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Cam-Era is a network of computer-controlled cameras that monitor the New Zealand environment for research and resource management. These are also useful for surfers and swimmers. Each hour, cameras spread throughout New Zealand automatically make contact through the phone lines with a central computer at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research. The images for each site are then archived (for subsequent research purposes) and placed on the World Wide Web for your use. A series of cameras has been established since this project started in August 1997. Computer-controlled video cameras monitor the environment (for data collection and research) while simultaneously providing images for beach-goers, such as surfers and swimmers.
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The climate database holds data from about 6500 climate stations which have been operating for various periods since the earliest observations were made in the year 1850. The database continues to receive data from over 600 stations that are currently operating.
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The REC has been used to classify all the rivers of New Zealand at a 1:50,000 mapping scale. The area classified comprises 267,000 km2 and 426,000 km of river network.
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This service contains a calculator which estimates the solar energy that can be collected by a solar capture device (solar panel) at a given address, panel direction and roof slope.
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The NIWA Invertebrate Collection (NIC) holds specimens from almost all invertebrate phyla. This is a result of about half a century of marine taxonomic and biodiversity research in the New Zealand region, the South West Pacific and the Ross Sea, Antarctica. New Zealand lies in the South West Pacific, a region that harbours one of the world’s highest species diversity in some marine invertebrate groups with a high proportion of endemic species (that don't occur anywhere else). This huge diversity is, amongst other things, related to the variable seafloor relief and New Zealand’s ancient geological history. NIWA is fortunate to hold a significant representation of New Zealand’s marine biodiversity in the NIWA Invertebrate Collection at Greta Point in Wellington.
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Data collected from 26 representative stations (open or closed) including Chatham Islands and Scott Base (Ross Sea, Antarctica) Coverage: New Zealand and Ross Sea Key output variables: sea level, barometric pressure, sea temperature
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Our Future Climate New Zealand is an interactive tool that explores projected temperature and rainfall maps for New Zealand and charts for a selection of locations and times forward to 2100. They are based on six global models (GCMs) and four Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs). Every combination of GCM and RCP can be explored. You can produce maps showing projected climate for New Zealand as a whole or charts showing projections for 15 towns or cities. Climate variables include temperature, hot days, frost days, precipitation (rainfall), wet days, very wet days, surface radiation and relative humidity. You can look at individual seasons or the whole year and can choose how far into the future you want to look – 2016-2035 (near future), 2046-2065 (mid-century) or 2081-2100 (end-century).