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NIWA provides ambient air quality monitoring services using low-cost ODIN (Outdoor Dust Information Node) sensors.

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

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

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

The NIWA library collection contains items in a range of formats, covering subjects including atmospheric and climate research, aquaculture, oceanography, fisheries and marine sciences.

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To prepare for changes in climate, our freshwater and oceans decision-makers need information on species vulnerability to climate change.

Blooms of hazardous cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) in rivers, lakes and reservoirs can cause problems for both animal and human health.

NIWA makes a range of trace gas data freely available on our FTP site.

Using a novel observational platform – ocean gliders—this research will observe and understand subsurface variations in temperature, salinity, oxygen and biological factors in water shallower than 200 metres – what we consider to be the shelf seas.