Atmospheric analysis

Imagine if you could foresee what would happen to your home in a severe flood or tsunami, and then work out how to prevent or reduce the impact before any such event occurred.

NIWA's Freshwater and Estuaries Chief Scientist Dr John Quinn believes the dairy industry has been responsive in the tools it has adopted to reduce its impact on waterways.

New Zealand joins global seabed mapping initiative

NIWA is placing the future of New Zealanders at the heart of its operation by investing in new supercomputers that will significantly enhance scientists’ abilities to solve crucial issues facing the country.

The critically endangered Māui dolphin is getting a helping hand from scientists this month who are beginning a year-long research project to listen in on them.

Like the GMS satellite, the NOAA Series of polar orbiting satellites (operated by NOAA, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) are a component of the World Weather Watch meteorological satellite network.

NIWA discusses, in depth, this year's most asked question—what is happening to our fresh waterways?

NIWA expends considerable effort on determining the age of commercial fish species. But why age a fish? And how do we do it?

Annual Climate Summaries from 2000 to present.

Because of its exposure to disturbed weather systems from the Tasman Sea, this climate zone is often quite windy, but has few climate extremes.

Casal2 is an advanced software package developed by NIWA for modelling the population dynamics of marine species.