aotearoa.

As this region is sheltered by high country to the south and east, it has less wind than many other parts of New Zealand.

At the age of seven, NIWA’s youngest climate scientist, Nava Fedaeff, swapped sub-arctic Siberia for balmy Auckland – and her first job was to learn to swim.

Understanding what happens above and below ground during a flooding event, and how it is different from normal rainfall conditions