Datasets

  • Annual rainfall Units: percentage of normal, 1978

    Ministry for the Environment
    Annual rainfall is the total accumulated rain over one year. Rain is vital for life, including plant growth, drinking water, river ecosystem health, and sanitation. Floods and droughts affect our environment, economy, and recreational opportunities. This layer shows the annual rainfall as a percentage of normal across New Zealand for 1978 as part of the...
    Created 2 February 2020 • Updated 3 May 2025

  • Sunshine hours 1986

    Ministry for the Environment
    "Sunshine is important for our health and recreation, and for the environment. It is also important for our agriculture-based economy, for example, for plant growth. This layer shows annual sunshine hours across New Zealand for 1986 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. Data is for a calendar year (January-December). The National Institute of...
    Created 2 February 2020 • Updated 3 May 2025

  • Annual rainfall Units: percentage of normal, 1973

    Ministry for the Environment
    Annual rainfall is the total accumulated rain over one year. Rain is vital for life, including plant growth, drinking water, river ecosystem health, and sanitation. Floods and droughts affect our environment, economy, and recreational opportunities. This layer shows the annual rainfall as a percentage of normal across New Zealand for 1973 as part of the...
    Created 2 February 2020 • Updated 3 May 2025

  • Annual glacier ice volumes (1978–2014)

    Ministry for the Environment
    A glacier is a body of slow-moving ice, at least one hectare in area that has persisted for two decades or longer. Glacier volume is strongly influenced by climate factors, such as temperature and precipitation. Changes in glacier ice volumes give some indication of changing climate conditions in New Zealand. This dataset relates to the "Change in glacier...
    Created 2 February 2020 • Updated 3 May 2025

  • Atmospheric ozone, 1979 - 2019, state

    Ministry for the Environment
    DATA SOURCE: National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) [Technical report available at https://www.mfe.govt.nz/publications/environmental-reporting/ministry-environment-atmosphere-and-climate-report-2020-updated] Adapted by Ministry for the Environment and Statistics New Zealand to provide for environmental reporting transparency Dataset...
    Created 2 November 2020 • Updated 3 May 2025

  • Growing degree days trend assessment, for New Zealand, the North Island, and...

    Ministry for the Environment
    Growing degree days (GDD) measures the amount of warmth available for plant and insect growth and can be used to predict when flowers will bloom and crops and insects will mature. GDD counts the total number of degrees Celsius each day is above a threshold temperature. In this report we used 10 degrees Celsius. Increased GDD means that plants and insects...
    Created 2 February 2020 • Updated 3 May 2025

  • SPOT5 2012 Chatham Islands Footprints

    Ministry for the Environment
    Note: Metadata relates to the mosaicked imagery. This layer has been provided to enable users to explore coverage and capture dates of the imagery. To enquire about ordering the imagery, please e-mail lucas[at]mfe.govt.nz. This imagery is a 10m, four-band multispectral, cloud-minimised mosaic of SPOT 5 satellite scenes over Chatham Islands captured...
    Created 2 February 2020 • Updated 3 May 2025

  • Ocean and coastal extreme waves (4m), 2010

    Ministry for the Environment
    These data estimate the occurence of extreme wave events in coastal and oceanic waters for 2010, particularly for wave events where significant wave height exceeds a threshold of 4 metres and for a period of at least 12 hours. Significant wave height is defined as four times the square root of the variance of sea surface elevation due to wave motion. This...
    Created 2 February 2020 • Updated 3 May 2025

  • Ocean and coastal extreme waves (8m), 2009

    Ministry for the Environment
    These data estimate the occurence of extreme wave events in coastal and oceanic waters for 2009, particularly for wave events where significant wave height exceeds a threshold of 8 metres and for a period of at least 12 hours. Significant wave height is defined as four times the square root of the variance of sea surface elevation due to wave motion. This...
    Created 2 February 2020 • Updated 3 May 2025

  • Annual sea surface temperature difference from normal, 2011

    Ministry for the Environment
    The ocean waters surrounding New Zealand vary in temperature from north to south. They interact with heat and moisture in the atmosphere and affect our weather. Long-term changes and short-term variability in sea-surface temperatures can affect marine processes, habitats, and species. Some species may find it hard to survive in changing environmental...
    Created 2 February 2020 • Updated 3 May 2025

