Atmospheric analysis

The Commonwealth of Australia as represented by the Department of Industry (the Commonwealth) has developed Nationwide House Energy Rating Scheme (NatHERS) climate files 2012 compiled from Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) raw climate data and then used to complete a typical year for every NatHERS climate zone in Australia.

NIWA staff involved with the Louisville Seamount Chain voyage have wide ranging skills and expertise.

The Louisville Seamount Chain VME Voyage is now completed and we are on the long steam home, made challenging due to the weather. What happened to those sunny calm days we experienced on most of the voyage?

A specialist dive team venture under the Antarctic sea ice to work on an ocean acidification experiment, and they bring back some breath taking video of the environment along the way.

New Zealand will get hotter, have more heavy rainfalls, and experience more days when the fire risk is extreme, the latest international report on climate change impacts reveals.

Acidification of the world’s oceans from rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels reduces the availability of carbonate required by some marine organisms to build shells and skeletons, and potentially affects their ability to maintain existing structures.

Journalists are advised that the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is to be released in Yokohama, Japan at 1pm (NZ time) on Monday, 31 M

NIWA scientist Cliff Law was today awarded the prestigious 2013 Hutchinson Medal, by the International Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Online statistics tools, including a detection calculator, a kappa calculator and a Lin's concordance calculator are now accessible as Python 3.x code stored in Github.

Ocean chemistry is changing rapidly due to the influx of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, largely from human activities including the combustion of fossil fuels.

Among the colour and spectacle of this week's Wairarapa Balloon Fiesta will be a small but crucial flying contraption known as a helikite.

Rarely seen fish caught in the Kermadec Trench have enabled scientists to better understand just how deep fish can survive in the ocean.