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Browse over 34,000 nationally-significant freshwater fish observations covering sample sites up and down New Zealand.
Hosted By NIWA
Categories Biodiversity, Freshwater
Keywords Biodiversity, Fish, Freshwater, River
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View maps and graphs showing daily predictions and measurements for UV levels across New Zealand.
Hosted By NIWA
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.
Hosted By NIWA
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.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Climate
Keywords Climate Change, climate, change, projections, Atmosphere
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View the most up-to-date bathymetry of the deep-water seabed in New Zealand's Exclusive Economic Zone. Brought to you in 250 metre resolution.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Ocean
Keywords bathymetry, eez, undersea, features
The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) databank is a world-leading repository for New Zealand’s plot-based vegetation data describing plant species occurrence and abundance, vegetation structure, and en...
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Hosted By Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
Categories Biodiversity, Land
Keywords Terrestrial Ecology, Terrestrial plants, Land, Vegetation, New Zealand
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The Margot Forde Genebank (MFG) has New Zealand’s largest seed collection and the most diverse forage collection in the world. The MFG database holds over 48,000 public accessions of 2500 mostly tempe...
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Hosted By AgResearch
Categories Land, Biodiversity
Keywords Grassland, Pasture, Environment, Agriculture, Global taonga
Explore this digital geospatial database of approximately 600,000 New Zealand river segments and related catchments.
Hosted By NIWA
Categories Freshwater, Geology, Land
Keywords Freshwater, River, stream, geology
Learn about this nationally-significant marine invertebrate collection - featuring over 300,000 samples collected from around New Zealand, the Antarctic and Pacific.
Hosted By NIWA
Categories Biodiversity, Ocean
Keywords Marine Invertebrates, collection, invertebrates, biodiversity
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Explore New Zealand's coast through a collection of geospatial layers focused on our coastal environment and related hazards.
Hosted By NIWA
Categories Ocean, Land
Keywords coastal, classification
View the Marine Environment Classification (MEC) - a GIS-based environmental classification of the marine environment of New Zealand used for marine management purposes.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Ocean
Keywords marine, management, classification
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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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Hosted By NIWA
Category Climate
Keywords weather, climate, observations
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Explore and access flows and water levels for selected rivers and streams in New Zealand.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Freshwater
Keywords river, flow, freshwater
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View scientific observations of freshwater chemistry data across New Zealand, including dissolved oxygen, temperature, pH and conductivity - all quality assured by NIWA experts.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Freshwater
Keywords freshwater, river, chemistry
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Access millions of marine biodiversity and species distribution data from New Zealand's EEZ, the Ross Sea (Antarctica), the Southern Ocean south of New Zealand and surrounding seas.
Hosted By NIWA
Categories Biodiversity, Ocean
Keywords biodiversity, ocean, marine
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Get estimates of peak flood flows and understand the magnitude and frequency of floods across New Zealand for a network of over 600,000 river segments.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Freshwater
Keywords freshwater, flood, flow
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.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Climate
Keywords atmosphere, climate, rainfall
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Tide forecaster provides tidal data for any point in New Zealand. Forecast high and low tides anywhere in open coastal and ocean waters around New Zealand for up to 31 days.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Ocean
Keywords ocean, coastal, tides
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.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Climate
Keywords climate, atmosphere, weather, events, historic
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Find out how the concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases, including C02 and methane, has changed at Baring Head since 1974.
Hosted By NIWA
Categories Atmosphere, Climate
Keywords CO2, climate, atmosphere, methane, climatechange
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View the long-running 'seven-station' series, which shows how New Zealand's average annual temperature has changed over the past 100 years.
Hosted By NIWA
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.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Climate
Keywords weather, forecast, climate, atmosphere
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Dive into LakeSPI (Lake Submerged Plant Indicators) - a lake information and management tool used to assess and report on the ecological condition of New Zealand lakes.
Hosted By NIWA
Categories Biodiversity, Freshwater
Keywords biodiversity, freshwater, lake, plants
View this network of cameras that monitor New Zealand's coastal environment.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Ocean
Keywords ocean, coastal, camera
Access a record of over 400 historic tsunami occurrences around the New Zealand coast.
Hosted By NIWA
Categories Geology, Ocean
Keywords ocean, geology, tsunami
The Land Resource Information System (LRIS) Portal is an online geospatial data repository provided by Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research that holds over 200 different land resource data layers for Aote...
