Atmospheric analysis

A weekly update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.

This rare isopod genus Anuropus, Beddard, 1886 was collected in a mesopelagic trawl from the Chatham Rise.

Over the past week, soil moisture levels across the North Island have mostly remained the same or increased.

By day Penny Smale is a mum to two young boys, living on a rural property in the middle of a farming district in Central Otago. By night, she leaves home, walks the short distance to what is essentially a large outbuilding in a paddock, and fires lasers into the sky.

NIWA’s research vessel Kaharoa carried out a three-week voyage to deploy the first Deep Argo floats to collect data on climate change at ocean depths of about 5700m.

The Invertebrate Collection, housed at Greta Point in Wellington, comprises about 300,000 jars or specimens but only about 100,000 are officially registered. With new specimens being discovered all the time, there is a lot of work to do.

Climate Present and Past is involved with maintaining nationally important collections and undertaking field work.

Although New Zealand is located in a temperate region, the country still experiences extreme climatic conditions from time to time.

The Earth’s climate experiences changes caused by natural fluctuations as well as human influences. These result in trends over time for different climatic variables.

New Zealand is affected by weather systems which originate over the seas around the country, which can be characterised as 12 daily weather types.

ACRE Antarctica is a project within the Deep South National Science Challenge.

ACRE Pacific is a NIWA-led part of the the wider ACRE initiative, run by the UK Met Office.