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All transmissions from GMS-5 are no longer received at NIWA’s satellite reception station in Wellington. We are working on an alternative data feed and will be able to bring back these images later this year. Once we start receiving data again, it will then be calibrated, re-mapped onto standard map projections, and archived.

Smelt have a distinctly forked tail and a strong cucumber smell.

Damming water for urban use, hydro-electric power generation, irrigation, and other industrial and commercial uses.

The 3-panel Soil Moisture Deficit (SMD) map shows the historical soil moisture deficit at the date shown (left), the soil moisture deficit at the same time last year (middle) and the current soil moisture deficit (right).

Annual Climate Summaries from 2000 to present.

Developing probabilistic scenarios of expected future regional climate changes.

Shellfish gathering and farming take place in marine and freshwater environments.

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

Rural, urban, and suburban wastewater treatment methods.