Climate

Science Centres: Climate

Climate

NIWA's National Climate Centre works towards a better understanding of our climate and how it is changing.

Information about the New Zealand temperature record can be found here.

The New Zealand Climate Change Centre's first Climate Brief, The Challenge of Limiting Warming to Two Degrees, is now available.

Urban Impacts Toolbox

This toolbox is a resource to help planners, engineers, asset managers, and hazard analysts in New Zealand urban councils understand and evaluate the potential impacts of climate change in their city.

Phytoplankton and Climate Change

NIWA biological oceanographer Dr Philip Boyd explains how the Southern Ocean plays a key role in controlling the world's climate, by drawing large amounts of CO2 from Earth's atmosphere into the ocean depths.

An overview of the present climate in the tropical South Pacific Islands, with an outlook for the coming months, to assist in dissemination of climate information in the Pacific region.