MfE Data Service :: tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2008-10:feed:layers:category=301162:sort=rMinistry for the Environmenthttps://data.mfe.govt.nz//Annual and seasonal rainfall at 30 sites, trends, 1960 - 2022tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2023-12:layers:1153652023-12-07T02:53:56.990196+00:002023-12-07T02:52:02.160581+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/115365-annual-and-seasonal-rainfall-at-30-sites-trends-1960-2022/" title="Details for Annual and seasonal rainfall at 30 sites, trends, 1960 - 2022"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=115365.395064,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Annual and seasonal rainfall at 30 sites, trends, 1960 - 2022 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 07 Dec 2023</strong><br />
<p>This dataset measures annual and seasonal rainfall trends at 30 sites across Aotearoa New Zealand from 1960 to 2022.</p>
<p>Variables<br>
site: NIWA climate site.<br>
season: Season or Annual data (combined for ease of data use)<br>
trend_likelihood: Likelihood of trend direction adapted from IPCC criteria.<br>
period_start: Start of trend period<br>
period_end: End of trend period<br>
p_value: P value<br>
slope, conf_low, conf_high, conf_level: Slope statistic to describe rate of change and relevant 90% and 66% confidence intervals.<br>
intercept: Intercept<br>
r_sqared: R squared<br>
sigma: Sigma<br>
trend_method: Trend method (Mann-Kendall or Linear model)<br>
n: Number of data points included in trend calculation.<br>
note: Linear model analysis notes<br>
s, var_s, tau, z: Mann-Kendall test statistics.<br>
alternative: Alternative hypothesis used in Mann Kendall Calculation<br>
lat: Approximate latitude location of NIWA climate stations to represent a site.<br>
lon: Approximate longitude location of NIWA climate stations to represent a site.<br>
simple_site: site without macrons</p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 07 Dec 2023<br />
Updated: 07 Dec 2023<br />
Annual and seasonal rainfall at 30 sites, state, 1960 - 2022tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2023-12:layers:1153642023-12-07T02:49:21.086820+00:002023-12-07T02:47:14.812249+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/115364-annual-and-seasonal-rainfall-at-30-sites-state-1960-2022/" title="Details for Annual and seasonal rainfall at 30 sites, state, 1960 - 2022"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=115364.395063,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Annual and seasonal rainfall at 30 sites, state, 1960 - 2022 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 07 Dec 2023</strong><br />
<p>This dataset measures annual and seasonal rainfall at 30 sites across Aotearoa New Zealand from 1960 to 2022. We also provide data for annual and seasonal anomalies (difference from baseline) for each site from 1960 to 2022.</p>
<p>Variables:<br>
site: NIWA climate site.<br>
season: Season or Annual data (combined for ease of data use)<br>
precipitation: Rainfall in mm<br>
period_start: Start date of season or year<br>
period_end: End date of season or year<br>
pretty_site_name: pretty site name<br>
lat: Approximate latitude location of NIWA climate stations to represent a site.<br>
lon: Approximate longitude location of NIWA climate stations to represent a site.<br>
anom_1961: Anomaly against baseline 1961-1990<br>
anom_1991: Anomaly against baseline 1991-2020<br>
site_simple: pretty_site_name without macrons</p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 07 Dec 2023<br />
Updated: 07 Dec 2023<br />
Daily rainfall at 30 sites, state, 1960 - 2022tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2023-12:layers:1153632023-12-07T02:56:21.193431+00:002023-12-07T02:28:11.524682+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/115363-daily-rainfall-at-30-sites-state-1960-2022/" title="Details for Daily rainfall at 30 sites, state, 1960 - 2022"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=115363.395062,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Daily rainfall at 30 sites, state, 1960 - 2022 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 07 Dec 2023</strong><br />
<p>This dataset measures daily rainfall at 30 sites across Aotearoa New Zealand from 1960 to 2022.</p>
<p>Variables:<br>
site: location of monitoring station<br>
date: date<br>
rainfall: rainfall in mm<br>
rainfall_units: rainfall is measured in mm<br>
lat: Approximate latitude location of NIWA climate stations to represent a site.<br>
lon: Approximate longitude location of NIWA climate stations to represent a site.<br>
site_simple: site without macrons</p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 07 Dec 2023<br />
Updated: 07 Dec 2023<br />
Total rainfall, 2016tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2017-10:layers:894202017-10-12T23:27:50.914497+00:002017-10-12T23:20:55.940163+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/89420-total-rainfall-2016/" title="Details for Total rainfall, 2016"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=89420.285659,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Total rainfall, 2016 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 12 Oct 2017</strong><br />
<p>This layer is the total rainfall for the year 2016, summed from interpolated daily rainfall, in mm, not the average.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 12 Oct 2017<br />
Updated: 12 Oct 2017<br />
Totall rainfall, 2014tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2017-10:layers:894182017-10-12T23:26:15.030163+00:002017-10-12T23:18:57.299341+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/89418-totall-rainfall-2014/" title="Details for Totall rainfall, 2014"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=89418.285657,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Totall rainfall, 2014 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 12 Oct 2017</strong><br />
<p>This layer is the total rainfall for the year 2016, summed from interpolated daily rainfall, in mm, not the average.</p>
<p>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.</p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 12 Oct 2017<br />
Updated: 12 Oct 2017<br />
