Online services

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

NIWA forecast

NIWA is developing a suite of sophisticated, high-resolution online weather forecasting and information products, collectively called NiwaForecast, which will help New Zealanders plan their weather-dependent business and leisure activities.

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.

Satellite Data Services

NIWA provides a subscription service of live satellite data for sea surface temperature and chlorophyll analysis. Please note this service will be retired by December 31st 2017.

Tide forecaster

Use this utility to forecast high and low tides anywhere in open coastal and ocean waters around New Zealand for up to 28 days. 

Coastal and marine data portal

This is an open layers based environmental data delivery website. It is currently providing data from the Ocean Survey 20/20 programme and will be extended to provide a wide range of NIWA geospatial data. 

CliFlo

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

Environmental Information Browser

NIWA's environmental information browser is a simple interface to discover what databases and datasets NIWA has, view metadata and find out how to get access. 

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.

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.

eHarvest

E-harvest helps to ensure the safe harvest of mussels and oysters. This website disseminates the relevant mussel and oyster harvest area status reports.

HIRDS

NIWA's High Intensity Rainfall Design System (HIRDS) offers planners and engineers more certainty about the frequency of high-intensity rainfalls. 

Historic Weather Events Catalog

This is a catalog of major weather events in New Zealand over the last 200 years. The information has been collated from newspaper reports, journals, books and databases kindly provided by various organisations and individuals. 

LakeSPI

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

Environmental Data Explorer New Zealand

The usual EDENZ website has been taken down due to security issues.

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.

NIWA Invertebrate Collection

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

NZ Freshwater Fish Database

The New Zealand Freshwater Fish Database (NZFFD) records the occurrence of fish in fresh waters of New Zealand.

New Zealand Palaeotsunami Database

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

Statistical calculators

Online statistics tools, including a detection calculator, a kappa calculator and a Lin's concordance calculator.

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.