Atmospheric analysis

A NIWA climate scientist is awaiting a ruling from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) on whether New Zealand’s coldest recorded temperature will be accepted as an official world weather extreme.

Weekly update to help media assess likelihood of extremely dry weather preceding a drought.

This week’s critter, found from the northern part of New Zealand to southern Australia, is the brightly coloured and aptly named clown nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoenum.

The plight of the penguins of Penguin Bay has attracted the interest of scientists who are studying why there are fewer and fewer of them every year.

Scientists will next month celebrate the diamond anniversary of the world’s longest continuous record of atmospheric radiocarbon measurements.

We would probably be grumpy too if we didn’t have any eyes, however, in the deep sea, where there is very little light many organisms have lost the ability to see altogether.

New Zealand’s climate is changing – and so are our freshwaters.

This week’s critter will forever have a special link with NIWA CEO John Morgan.

The November issue of NIWA's flagship publication, Water & Atmosphere (the water issue), is now out. Read it here.

NIWA and Auckland Council freshwater scientists using fish pheromone samplers have made a rare discovery in two Auckland streams.

CHES (Cumulative Hydrological Effects Simulator) software tool predicts how water flows in a catchment will change with multiple water uses (e.g. direct abstractions or storage reservoirs) and what the consequences will be to in-stream ecosystems and reliability of water-take.

An animal entirely made out of glass? We don’t have to go to an alien world for this but just have to look deep into our oceans.