NIWA collects and manages significant amounts of New Zealand's environmental data, particularly in the climate, freshwater, marine and atmosphere domains.
Many of our databases are of national significance and may also contribute to open global datasets maintained in other countries. We maintain data research programmes and a collection of online tools and information services that allow NIWA staff and third parties to discover, assess and effectively make use of data and metadata held, maintained and curated by NIWA. In many cases NIWA is providing and encouraging free and open access to this data through the web and open standard web services.
This page lists NIWA current environmental databases and information services, and typically includes summaries of:
- purpose and scope of the database, tool or information service
- availability and accessibility and any conditions on access
- status of data quality, currency, validity and scope of database records or information service
- formats of downloadable data and ways to connect to the data
- source of the data and who to contact for more information.