  • Standardised soil moisture deficit 1983-1984

    Ministry for the Environment
    "Soil moisture is important for plant growth. A lack of moisture content over a growing season is a good indicator of drought, which can have social, environmental, and economic impacts. Increasing temperatures and changes in rainfall patterns are expected to increase the frequency and intensity of drought in many regions. Growing season soil moisture...
    Created 2 February 2020 • Updated 3 May 2025

  • Sunshine hours 1987

    Ministry for the Environment
    "Sunshine is important for our health and recreation, and for the environment. It is also important for our agriculture-based economy, for example, for plant growth. This layer shows annual sunshine hours across New Zealand for 1987 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. Data is for a calendar year (January-December). The National Institute of...
    Created 2 February 2020 • Updated 3 May 2025

  • Sunshine hours 1992

    Ministry for the Environment
    "Sunshine is important for our health and recreation, and for the environment. It is also important for our agriculture-based economy, for example, for plant growth. This layer shows annual sunshine hours across New Zealand for 1992 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. Data is for a calendar year (January-December). The National Institute of...
    Created 2 February 2020 • Updated 3 May 2025

  • Ocean and coastal extreme waves (4m), 2011

    Ministry for the Environment
    These data estimate the occurence of extreme wave events in coastal and oceanic waters for 2011, particularly for wave events where significant wave height exceeds a threshold of 4 metres and for a period of at least 12 hours. Significant wave height is defined as four times the square root of the variance of sea surface elevation due to wave motion. This...
    Created 2 February 2020 • Updated 3 May 2025

  • Nitrate-nitrogen leaching from sheep livestock 2017

    Ministry for the Environment
    Raster layer with 100m * 100m pixels, Each pixel represents the estimated nitrate-N leached in kg/ha/yr. This layer contains all nitrate leaching estimated from sheep. More information on this dataset and how it relates to our environmental reporting indicators and topics can be found in the attached data quality pdf.
    Created 2 February 2020 • Updated 3 May 2025

  • Annual rainfall Units: percentage of normal, 2013

    Ministry for the Environment
    Annual rainfall is the total accumulated rain over one year. Rain is vital for life, including plant growth, drinking water, river ecosystem health, and sanitation. Floods and droughts affect our environment, economy, and recreational opportunities. This layer shows the annual rainfall as a percentage of normal across New Zealand for 2013 as part of the...
    Created 2 February 2020 • Updated 3 May 2025

  • Annual rainfall Units: percentage of normal, 2009

    Ministry for the Environment
    Annual rainfall is the total accumulated rain over one year. Rain is vital for life, including plant growth, drinking water, river ecosystem health, and sanitation. Floods and droughts affect our environment, economy, and recreational opportunities. This layer shows the annual rainfall as a percentage of normal across New Zealand for 2009 as part of the...
    Created 2 February 2020 • Updated 3 May 2025

  • Sunshine hours 1994

    Ministry for the Environment
    "Sunshine is important for our health and recreation, and for the environment. It is also important for our agriculture-based economy, for example, for plant growth. This layer shows annual sunshine hours across New Zealand for 1994 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. Data is for a calendar year (January-December). The National Institute of...
    Created 2 February 2020 • Updated 3 May 2025

  • Units: percentage of normal sunshine hours 2011

    Ministry for the Environment
    "Sunshine is important for our health and recreation, and for the environment. It is also important for our agriculture-based economy, for example, for plant growth. This layer shows percentage of normal sunshine hours across New Zealand for 2011 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. Data is for a calendar year (January–December). The...
    Created 2 February 2020 • Updated 3 May 2025

  • Ocean and coastal extreme waves (8m), 2011

    Ministry for the Environment
    These data estimate the occurence of extreme wave events in coastal and oceanic waters for 2011, particularly for wave events where significant wave height exceeds a threshold of 8 metres and for a period of at least 12 hours. Significant wave height is defined as four times the square root of the variance of sea surface elevation due to wave motion. This...
    Created 2 February 2020 • Updated 3 May 2025