Atmospheric analysis

NIWA and the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) are working together to develop a new drought forecasting tool.

Since the early 2000s, NIWA has been part of the international Argo programme, which is deploying floats to measure temperature and salinity throughout the world's oceans.

RiskScape is a software application for analysing natural hazard consequences.

Follow a group of NIWA scientists investigating various aspects of plankton which are the base of the Antarctic oceans food web.

NIWA researchers are using remote underwater cameras to uncover the rich diversity of life under the Ross Sea and they are amazed at what they are finding in these chilly Antarctic waters.

This five-year NIWA-led research programme is developing a system to map flood hazard consistently across the whole country. It will reveal how our flood risk might change over the next 100 years because of changes to rainfall and sea level from climate change, as well as due to land-use changes.

Community Air is a family of research studies, community projects and commercial services that empower local communities to engage with, assess and tackle local air quality issues.

NIWA’s research into forecasting weather systems aims to increase the resilience of New Zealand communities to weather-related hazards.

NIWA Weather is NIWA's public facing weather forecasting website.

NIWA is at the forefront of kingfish aquaculture research and is readying for commercial production to capitalise on this potentially lucrative market.

Physiological research is particularly important when developing new species in aquaculture, but also for well-established farmed species to further improve production and welfare.

Pacific oysters were introduced in New Zealand and have a moderately complex life-cycle.