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New Year Brings Severe Marine Heatwave To Southern NZ
Tuesday, 3 January 2023, 3:51 am | MetOcean Solutions
Although the early new year is set to bring rain to many areas, severe marine heatwaves are forecast for the bottom of the South Island where sea surface temperatures will reach a whopping 4 degrees or more above average. This is according to MetService ... More >>
Marine Heatwaves Abate With The Start Of Summer
Friday, 9 December 2022, 11:50 am | MetOcean Solutions
For the first time in two years, New Zealand coastal waters are free of marine heatwaves. This is according to Moana Project scientists, who say that the marine heatwaves dissipated just before summer started when cooler weather caused a drop in sea surface ... More >>
Bay Of Plenty Record Marine Heatwave: A Year Of Hot Waters
Wednesday, 9 November 2022, 10:20 am | MetOcean Solutions
Today, marine heatwave conditions in the Bay of Plenty have lasted an unprecedented full year – the longest continuous marine heatwave so far recorded for New Zealand. The warming is part of a record year of upper North Island marine heatwaves, according ... More >>
New Zealand Recorded Most Impactful Marine Heatwave In History In 2022 - And This Is Just The Beginning
Friday, 19 August 2022, 10:41 am | MetOcean Solutions
Despite being in the tail end of winter, marine heatwaves are still ongoing in many New Zealand coastal areas. That is according to Dr Malene Felsing, Moana Project Manager, speaking at the Seafood NZ conference in Nelson today. The Bay of Plenty ... More >>
MetOcean Solutions Wins Ministry of Defence Award
Thursday, 24 November 2016, 1:27 pm | MetOcean Solutions
Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee has announced MetOcean Solutions a winner of the annual Minister of Defence Industry Awards of Excellence for 2016. The company won the 'Provision of a product to Defence for less than $15 million' category for the ... More >>
Metocean Solutions Enters Strategic Alliance with Omc I
Wednesday, 5 October 2016, 10:59 am | MetOcean Solutions
MetOcean Solutions have signed a strategic alliance with Melbourne firm OMC International. The two companies plan to coordinate research and development efforts and offer an expanded level of maritime forecasting and hydrodynamic services to port and harbour ... More >>
MetOcean Solutions maps potential fate of spills
Thursday, 19 July 2012, 6:52 pm | MetOcean Solutions
As experienced by the Bay of Plenty region with the Rena catastrophe, spills into coastal waters can cause substantial disruption to a region’s local communities, environment and fisheries. Pipeline ruptures, drill rig well leak, exposed well site ... More >>
33-year historical data of NZ atmospheric conditions
Friday, 8 June 2012, 11:24 am | MetOcean Solutions
To date there has been an absence of good quality, long term historical weather data to effectively characterise New Zealand’s complex environment. More >>
Warm Weather And Business
Tuesday, 5 December 2006, 11:13 am | MetOcean Solutions
Did you know that toilet paper sales increase during hot weather? That sales of hair-removal cream can rise up to 1400% and salads by 500% with increasing temperatures?! That for every 1ºC over 18ºC the consumption of softdrinks rises fourfold?! More >>
Revolutionising Marine Forecasting
Tuesday, 25 July 2006, 9:42 am | MetOcean Solutions
Marine forecasts are now available at an unprecedentedly localised level and detail thanks to a new web-based service from New Zealand oceanographic consultants, MetOcean Solutions Limited (www.metocean.co.nz). More >>