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Hosted By Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
Category Land
Keywords Land, Land Resources, New Zealand
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The Geomagnetic Database enables measurement of geomagnetic data from observatories at Scott Base (Antarctica), Eyrewell (Canterbury) and Apia (Samoa) and transfers processed data to the global INTERM...
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Hosted By GNS Science
Category Geology
Keywords New Zealand, Geomagnetism, Magnetic fields, Magnetic anomalies, Amberley Observatory, Apia Observatory, Eyrewell Magnetic Observatory, Samoa, Scott Base, Antarctica, Magnetic recording, Christchurch Magnetic Observatory, Temporal variation
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The New Zealand Fossil Record File (FRF) is one of the “Nationally Significant” collections and databases recognised by the New Zealand government. It comprises a comprehensive archive of fossil colle...
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Hosted By GNS Science
Category Geology
Keywords fossil, locality, collection, paleontology, stratigraphy, coordinates, collector, geology
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The moment tensor describes the source parameters of an earthquake such as the focal mechanism (the geometry of how the crust ruptured in the earthquake) and the seismic moment (the amount of energy r...
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Hosted By GNS Science
Category Geology
Keywords moment magnitude, moment tensor, beach ball, fault plane, seismology, geological hazard, geophysical network, monitoring, Seismic event, GeoNet, centroid moment tensor, earthquake source parameter, focal mechanism, earthquake
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The Aotearoa/New Zealand GeoNet Seismic Digital Waveform data are archived and publicly available. The time-series include the GeoNet supported permanent and some temporary network deployments and ...
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Hosted By GNS Science
Category Geology
Keywords earthquake, seismic waveform
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This is a collection of processed strong motion data using the national strong motion network of New Zealand. The products are available for earthquakes at magnitude 4.0 or higher. The strong motion ...
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Hosted By GNS Science
Category Geology
Keywords earthquake, ground motion
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The New Zealand Stratigraphic Lexicon (StratLex) is one of the “Nationally Significant” collections and databases recognised by the New Zealand government. It is a comprehensive database of formally n...
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Hosted By GNS Science
Category Geology
Keywords stratigraphy, lithostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy, Paleozoic, Precambrian, Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Three Kings Islands, Stewart Island, biostratigraphy, tectonostratigraphy, rock units, geologic age, New Zealand, Subantartic Islands, Antipodes Islands, Auckland Islands
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The National Paleontological Collection (NPC) is one of the “Nationally Significant” collections and databases recognised by the New Zealand government. In addition to systematic reference collections...
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Hosted By GNS Science
Category Geology
Keywords fossil, collections, paleontology, curation, sample, holotype
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Ngā Rauropi Whakaoranga provides access to referenced information on how Māori used plants and other organisms to live in Aotearoa - New Zealand, particularly before the arrival of Europeans. It now a...
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Hosted By Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
Category Biodiversity
Keywords Biodiversity, Land
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The Allan Herbarium contains plant species from around the world but specialises in indigenous and exotic plants of the Aotearoa – New Zealand region and the South Pacific. There are over 620,000 spec...
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Hosted By Manaaki Wheuna Landcare Research
Category Biodiversity
Keywords Biodiversity, Terrestrial plants, New Zealand
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S-map is a digital soil map for Aotearoa – New Zealand. S-map’s goal is to provide precise and accurate soil information to support sustainable management of our soil resource. S-map data contains fun...
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Hosted By Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
Category Land
Keywords Soils, Land, New Zealand, Digital Soil Map, Maps
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The New Zealand Land Resource Inventory (NZLRI) is a national spatial database of physical land resource information. It comprises an inventory of five physical factors (rock type, soil, slope, presen...
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Hosted By Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
Category Land
Keywords Land, Soils, Land Resources, New Zealand
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The New Zealand Land Cover Database (LCDB) is a multi-temporal, thematic classification of New Zealand's land cover. It identifies 33 mainland land cover classes (35 classes once the offshore Chatham ...
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Hosted By Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
Categories Land, Biodiversity
Keywords Land Cover, Biodiversity, Vegetation, New Zealand
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The National Soils Database (NSD) is part of the National Soils Data Repository which is a repository for over 8000 soil observations, including soil analytical results, across New Zealand. The Nation...
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Hosted By Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
Category Land
Keywords Soils, Land Resources, New Zealand
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This database summarises incursion response and eradication programmes from around the world. The scope of the database is terrestrial arthropod pests and plant pathogens. Weeds, vertebrate pests, aqu...
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Hosted By The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited
Keywords pests, plant pathogens, biosecurity, invaders, eradication
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The Biological Control Agents introduced to New Zealand (BCANZ) online database contains complete information on the biological control agents that have been introduced to New Zealand to help manage w...
