Atmospheric analysis

A Ministry for Primary Industries-funded study has shown that grass carp, in enclosures, can be used as an effective means of controlling invasive plant species in our waterways.

NIWA answers a wide range of scientific questions using ocean modelling. These models can be linked to well established weather forecasting models to predict ocean temperature, sea level and the dispersal of pollution.

This system is based on these papers.

The High Performance Computing Facility underpins the New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) initiative.

This is a user guide on non-native fish, reptile, invertebrate, algal and plant species that are recorded in New Zealand freshwaters.

An explanation of how New Zealand beach types are classified and mapped and how the different beach types and their associated hazards are identified.

A tide-dominated system, with a narrow reflective high-tide beach composed of coarse sediments, fronted by wide (100's to several 1000's of metres), low gradient (

Moderate to steep, narrow, high tide beach, with shore parallel, sinuous, low amplitude, evenly spaced sand ridges extending out across the inter- to sub-tidal sand flats.

Reflective + sand flats beaches have a small steep (3-10°), very low-energy high-tide beach composed of coarse sand, fronted by flat featureless sand flats up to several hundred meters wide and composed of finer sand.