Atmospheric analysis

New Zealand has just experienced its warmest winter on record, according to official NIWA climate data.

NIWA scientists have made the rare discovery of a days-old ghost shark during a recent survey off the east coast of the South Island.

Water clarity or turbidity is the cloudiness or haziness in a fluid caused by individual small particles (suspended solids).

Impacts of hydro-electric activities on water quality and mahinga kai.

The atmosphere is comprised of layers based on temperature. These layers are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere.

How do nutrients from wastewater treatment enter waterways?

An unavoidable delay in a research ship’s voyage to Antarctica resulted in some surprising and important findings about the behaviour of emperor penguins.

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.

Dairy farms operate to maximise milk production

How can mining activities influence sediments in waterways?

Climate data and common terms explaining the causes and effects of climate change.

This is the standard precision instrument NIWA uses throughout New Zealand in the National Climate Network, and elsewhere, for rainfall measurement.