Total rainfall, 2015tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2017-10:layers:894192017-10-12T23:27:06.084109+00:002017-10-12T23:19:56.445403+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/89419-total-rainfall-2015/" title="Details for Total rainfall, 2015"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=89419.285658,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Total rainfall, 2015 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 12 Oct 2017</strong><br />
<p>This layer is the total rainfall for the year 2016, summed from interpolated daily rainfall, in mm, not the average.</p>
<p>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.</p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 12 Oct 2017<br />
Updated: 12 Oct 2017<br />
Seasonal rainfall, summer , 1981–2010tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2017-10:layers:894142017-10-12T22:50:57.274761+00:002017-10-12T22:46:18.478892+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/89414-seasonal-rainfall-summer-19812010/" title="Details for Seasonal rainfall, summer , 1981–2010"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=89414.285653,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Seasonal rainfall, summer , 1981–2010 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 12 Oct 2017</strong><br />
<p>Rain is vital for life – it supplies the water we need to drink and to grow our food, keeps our ecosystems healthy, and supplies our electricity. New Zealand’s mountainous terrain and location in the roaring forties mean rainfall varies across the country. Changes in rainfall amount or timing can significantly affect agriculture, energy, recreation, and the environment. For example, an increase or decrease of rainfall in spring can have marked effects on crops or fish populations.<br>
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.</p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 12 Oct 2017<br />
Updated: 12 Oct 2017<br />
Seasonal rainfall, winter, 1981–2010tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2017-10:layers:894152017-10-12T22:59:36.864294+00:002017-10-12T22:47:20.227251+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/89415-seasonal-rainfall-winter-19812010/" title="Details for Seasonal rainfall, winter, 1981–2010"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=89415.285654,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Seasonal rainfall, winter, 1981–2010 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 12 Oct 2017</strong><br />
<p>Rain is vital for life – it supplies the water we need to drink and to grow our food, keeps our ecosystems healthy, and supplies our electricity. New Zealand’s mountainous terrain and location in the roaring forties mean rainfall varies across the country. Changes in rainfall amount or timing can significantly affect agriculture, energy, recreation, and the environment. For example, an increase or decrease of rainfall in spring can have marked effects on crops or fish populations.<br>
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.</p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 12 Oct 2017<br />
Updated: 12 Oct 2017<br />
Seasonal rainfall, autumn, 1981–2010tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2017-10:layers:894162017-10-12T23:22:14.130402+00:002017-10-12T23:16:42.957262+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/89416-seasonal-rainfall-autumn-19812010/" title="Details for Seasonal rainfall, autumn, 1981–2010"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=89416.285655,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Seasonal rainfall, autumn, 1981–2010 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 12 Oct 2017</strong><br />
<p>Rain is vital for life – it supplies the water we need to drink and to grow our food, keeps our ecosystems healthy, and supplies our electricity. New Zealand’s mountainous terrain and location in the roaring forties mean rainfall varies across the country. Changes in rainfall amount or timing can significantly affect agriculture, energy, recreation, and the environment. For example, an increase or decrease of rainfall in spring can have marked effects on crops or fish populations.<br>
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.</p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 12 Oct 2017<br />
Updated: 12 Oct 2017<br />
Seasonal rainfall, spring, 1981–2010tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2017-10:layers:894172017-10-12T23:23:06.076691+00:002017-10-12T23:17:58.734977+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/89417-seasonal-rainfall-spring-19812010/" title="Details for Seasonal rainfall, spring, 1981–2010"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=89417.285656,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Seasonal rainfall, spring, 1981–2010 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 12 Oct 2017</strong><br />
<p>Rain is vital for life – it supplies the water we need to drink and to grow our food, keeps our ecosystems healthy, and supplies our electricity. New Zealand’s mountainous terrain and location in the roaring forties mean rainfall varies across the country. Changes in rainfall amount or timing can significantly affect agriculture, energy, recreation, and the environment. For example, an increase or decrease of rainfall in spring can have marked effects on crops or fish populations.<br>
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.</p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 12 Oct 2017<br />
Updated: 12 Oct 2017<br />
Average annual rainfall, 1972–2016tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2017-10:layers:894212017-10-12T23:29:05.566782+00:002017-10-12T23:21:54.881561+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/89421-average-annual-rainfall-19722016/" title="Details for Average annual rainfall, 1972–2016"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=89421.285660,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Average annual rainfall, 1972–2016 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 12 Oct 2017</strong><br />
<p>Rain is vital for life – it supplies the water we need to drink and to grow our food, keeps our ecosystems healthy, and supplies our electricity. New Zealand’s mountainous terrain and location in the roaring forties mean rainfall varies across the country. Changes in rainfall amount or timing can significantly affect agriculture, energy, recreation, and the environment. For example, an increase or decrease of rainfall in spring can have marked effects on crops or fish populations.<br>
