Online services

NIWA provides online access to major climate and environmental monitoring systems, databases and forecasting tools.

Search all New Zealand environmental research data at the National Environmental Data Centre.

Cam-era

Cam-Era is a network of computer-controlled cameras that monitor the New Zealand environment for research and resource management. These are also useful for surfers and swimmers.

Tide forecaster

NIWA's Tide forecaster provides tidal data for any point in New Zealand.

CliFlo

CliFlo is the web system that provides access to New Zealand's National Climate Database.

UV and ozone

This is the home for NIWA's UV and ozone research, including maps and graphs showing daily predictions and measurements for UV levels across New Zealand.

High Intensity Rainfall Design System (HIRDS)

HIRDS is a simple online tool that can estimate the magnitude and frequency of high intensity rainfall at any point in New Zealand.

LakeSPI

LakeSPI provides a quick and cost-effective bio-assessment tool for monitoring and reporting on the ecological condition of lakes.

Canterbury Wave Conditions

NIWA run a computer model which simulates wave heights across the Canterbury continental shelf and along the coast.

Sea levels

This system combines daily sea-level data from NIWA, regional councils, port companies, Antarctica NZ, Bureau of Meteorology and territorial authorities.

The NIWA Invertebrate Collection (NIC) holds specimens from almost all invertebrate phyla. This is a result of about half a century of marine taxonomic and biodiversity research in the New Zealand region, the South West Pacific and the Ross Sea, Antarctica.

NZ Freshwater Fish Database

The New Zealand Freshwater Fish Database (NZFFD) contains over 50,000 freshwater fish observations from across New Zealand from 1901 to the present.

New Zealand Palaeotsunami Database

The New Zealand Palaeotsunami Database (Database) brings together all known information about tsunamis that occurred prior to written records.

NiwaWeather

NIWA Weather forecasts and rainfall maps for New Zealand towns and cities.

Our Future Climate New Zealand

This interactive website lets you to look at projections for a number of climate variables for New Zealand between now and 2100.

SolarView

This calculator estimates the solar energy that can be collected by a solar capture device (solar panel) at a given address, panel direction and roof slope.

Tide Forecaster

Use the Tide Forecaster to forecast high and low tides anywhere in coastal and ocean waters around New Zealand’s EEZ for up to 28 days 1 month. It also predicts historical tides back to 1830.

Urban Runoff Quality Information System (URQIS)

NIWA's Urban Runoff Quality Information System (URQIS) provides planners, engineers and researchers with information about the quality of stormwater from different locations and landuses and under different flow conditions.

UV Index

Plots of today's UV index are available in graphical form for Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Lauder and Invercargill.

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