NIWA’s flagship programmes bring together experts, partners and technologies to tackle key environmental challenges and deliver solutions to help New Zealand build resilience and manage its ...

Our vessels are world-class environmental monitoring and research platforms with the most stringent health and safety standards. We have more than 40 years of experience working in New Zealand’s ...

Please choose in which format you would like to download the dataset, below. Mean monthly sunshine (hours) 1981-2010 (CSV 3 KB) Mean monthly sunshine (hours) 1981 ...

The Global Warming Potential (GWP) of a greenhouse gas is its ability to trap extra heat in the atmosphere over time relative to carbon dioxide (CO 2). This is most often calculated over 100 years, ...

New research led by Earth Sciences New Zealand reveals that more than 750,000 New Zealanders live in locations exposed to flooding from one-in-100-year rainfall flooding events. And this number could ...

Riskscape, a collaboration between NIWA and GNS Science, is a software application for analysing natural hazard consequences ...

Te Kūwaha, NIWA’s National Centre for Māori Environmental Research is a dedicated Māori research team, with a vision to work in partnership with others to enable complementary knowledge systems to ...

This five-year NIWA-led research programme is developing a system to map flood hazard consistently across the whole country. It will reveal how our flood risk might change over the next 100 years ...

Please choose in which format you would like to download the dataset, below. Mean daily maximum temperatures (°C) 1981-2010 (CSV 3 KB) Mean daily maximum ...

The graph shows carbon dioxide (CO 2) levels measured at Baring Head, NIWA’s clean air station, near Wellington. This station has been running since 1972 and is home to the longest running continuous ...

Data stored in each record include the location of the sample site, sampling method and the fish species present, with many records also containing information on fish abundance and size, and a ...

The projections came from the latest suite of global climate models – called the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6, or CMIP6. The six models used, which fed into the most recent IPCC ...