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Hosted By The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited
Keywords Biological Control Agents, weeds, invertebrate pests, pests
The GGW database is operated and maintained by the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited (GNS Science). It contains geochemical (chemistry and sampling), hydrological, geological and/or...
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Hosted By GNS Science
Category Geology
Keywords Groundwater chemistry, Database, Fluid chemistry, Air quality data, Geothermal features, New Zealand, Raoul Island
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A collection of digital geological maps in GIS formats comprising geological, geophysical and topographic layers. Some geological map products include other components such as printed maps, printable ...
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Hosted By GNS Science
Categories Land, Geology
Keywords New Zealand, ANTARCTICA, GEOLOGIC MAPS, stratigraphy, structural geology, geological units, rock units, topography, Stewart Island
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Petlab is New Zealand’s national rock, mineral and geoanalytical database. It is operated by GNS Science, with GNS Science, Auckland, Waikato, Massey, Victoria, Canterbury and Otago universities all c...
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Hosted By GNS Science
Categories Land, Geology
Keywords New Zealand, ANTARCTICA, petrology, mineral, rock, geochronology, geochemistry
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The landmark 518-page publication "Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand" by Beu & Maxwell (1990, NZGS Paleontological Bulletin 58) is long out of print. This publication by Beu & Raine (2009, GNS Science ...
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Hosted By GNS Science
Category Geology
Keywords New Zealand, paleontology, taxonomy, Mollusca, Cenozoic, Chatham Islands, Campbell Island
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The GNS Science Photo Library, now named the Visual Media Library (VML), contains over 200,000 stock images featuring aerial views, landscapes, geological features and scientific research including vo...
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Hosted By GNS Science
Category Geology
Keywords PHOTOGRAPHS, SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, GEOLOGY, LANDFORMS, EARTHQUAKES, VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS, VOLCANOES, RIVERS, COASTS, MINERALS, FOSSILS, ROCKS, LANDSLIDES, FAULTS, MARINE GEOSCIENCE, ISOTOPES, LABORATORIES, GEOTHERMAL, EROSION, TSUNAMI, LANDSCAPES, MINING, ENERGY, GLOBAL CHANGE
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New Zealand Tsunami Database includes information about tsunamis that have reached the coastline of New Zealand since humans arrived in this land until the present day. The database is primarily the w...
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Hosted By GNS Science
Category Geology
Keywords tsunami, historical, impact, risk, hazard, record, wave
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This dataset defines the maximum expected tsunami height (maximum amplitude) for return periods of 100, 500 and 2500 years at the 50th and 84th percentile of confidence, as estimated by the model desc...
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Hosted By GNS Science
Category Geology
Keywords tsunami, risk, hazard, record, wave, New Zealand, Chatham Islands, 2013, probabilistic, national
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The archive contains scanned images of published and unpublished, geological maps for New Zealand, its offshore territories and Antarctica. The maps range from field sheets to draft compilations to co...
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Hosted By GNS Science
Categories Land, Geology
Keywords New Zealand, ANTARCTICA, GEOLOGIC MAPS, HISTORIC MAPS, IMAGE ARCHIVE
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S-map is a digital soil map for Aotearoa – New Zealand. S-map’s goal is to provide precise and accurate soil information to support sustainable management of our soil resource. S-map Online provides a...
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Hosted By Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
Category Land
Keywords Soils, Land, New Zealand, Digital Soil Map, Maps
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Land Use Capability (LUC) 2021 is a specific subset of the NZLRI. The LUC rates the ability of each land region to sustain long-term agricultural production, based on an assessment of the NZLRI invent...
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Hosted By Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
Category Land
Keywords Land, New Zealand, Land Use Capability
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S-map Soil Depth is part of the S-map digital soil map for Aotearoa – New Zealand. Soil depth is defined according to a traditional agronomic concept of soil depth. In a practical sense, it can be tho...
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Hosted By Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
Category Land
Keywords Land, Soils, New Zealand, Soil Depth
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S-map Soil Drainage is part of the S-map digital soil map for Aotearoa – New Zealand. Soil drainage is a relatively simple classification of the soil profile that describes the likelihood of seasonal ...
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Hosted By Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
Category Land
Keywords Land, Soils, Soil Drainage, New Zealand
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S-map Soil Texture is part of the S-map digital soil map for Aotearoa – New Zealand. The data comprises the dominant texture class of the upper 60 cm of the soil profile (Clayey, Loamy, Peaty, Sandy, ...
