Atmospheric analysis

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

  • Warmth dramatically outpaces chill so far this year

    Media release
    It's a story of the warm and the wet.
  • Pelagic shark risk assessments

    Research Project
    NIWA has developed a new method for spatially-explicit, quantitative, sustainability risk assessment of pelagic shark population.
  • Shortfin mako sharks

    Research Project
    Sharks are vulnerable to overfishing because of their low reproductive rates and often low growth rates. Most pelagic sharks fall near the middle of the shark productivity scale, and there is concern that catching too many of them could lead to population depletion. In New Zealand waters, mako sharks are the second most commonly caught shark species (after blue sharks) on tuna longlines.
  • Shark conservation one watermelon at a time

    Media release
    Warrick Lyon is heading to the Marshall Islands to teach fisheries observers how to tag sharks.
  • Water sensitive urban design: a concrete case

    Feature story
    The hard concrete surfaces that characterise New Zealand towns and cities are barely likely to register as a problem with most people. But they're never far from the minds of our urban water researchers.
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    Overview of environmental flow tools

    Methods/tools that can be used to assess ecological flow requirements in rivers with varying degrees of hydrological alteration and instream values.
  • Climate change scenarios through to 2110

  • Climate change touch screen - Fieldays

    The touch screen in action at Fieldays.revealing how our climate will change across the country.
  • NIWA seaweed scientist tackling global climate change issue

    Media release
    One of the world's leading scientific publishers has named a paper cowritten by a NIWA scientist as one of 250 groundbreaking findings that could "help change the world".
  • NZ scientists launch their part in bold project to map seafloor

    Media release
    New Zealand’s contribution to an ambitious international project aiming to generate a definitive map of the entire ocean floor in less than 12 years, is being launched in Wellington tomorrow.
  • Our Climate is Changing

    Our climate is changing - we need to act now.