Atmospheric analysis

Plants and trees along the water margins and banks are called riparian vegetation.

NIWA operates about 30 other Maritime New Zealand-certified vessels based at Bream Bay, Auckland, Hamilton, Rotorua, Turangi, Wellington, Nelson, Greymouth, Tekapo, Christchurch, and Dunedin.

How healthy is your stream? SHMAK - the New Zealand Stream Health Monitoring and Assessment Kit - has been designed to help you find out.

Find out how you can have access to NIWA's research vessels to carry out marine research voyages.

The focus is to locate, examine, gather, manipulate, analyse and present temperature data, explaining decisions made in the form of a written report.

Providing educational resources to school students and teachers is part of NIWA's commitment to helping young New Zealanders discover more about science and technology.

These datasets are available in a range of formats.

If you list all the historic rainfall totals for a particular month and for a specific location, rank these from lowest to highest, then divide the list into ten equal parts, you have identified the ten rainfall deciles for that month and for that location.

How do hydro-electricity activities potentially influence waterway temperatures?

Plots of UV levels throughout the day at different locations.

The New Zealand Drought Monitor is a system for keeping track of drought conditions across New Zealand based on a standardised climate index.