Atmospheric analysis

NIWA has been using advanced scientific instruments to measure atmospheric trace gases and isotopes for over 50 years.

  • Ozone sonde launch - captured by a drone

  • New Zealand's best job?

    NIWA environmental monitoring technicians Evan Baddock and Eric Stevens venture deep into Fiordland, NZ to monitor river and lake levels in the area.
  • Summer Series Week 6 - Scientific illustration - It’s all in the detail

    Drawing fish is a lot harder than you might think, explains NIWA’s scientific illustrator.
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    Tropical cyclone update #2

    News article
    Niwa meteorologists continue to cast a watchful eye over two strengthening tropical cyclones in the South Pacific.
  • NIWA's Hotspot Watch

    Hotspot
    A weekly update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.
  • Tropical cyclone update #1

    News article
    NIWA meteorologists are monitoring the potential for ex-tropical cyclones to affect New Zealand early next week.
  • Ecosystem modelling

    Research Project
    At NIWA, we’ve developed an Atlantis model for the Tasman and Golden Bays region. We’re also developing one for the Chatham Rise.
  • Critter of the Week: Enteroctopus zealandicus – the elusive yellow octopus

    The yellow octopus is large and clearly abundant, with about one million being eaten a year by sea lions in the Auckland Islands alone
  • The search for yellow octopus

    News article
    One of the ocean’s most elusive critters is about to meet its match as NIWA scientists voyage south hoping to film them in action – and bring a few samples home.
  • Improving seasonal climate forecasts

    Feature story
    NIWA’s climate scientists are working to improve seasonal climate forecasts.
  • NIWA's Hotspot Watch

    Hotspot
    A weekly update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.
  • Meeting the challenge of ocean acidification

    Feature story
    New Zealand’s answer to ocean acidification is a model of the ‘best team’ approach – when organisations pool talent and resources to find solutions to national, or global, issues.]