Category: Climate

View maps and graphs showing daily predictions and measurements for UV levels across New Zealand.
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Categories Atmosphere, Climate
Keywords Atmosphere, UV, Ozone
Thinking about solar power? Plug in the numbers with this online calculator to estimate how much energy your solar panel will capture.
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Categories Atmosphere, Climate
Keywords solar, energy, calculator, atmosphere
Curious about what climate change will mean for New Zealand? Explore temperature and rainfall projections for a range of locations all the way out to the year 2100.
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Category Climate
Keywords Climate Change, climate, change, projections, Atmosphere
Access nationally-significant weather data from approx. 6,500 climate stations which have been operating for various periods since the earliest recorded observations were made in the year 1850. Accoun...
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Category Climate
Keywords weather, climate, observations
Get estimates of the magnitude and frequency of high intensity rainfall for a range of return periods and event durations at any point in New Zealand.
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Category Climate
Keywords atmosphere, climate, rainfall
Browse a catalogue of major weather events in New Zealand over the last 200 years from the 1800s to the present, when significant damage or casualties occurred.
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Category Climate
Keywords climate, atmosphere, weather, events, historic
Find out how the concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases, including C02 and methane, has changed at Baring Head since 1974.
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Categories Atmosphere, Climate
Keywords CO2, climate, atmosphere, methane, climatechange
View the long-running 'seven-station' series, which shows how New Zealand's average annual temperature has changed over the past 100 years.
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Category Climate
Keywords atmosphere, climate, temperature, record
See the weather and climate for locations across New Zealand – for the next 24 hours and beyond forecasted by NIWA's High Performance Computers and moderate by NIWA's team of weather experts.
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Category Climate
Keywords weather, forecast, climate, atmosphere
The New Zealand Drought Monitor is a system for keeping track of drought conditions across New Zealand based on a standardised climate index.
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Categories Climate, Freshwater, Land
Keywords drought, climate, hazard, weather, rainfall
Daily maps showing soil moisture deficit, soil moisture anomaly, last 15 days rain, month-to-date rain, last 15 days sun, month-to-date sun, last 15 days temperature, month-to-date temperature, last 3...
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Category Climate
Keywords climate, weather, maps
Annual, seasonal and monthly summaries of temperature, rainfall and sunshine data from across New Zealand.
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Category Climate
Keywords climate, weather, rainfall, sunshine, temperature, annual, monthly, seasonal
Air temperature, rainfall, soil moisture and river flow predictions for the coming season.
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Category Climate
Keywords climate, weather, rainfall, rain, temperature, soil moisture, river flow
Summaries of the typical weather and climate of a region, based on historical data observations made at climate stations located within the region.
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Category Climate
Keywords historical, weather, summary, climate, observations, regional
Monthly summaries of the climate in the tropical South Pacific islands, with an outlook for the coming months.
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Category Climate
Keywords climate, weather, Pacific, monthly
Summaries of up-coming tropical cyclone seasons, issued 6-monthly.
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Category Climate
Keywords cyclone, climate, outlook, Pacific
National daily river flow forecasts for 24-hour periods across New Zealand.
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Categories Climate, Freshwater
Keywords River, river flow, forecast, flood, modelling
Citizen science database for information on fish passage assessment, catch & release, NZ flood pics and snow depth.
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Categories Climate, Freshwater
Keywords Fish, flood, snow
NIWA station information management system (SIMS) is a Web based data management system to maintain descriptive information about environmental monitoring stations around New Zealand. The system lists...
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Categories Freshwater, Ocean, Climate
Keywords stations
GIS image service of satellite water quality products. New Zealand wide maps from July 2002 including timeseries, climatologies and anomalies.
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Categories Climate, Ocean
Keywords gis-image, satellite, maps
Virtual climate station estimates are produced every day, based on the spatial interpolation of actual data observations made at climate stations located around the country.
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Category Climate
Keywords stations
Since 1978 an aerial photographic survey of the glaciers of New Zealand has been carried out. The primary purpose of the survey is to record how much snow covers the glaciers at the end of summer.
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Category Climate
Keywords snowline, survey
New Zealand Flood Pics (NZFP) is a photographic archive of flooding for Aotearoa New Zealand. Its purpose is to collate photographs from floods that can support evidence-based decision-making for indi...
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Categories Land, Climate, Freshwater
Keywords flooding, citizen-science, PHOTOGRAPHS, database
The maps and data linked from this page provide a modelled representation of New Zealand’s 1% annual exceedance probability (AEP) extreme sea level flooding under current climatic sea conditions, plus...
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Categories Ocean, Climate, Land
Keywords sea-level-rise, Climate Change, coastal, flooding, gis-image, Maps, scenarios