Developing probabilistic scenarios of expected future regional climate changes. As the climate changes, changing risks of climate extremes will significantly challenge New Zealand society, the New ...
El Niño Southern Oscillation: what is it? El Niño and La Niña are opposite phases of a naturally occurring global climate cycle known as the El Niño Southern Oscillation, or ENSO for short. ENSO ...
The Future Coasts Aotearoa research programme aims to support New Zealand to adapt to sea level rise (SLR), while recognising the social, cultural and economic impacts of this change on wellbeing.
Rainfall and temperature tercile tables for several locations in the West and South of the South Island. Data are based on the 30-year period 1971-2000. The ranges for each tercile are: below normal = ...
The Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai (HT-HH) volcano was like a massive shotgun blast from the deep, generating the biggest atmospheric explosion recorded on Earth in more than 100 years. Funded by The ...
Seven nations sharing world’s longest mountain range already impacted by climate change Climate change is already reshaping life and landscapes across the world’s longest mountain range which extends ...
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 ...
The tables below show the probabilities (or percent chances) for each of three categories: above average, near average, and below average. In the absence of any forecast guidance there would be an ...
A New Zealand-led team has completed the fullest investigation to date into January’s eruption of the underwater Tongan volcano. Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai (HT-HH) emitted the biggest atmospheric ...
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, ...
A La Niña Watch remains in effect with a 60-70% chance that an event officially develops by December. La Niña-like patterns will favour more high pressure south of New Zealand over the next three ...
The tables below show the probabilities (or percent chances) for each of three categories: above average, near average, and below average. In the absence of any forecast guidance there would be an ...
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