Probabilities are assigned in three categories: above average, near average, and below average. Temperatures are very likely to be above average (65% chance). Rainfall totals are about equally likely ...
A new NIWA-led study has found that climate change increased the amount of total rainfall during Cyclone Gabrielle by 10%. This additional rain fell during the most intense parts of the storm, ...
NIWA's Crispin Middleton is part of the team monitoring the caulerpa infestation. Photo: Irene Middleton, NIWA. NIWA is part of a multi-agency biosecurity response to an invasive seaweed discovered at ...
NIWA is using machine learning to forecast flood inundation in a fraction of the time required to run physical models. NIWA Climate, Atmosphere & Hazards platform manager Nava Fedaeff leads the ...
A NIWA-led study has found New Zealand’s native forests are absorbing more carbon dioxide (CO 2) than previously thought. Study leader, NIWA atmospheric scientist Dr Beata Bukosa, says the findings ...
Figure 2: (a) Temperature anomalies from NIWA's seven station series from 1909 to 2022. Blue indicates temperatures colder than the 1981-2010 baseline, red indicates temperatures warmer than the ...
New maps from NIWA and the Deep South National Science Challenge show areas across Aotearoa New Zealand that could be inundated by extreme coastal flooding. They show a large storm-tide with the ...
NIWA has developed a Photarium using the latest 3D printing technology to more safely identify and measure fish species that live in our waterways. According to Statistics NZ, 76 percent of the 51 ...
RiskScape has been used to assess climate-related coastal flood risk in the Pacific. The tool provides critical information to allow six Pacific nations – Cook Islands, Republic of Marshall Islands, ...
Stories of tremendous forest fires, huge storm events, and suffocating heatwaves have dominated headlines over the past few years. We instinctively feel that our weather is getting wilder. Are we ...
We’re only halfway through the year, but new NIWA analysis shows some parts of New Zealand have already recorded more than a year’s worth of rain. It was the wettest first half of the year on record ...
A huge global study has used teabags to measure carbon storage in wetlands. Scientists, including those from NIWA, buried 19,000 bags of tea in 180 wetlands across 28 countries. This included three ...
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