Atmospheric analysis

Coast Care provides an opportunity for local communities to get involved in the management and protection of their local coastal area and address environmental issues with their beaches.

Beach profile monitoring is usually undertaken as survey transects running shore normal from the dune to the low water mark. It provides information that can be used to assess whether a shoreline is eroding or accreting.

The coastal type classification describes the coast in terms of exposure, the type of foreshore sediment, inland and coastal geography.

NIWA's has mapped the seabed off the coast of Otago, revealing the structure of nine canyons in the Great South Basin. This survey is providing new information about geological processes in the region as well as clues to what types of life might exist on the seafloor. 

NIWA Quantum Map is developed by Sourcepole for NIWA, based on Quantum GIS and is released under the same licence and conditions as Quantum GIS.

These pertain more to the full Quantum GIS application than NIWA Quantum Map.

These latest infra-red satellite images of ash clouds over New Zealand were created using the NOAA 18 and 19 satellites. 

Understanding how material released into the ocean spreads is very important in the case of oil spills, sediment transport and the release of invasive species.