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Hosted By Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
Category Land
Keywords Land, Soils, Soil Texture, New Zealand
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S-map Soil Classification (Soil Order) is part of the S-map digital soil map for Aotearoa – New Zealand. The layer is a "dissolved" representation of the New Zealand Soil Classification soil order pr...
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Hosted By Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
Category Land
Keywords Land, Soils, Soil Classification, New Zealand, Soil Order
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The New Zealand Drought Monitor is a system for keeping track of drought conditions across New Zealand based on a standardised climate index.
Hosted By NIWA
Categories Climate, Freshwater, Land
Keywords drought, climate, hazard, weather, rainfall
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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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Hosted By NIWA
Category Climate
Keywords climate, weather, maps
Annual, seasonal and monthly summaries of temperature, rainfall and sunshine data from across New Zealand.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Climate
Keywords climate, weather, rainfall, sunshine, temperature, annual, monthly, seasonal
Air temperature, rainfall, soil moisture and river flow predictions for the coming season.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Climate
Keywords climate, weather, rainfall, rain, temperature, soil moisture, river flow
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Summaries of the typical weather and climate of a region, based on historical data observations made at climate stations located within the region.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Climate
Keywords historical, weather, summary, climate, observations, regional
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Monthly summaries of the climate in the tropical South Pacific islands, with an outlook for the coming months.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Climate
Keywords climate, weather, Pacific, monthly
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Summaries of up-coming tropical cyclone seasons, issued 6-monthly.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Climate
Keywords cyclone, climate, outlook, Pacific
National daily river flow forecasts for 24-hour periods across New Zealand.
Hosted By NIWA
Categories Climate, Freshwater
Keywords River, river flow, forecast, flood, modelling
Data Quality Medium
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Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC): measurements from NIWA atmospheric research station at Lauder, NZ. Includes ozone, column gases, aerosols, water vapour and UV. Rec...
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Hosted By NIWA
Category Atmosphere
Keywords Atmosphere, Gases, Ultraviolet (UV), Aerosols, NDACC, Ozone
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We present 60 years of Δ14CO2 measurements from Wellington, New Zealand (41°S, 175°E). The record has been extended and fully revised. New measurements have been used to evaluate the existing record a...
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Hosted By GNS Science, NIWA
Category Atmosphere
Keywords carbon cycle,, greenhouse gases,, atmospheric trace gas observations
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3D geoscience models in Leapfrog Geothermal relevant to geothermal projects, built from public and/or proprietary data. Models are multidisciplinary and often include: topographic data, GIS datasets,...
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Hosted By GNS Science
Category Geology
Keywords geology, 3D, subsurface, geothermal, TVZ, Asia-Pacific, New Zealand
Data Quality Medium
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Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC): measurements from the NIWA atmospheric research station at Lauder, NZ. Includes total column and profile measurements of greenhouse...
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Hosted By NIWA
Category Atmosphere
Keywords Atmosphere, Gas, Greenhouse gas, Ultraviolet (UV), Aerosols, NDACC, Ozone, Carbon dioxide, CO2, Methane, CH4
Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC): NIWA atmospheric measurements from the Antarctica New Zealand research station at Arrival Heights, Antarctica. Includes total colu...
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Hosted By NIWA
Category Atmosphere
Keywords Atmosphere, Gas, Greenhouse gas, Ultraviolet (UV), NDACC, Ozone, Carbon dioxide, CO2, methane, CH4, Antarctica, Aerosols
The National Forestry Herbarium contains plants significant to plantation and indigenous forestry in New Zealand, including a wide range of native and amenity species.
Hosted By Scion
Categories Biodiversity, Land
Keywords trees, exotic species, indigenous species, forestry
TCCON (Total Column Observing Network) is a network of ground-based Fourier Transform Spectrometers recording direct solar spectra in the near infrared spectral region. From these spectra, accurate an...
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Hosted By NIWA
Category Atmosphere
Keywords Atmosphere, Greenhouse gas, Ultraviolet (UV), Aerosols, TCCON, CO2, CH4, Carbon dioxide, methane, N2O, HF, CO, H2O, HDO
Data Quality Good
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COCCON (COllaborative Carbon Column Observing Network) ground-based remote sensing of atmospheric trace gases, CO2, CH4, CO ,H2O and HDO.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Atmosphere
Keywords Atmosphere, Greenhouse gas, COCCON, CO2, Carbon dioxide, CH4, methane, CO, H2O, HDO
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GRUAN (Global Climate Observing System Reference Upper-Air Network) is a state-of-the-art global network of high-quality measurements of climate variables (ozone, water vapour, temperature) in the upp...
