Atmospheric analysis

A trio of lead authors from NIWA has been named alongside the Ministry for the Environment and others as joint winner of the 2018 Terry Healy Coastal Project Award.

The driest soils across the North Island compared to normal for this time of the year are found in parts of Northland, Taupo, and Tararua District. A small hotspot is currently in place in northwestern Marlborough.

An abnormal El Niño weather event is looking likely for New Zealand over summer, according to NIWA meteorologist Ben Noll.

18 Nov 2018. NIWA Blake Ambassador—Lana Young—explains how bongo nets are deployed to collect plankton around the clock on board the RV Tangaroa.

16 November 2018. By Voyage Leader Dr Moira Decima.

The driest soils across the North Island compared to normal for this time of the year are found in Whangarei and Kaipara districts, along with Taupo and Tararua. No hotspots are currently in place in the South Island.

13 November 2018. By Voyage Leader Dr Moira Decima.

The aim of the voyage was to enhance our capability to acoustically detect and characterise liquid and gaseous targets in the water column.

The NZWaM – Hydro project is led by NIWA but all work is conducted in collaboration with our project partners.

NZWaM-Hydro is scalable, and the hydrological relationships in the model are transferable between locations.

Bringing together leading scientific organisations and regional councils, this project aims to develop a sophisticated computer modelling framework that will enable users to accurately predict how much freshwater is available, where it has come from, and how quickly it moves through New Zealand catchments.

10 November 2018. By Voyage Leader Dr Moira Decima.