On 1 July 2025, NIWA merged with GNS Science to become Earth Sciences New Zealand.

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The linear trend in SST 1981–2017 calculated from the NOAA OI SST V2 High Resolution Dataset (Reynolds et al. 2007; Banzon et al. 2016). Regions where the trends are not statistically significant
are shaded in white. Contour intervals are 0.05°C/decade. Locations where anomalies are shown later are highlighted.