The 3-panel Soil Moisture Deficit (SMD) map shows the historical soil moisture deficit at the date shown (left), the soil moisture deficit at the same time last year (middle) and the current soil ...

The NIWA Biodiversity Memoir (NBM) series comprises technical works that describe New Zealand’s invertebrate marine life—sponges, corals, hydroids, worms, molluscs, crustaceans, sea stars and ...

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Township Flood Challenge is an online climate change and extreme weather adaptation resource for teachers. The lesson packages were co-developed between NIWA, Future Curious and the Aotearoa Social ...

NIWA and MPI are working together to develop a new drought forecasting tool. It uses innovative climate modelling, the latest in machine learning and other data-driven techniques to predict rainfall ...

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 High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF) is supercharging New Zealand science—powering researchers working at the forefront of New Zealand’s greatest science challenges. Attribution, ...

The New Zealand Palaeotsunami Database (Database) brings together all known information about tsunamis that occurred prior to written records. The purpose of the Database is to increase awareness of ...

These pages provide an overview of the freshwater fish found in New Zealand, fact sheets for each individual species and links to other resources. The fact sheets provide some information on each ...

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. These maps (click for full sized versions) are updated daily and are based on data from our National Climate ...

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. The New Zealand Drought Monitor is a system for keeping track of drought conditions across New ...

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