Atmospheric analysis

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All transmissions from GMS-5 are no longer received at NIWA’s satellite reception station in Wellington. We are working on an alternative data feed and will be able to bring back these images later this year. Once we start receiving data again, it will then be calibrated, re-mapped onto standard map projections, and archived.

River floods occur when water spills from a river channel onto land that is normally dry, and are one of New Zealand's costliest natural hazards.

Smelt have a distinctly forked tail and a strong cucumber smell.

Damming water for urban use, hydro-electric power generation, irrigation, and other industrial and commercial uses.

The main characteristic of the Marlborough climate is its dryness. Summer droughts are frequent, and the region is often swept by warm, dry northwesterlies.

Freshwater eels have an unusual life cycle which sees them travelling between the ocean, estuaries and freshwaters.

Developing probabilistic scenarios of expected future regional climate changes.

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Shellfish gathering and farming take place in marine and freshwater environments.

Rural, urban, and suburban wastewater treatment methods.