Atmospheric analysis

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

  • (no image provided)

    Float your boat! Scientists use hi-tech miniature Q-boat to measure river flows

    News article
  • (no image provided)

    Scientists set to spy on rockhopper penguins

    News article
  • (no image provided)

    French and Kiwi scientists say “oui!” to stronger scientific cooperation in the South Pacific

    News article
  • (no image provided)

    Looking to the past for a complete record of earthquakes in Poverty Bay

    News article
  • (no image provided)

    References and further reading

    References and further reading for Tuna - pressures on New Zealand populations.
  • Vent and seamount fauna - Tangaroa Seamount

  • (no image provided)

    NIWA returns with undersea creatures and footage of never-before-seen undersea volcanoes and canyons

    News article
  • (no image provided)

    New Zealand: first in the world to catalogue all its species through all of time

    News article
    New Zealand is the first country in the world to catalogue its entire known living and fossil life.
  • (no image provided)

    What are Global Warming Potential™ and CO2 equivalent emissions™?

    The Global Warming Potential (GWP) of a greenhouse gas is its ability to trap extra heat in the atmosphere over time relative to carbon dioxide (CO2). This is most often calculated over 100 years, and is known as the 100 year GWP.
  • Fisheries

    Spatial Population Modelling

    Service
    The Spatial Population Model (SPM) can model populations over one or two areas, as well as populations in many hundreds of areas.
  • (no image provided)

    Vital areas of New Zealand’s seafloor to be revealed in detail for the first time

    News article