Atmospheric analysis

This past week I have been based in Wellington. My favourite aspect of being here so far has been the field work

There were floods, tornados, fires and big waves in another year of big weather for New Zealand. NIWA climate scientists review the inclement highlights month by month.

This is a special series of stories put out to the media in the 2015/2016 summer.

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

I have just completed the first week of my Blake NIWA Ambassadorship down in Lauder.

It was only about a year and a half ago that NIWA staff came back from a research voyage to the Kermadec Trench led by their colleagues from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

One of New Zealand’s leading climate scientist, Dr David Wratt, answers a series of questions about climate change in this new video series by NIWA.

Soil moisture levels across the North Island have remained largely unchanged when compared to this time last week.

Scientists are beginning a voyage to the middle of the marine food web today to find out more about one of the most complex networks on the planet.

The mud shrimp species Upogebia hirtifrons (White, 1847) is a member of the large and widespread Upogebiidae family.