Atmospheric analysis

NIWA maintains the national climate database for New Zealand, and can supply data in a variety of ways.

Last Updated: May 2021

Projections of how climate change is likely to affect New Zealand.

At the age of seven, NIWA’s youngest climate scientist, Nava Fedaeff, swapped sub-arctic Siberia for balmy Auckland – and her first job was to learn to swim.

Various industries and land use activities have the potential to impact on water quality and mahinga kai unless properly managed.

This Statement of Corporate Intent (SCI) sets out NIWA's strategy for delivering against its core purpose over the next five years.

Plants and trees along the water margins and banks are called riparian vegetation.

Monthly climate summaries from December 2001 to the present.

View a collection of maps showing the impact of past El Niño and La Niña events.

New Zealand rushes (Juncus): species-level factsheets.

Dry stock farms can cover large areas of hill-country grassland that may be steep and prone to erosion.

NIWA operates about 30 other Maritime New Zealand-certified vessels based at Bream Bay, Auckland, Hamilton, Rotorua, Turangi, Wellington, Nelson, Greymouth, Tekapo, Christchurch, and Dunedin.