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Hosted By NIWA
Category Atmosphere
Keywords Atmosphere, Ozone, Water vapour, temperature, GRUAN
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WOUDC (World Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation Data Centre) is one of six World Data Centres which are part of the Global Atmosphere Watch programme of the World Meteorological Organization.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Atmosphere
Keywords Atmosphere, Ozone, temperature, Ultraviolet (UV), WOUDC
Data Quality Good
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WRMC-BSRN (World Radiation Monitoring Center-Baseline Surface Radiation Network) - measurements of radiation, ultraviolet (UV) and aerosols.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Atmosphere
Keywords Radiation, Ultraviolet (UV), BRSN, Aerosols
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Biota of New Zealand provides access to taxonomic and nomenclature data associated with Aotearoa – New Zealand’s biodiversity collections of fungi, land invertebrates and plants. Biota of New Zealand ...
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Hosted By Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
Categories Land, Biodiversity
Keywords Terrestrial plants, Land, Fungi, Micro organisms, Biodiversity, Land invertebrates, Plant pathogens, Plants
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The NGMP is a groundwater quality dataset, collected regularly through collaborations with regional council personnel from 110 sites across all 15 regions of New Zealand, since 1990. The network attai...
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Hosted By GNS Science
Category Freshwater
Keywords monitoring, Groundwater quality, New Zealand
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New Zealand’s depth to hydrogeological basement map. Depth to hydrogeological basement can be loosely defined as the ‘base of aquifers’; or more strictly as ‘the depth to where primary porosity and pe...
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Hosted By GNS Science
Categories Freshwater, Geology
Keywords Groundwater resources, New Zealand
Data Quality Good
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ESR monitors New Zealand’s wastewater for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes COVID-19. Check the weekly wastewater surveillance report from sampling across the country.
Hosted By ESR
Category Freshwater
Keywords COVID-19, wastewater, wastewater testing
The Aquifer Potential Map is a preliminary map (version 1.0). This work was carried out as part of the GNS Science Groundwater Resources of New Zealand research programme, and future plans within this...
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Hosted By GNS Science
Categories Freshwater, Geology
Keywords Maps, Database, New Zealand, Raoul Island, Aquifer Potential
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Monthly data of 1km x 1km rainfall recharge to groundwater, from Jan-2000 – Dec-2014. The National Groundwater Recharge Model (NGRM) was developed to demonstrate the utility of satellite data and glob...
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Hosted By GNS Science
Categories Freshwater, Geology
Keywords New Zealand, rainfall recharge, water table, model-derived
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This dataset is a model-derived steady-state mean water table at the New Zealand nationwide scale with a resolution of 250m x 250m. These data are described in Westerhoff et al. (2018) – URL: https://...
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Hosted By GNS Science
Categories Freshwater, Geology
Keywords New Zealand, groundwater, water table, aquifer, model-derived
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A water quality restoration tool that can help reduce levels of sediment, nutrients and microbes. This can the water quality exiting the wetland and the ecology of downstream water bodies.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Freshwater
Keywords water quality, wetland, restoration
Includes about 500 aquatic invertebrate taxa. There's 16 broad trait categories that are divided into subcategories.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Freshwater
Keywords invertebrates
Many of New Zealand's fish species (like inanga and tuna) undertake significant migrations as part of their life-cycle. However, instream infrastructure such as culverts and dams, can delay or prevent...
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Hosted By NIWA
Category Freshwater
Keywords fish, migration
These calendars cover 41 key freshwater fish species and are designed to help people working near freshwater minimise the impact of their work on the fish. Includes spawning and migration periods.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Freshwater
Keywords spawning, migration, fish
Tau kōura is a traditional Māori fishing method commonly used to harvest kōura or freshwater crayfish in areas where they are abundant.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Freshwater
Keywords kōura, crayfish, fishing, māori
These Biodiversity Memoirs are illustrated reference works that capture New Zealand's distinctive marine fauna and flora.
Hosted By NIWA
Categories Ocean, Biodiversity
Keywords marine flora, marine fauna, biodiversity
Find information on marine pests in New Zealand waters
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Category Ocean
Keywords marine pest, coastal
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Useful information and resources on New Zealand's marine flora and invertebrate fauna.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Ocean
Keywords marine flora, marine invertebrate fauna
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Catchment Land Use for Environmental Sustainability (CLUES) model is a GIS-based system that predicts the effects of land-use change and farm practice scenarios on water quality and socio-economic ind...
