Story: Weather forecasting
Page 5 – External links and sources
More links and websites
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History of the Meteorological Service up to 1927
A PDF of a paper by J. F.de Lisle, published in the Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin 21 (1984).
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MetService
MetService publishes weather forecasts for New Zealand, as well as showing rain radar and satellite images.
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National Climate Centre – NIWA Science
The pages of the National Climate Centre on the website of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) gives information on New Zealand weather.
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NIWA – web cam sites
NIWA provides a number of web cams which allow you to directly check the weather in different parts of the country.
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Ocean surface winds derived from the SeaWinds scatterometer
This website publishes over-sea wind measurements.
More suggestions and sources
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Brenstrum, Erick. The New Zealand weather book. Nelson: Craig Potton, 1998.
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De Lisle, J. F. Sails to satellites: a history of meteorology in New Zealand. Wellington: New Zealand Meteorological Service, 1986.
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Neale, A. A. A practical guide to weather forecasting in New Zealand. Wellington: GP Publications on behalf of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, 1993.
