2015-2016
Climate Present and Past website begun development
Update of Indian Ocean Dipole Index
Update of Coupled ENSO Index
Update of Southern Annular Mode Index
Update of Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation Index
Update of South Pacific Dipole Index
Update of Kidson synoptic types
Update on New Zealand glacier inventory and terminal position of Southern Alps ice using remotely sensed data
Maintenance of the New Zealand 7 station temperature series
GIS database of SPCZ position resolved every 0.25 degrees longitude at a seasonal level 1951-present
Advice on the Matukituki Valley to Jonathan Carravick of Leeds University
Assisted Royden Thomson on a U3A day field trip from Cromwell from Coronet Pk to discuss the glacial geology of the Kawarau River
Scanning of pressure series to be delivered to the International Surface Pressure Databank
Keying of New Plymouth and Hokitika pressure data to be submitted to the International Surface Pressure Databank
2014-2015
TRMM rainfall monthly maps for the Southwest Pacific
Maintenance of NINO Sea surface temperature indices
Maintenance of El Niño Modoki Index
Maintenance of Southern Oscillation Index
Provision of snowline photo data to Victoria University Wellington (Jeff Welter's PhD)
Rolleston Glacier data supplied to Dr Heather Purdie, University of Canterbury
Brewster Glacier data provided to Dr Nic Cullen, University of Otago
Update of southwest Pacific tropical cyclone tracks for IBTRACS and SPEArTC
Scanning of pressure series to be delivered to the International Surface Pressure Databank
Glacier front position data collected for 56 glaciers and forwarded to the World Glacier Monitoring Service
Ipy notebook for forward modelling of oxygen isotopes in kauri tree rings with a widget function
Markov Chains simulation code for generating synthetic daily wind anomaly fields based on a prescribed base climate state for the SW Pacific
Updated Trenberth circulation indices for New Zealand
Maintenance of the Kidson synoptic types
Maintenance of the New Zealand 7 station temperature series
1950-present SPCZ position maps for main seasons and half-year intervals from Omega 500hPa reanalysis data
NIWA Ancient kauri archive certificates of analysis for wood (32 issued)
2013-2014
TRMM rainfall monthly maps for the Southwest Pacific
Maintenance of NINO Sea surface temperature indices
Maintenance of El Niño Modoki index
Maintenance of Southern Oscillation Index
Provision of climate data and climate response function templates for tree ring work (Tom Brookman's PhD)
End of Summer Snowline data provided to Tasman District Council for hydro feasibility study
Rolleston Glacier data supplied to Dr Heather Purdie, University of Canterbury
Brewster Glacier data provided to Dr Nic Cullen, University of Otago
Update of southwest Pacific tropical cyclone tracks for IBTRACS and SPEArTC
Provision of 10 New Zealand pressure series to the International Surface Pressure Databank
Glacier front position data collected for 56 glaciers and forwarded to the World Glacier Monitoring Service
SST and geopotential height composite anomaly plots (archetypes) for SAM negative and positive phases
Ipy notebook for undertaking tree ring chronology analysis - detrending and chronology construction
Ipy notebook for forward modelling of oxygen isotopes in kauri tree rings
Ipy notebook for chronologic spacing of extracted meteorological data from CliDb
Derivation of high resolution gridded SST data around Pacific Islands for University of Auckland collaborators.
Updated Trenberth circulation indices for New Zealand
Maintenance of the Kidson synoptic types
2012-2013
Climate data provided to Ailie Gallant, University of Melbourne
Provision of 10 New Zealand pressure series to the International Surface Pressure Databank
Past Interpretation of Climate Tool (PICT)
Maintenance of NINO Sea surface temperature indices
Maintenance of El Niño Modoki index
Maintenance of Southern Oscillation Index
Provision of climate data and climate response function templates for tree ring work (Tom Brookman's PhD)
TRMM rainfall monthly maps for the Southwest Pacific
End of Summer Snowline data provided to Tasman District Council for hydro feasibility study
Rolleston Glacier data supplied to Dr Heather Purdie, University of Canterbury
Brewster Glacier data provided to Dr Nic Cullen, University of Otago
End of Summer Snowline data provided to Snow and Ice Resarch Group (SIRG) New Zealand
Update of southwest Pacific tropical cyclone tracks for IBTRACS and SPEArTC
2011-2012
Homogenised temperature series for Tauranga, provided to Ailie Gallant for J. Climate teleconnections paper
Provision of Kiribati rainfall data to University of Giessen PhD student
Kidson types are updated using the twice-daily fields of 1000 hPa height from the NCEP / NCAR reanalysis system, which is updated continuously since the period of analysis used in Kidson 2000 (1958 – 1997).
Mapping of surface geomorphology features at Lake Tennyson in conjunction with a NIWA innovative seed fund project.