Atmospheric analysis

NIWA has been using advanced scientific instruments to measure atmospheric trace gases and isotopes for over 50 years.

  • The Fishes of New Zealand

    Media release
    Te Papa has released a publication containing information, including pictures, distribution maps for all 1,262 known fish species found in our waters.
  • NIWA's Hotspot Watch

    Hotspot
    A weekly update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.
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    The seesawing climate system

    News article
    New Zealand scientists are part of an international team that has documented duelling ocean and atmospheric heat transport during periods of abrupt climate change.
  • Southern Ocean seas and atmosphere

    Research Project
    This research voyage aimed to provide data to contribute to better global climate and oceanographic models
  • NIWA's Hotspot Watch

    Hotspot
    A weekly update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.
  • Critter of the Week: Iridogorgia Verrill, 1883 - the golden corals

    This week’s critter is a living deep sea treasure, in a group commonly known as the golden corals.
  • NIWA's Hotspot Watch

    Hotspot
    A weekly update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.
  • Where there's smoke, there's air quality scientists

    A new method of testing air quality in towns around New Zealand has been developed by NIWA scientists that could revolutionise the way communities can measure and control pollution.
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    NIWA launches high resolution flood forecasting

    Feature story
    There was a common factor in the floods that hit swathes of New Zealand midway through this year – they were all forecastable.
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    Scientists let the sun shine in at Lauder

    News article
    Scientists based at NIWA’s research station in Central Otago are undertaking a new set of experiments to determine how the atmosphere affects the performance of solar panels.
  • NIWA's Hotspot Watch

    Hotspot
    A weekly update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.
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    Tiny world first

    News article
    At a pristine, isolated lake near Otorohanga in the Waikato, NIWA freshwater biologist Brian Smith recently made an important discovery.