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Hosted By NIWA
Category Freshwater
Keywords water quality, land use, sustainability
Citizen science database for information on fish passage assessment, catch & release, NZ flood pics and snow depth.
Hosted By NIWA
Categories Climate, Freshwater
Keywords Fish, flood, snow
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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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Hosted By NIWA
Categories Freshwater, Ocean, Climate
Keywords stations
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GIS image service of satellite water quality products. New Zealand wide maps from July 2002 including timeseries, climatologies and anomalies.
Hosted By NIWA
Categories Climate, Ocean
Keywords gis-image, satellite, maps
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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.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Climate
Keywords stations
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URQIS is a resource developed in 2012 that provides stormwater and urban stream quality data to the public by accessing a database of urban runoff quality data collected from all over New Zealand.
Hosted By NIWA
Categories Land, Freshwater
Keywords stormwater, runoff
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Ocean acidification conditions around the New Zealand coast are measured to establish baseline conditions and to quantify future change.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Ocean
Keywords acidification, coastal
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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.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Climate
Keywords snowline, survey
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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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Hosted By NIWA
Categories Land, Climate, Freshwater
Keywords flooding, citizen-science, PHOTOGRAPHS, database
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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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Hosted By NIWA
Categories Ocean, Climate, Land
Keywords sea-level-rise, Climate Change, coastal, flooding, gis-image, Maps, scenarios
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A wide range of freshwater biodiversity resources including diversity of algae in wetlands through to Mokihinui River project and Patea River periphyton.
Hosted By NIWA
Category Freshwater
Keywords Freshwater, algae, rivers, wetlands
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Any aspects of climate can be mapped from national through to regional and local levels. The maps are built using the national climate database, satellite data and output from global-scale and local-s...
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Hosted By NIWA
Category Climate
Keywords maps, climate
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NIWA's public platform for exploring and downloading open science data, discovering and building apps, and engaging to solve important issues. You can analyze and combine Open Data sets using maps, as...
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Hosted By NIWA
Keywords GIS, Geospatial
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The DATAMAN is a database of greenhouse gas emissions from manure management. The web app has features for viewing and downloading Field, Storage and Housing data. Manure management represents a key u...
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Hosted By AgResearch
Categories Land, Climate, Atmosphere
Keywords Manure, Livestock, Agriculture, Carbon dioxide, Methane, Nitrous oxide, Greenhouse gases, Greenhouse gas
Traits are defined as the components of organisms that can be measured and have an effect on ecosystem health. This trait database for marine benthic invertebrates is a powerful tool for assessing bio...
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Hosted By NIWA
Categories Biodiversity, Ocean
Keywords marine, Biodiversity
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Fact sheets on impacts of sediment on freshwater and estuarine and freshwater fish species using existing scientific information and expert scientific knowledge.
Hosted By NIWA
Categories Freshwater, Ocean
Keywords marine, Fish, sediment
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Educational resources for school students and teachers to discover more about science and technology. Includes air quality experiments, estuaries, climate and weather and more.
Hosted By NIWA
Categories Atmosphere, Climate, Ocean
Keywords education
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NIWA generates ‘Normals’ from Climate Station Observations collected as part of our Climate Station Network. These are long term (30-year) statistics (averages or totals) of climatologic parameters fo...
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Hosted By NIWA
Category Climate
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NIWA generates ‘Statistics’ from Climate Station Observations. These are monthly (e.g. ‘for January 1974') and annual (e.g. 'for 1974’) averages for large range of station locations, calculated for a ...
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Hosted By NIWA
Category Climate
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Fire Indices and weather forecasts for fire management, provided by NIWA on behalf of Fire and Emergency New Zealand.
Hosted By NIWA, Fire and Emergency New Zealand
Categories Climate, Land
Keywords forecast
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Weather reports and warnings for National Parks provided by NIWA on behalf of Department of Conservation.
Hosted By NIWA, Department of Conservation
Categories Land, Climate
Keywords forecast, weather
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'Climatologies' are long-term averages of climate parameters derived from observations. We build our climatology maps using data from NIWA’s extensive national climate database, satellite data, and ou...
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Hosted By NIWA
Category Climate
Keywords climate
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We build our maps of sea level flooding from analysis of sea-level measurements and numerical models and we have verified the results against sea-level run-up observations collected after large storm-...
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Hosted By NIWA
Categories Climate, Ocean
Keywords sea-level-rise
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