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.</p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 12 Oct 2017<br />
Updated: 12 Oct 2017<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1972-1973tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:533212016-02-22T04:04:21.092787+00:002016-02-22T03:37:51.076916+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53321-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1972-1973/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1972-1973"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53321.152301,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1972-1973 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 22 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1972 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 22 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 22 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1975-1976tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530582016-02-11T05:13:33.992301+00:002016-02-11T04:16:38.746649+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53058-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1975-1976/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1975-1976"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53058.151740,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1975-1976 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>"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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1975 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1976-1977tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530592016-02-11T05:13:12.058245+00:002016-02-11T04:16:39.301660+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53059-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1976-1977/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1976-1977"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53059.151741,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1976-1977 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>"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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1976 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1977-1978tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530602016-02-11T05:13:22.975182+00:002016-02-11T04:16:39.743451+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53060-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1977-1978/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1977-1978"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53060.151742,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1977-1978 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>"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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1977 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1978-1979tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530612016-02-11T05:13:26.442102+00:002016-02-11T04:16:40.178081+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53061-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1978-1979/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1978-1979"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53061.151743,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1978-1979 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>"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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1978 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1979-1980tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530622016-02-11T05:13:35.756738+00:002016-02-11T04:16:40.661943+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53062-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1979-1980/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1979-1980"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53062.151744,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1979-1980 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>"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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1979 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1980-1981tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530632016-02-11T05:13:41.765447+00:002016-02-11T04:16:41.138032+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53063-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1980-1981/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1980-1981"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53063.151745,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1980-1981 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>"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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1980 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1981-1982tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530642016-02-11T05:13:42.983846+00:002016-02-11T04:16:41.739676+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53064-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1981-1982/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1981-1982"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53064.151746,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1981-1982 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>"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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1981 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1982-1983tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530652016-02-11T05:13:49.729434+00:002016-02-11T04:16:42.319838+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53065-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1982-1983/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1982-1983"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53065.151747,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1982-1983 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>"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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1982 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1983-1984tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530662016-02-11T05:13:55.644757+00:002016-02-11T04:16:42.804850+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53066-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1983-1984/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1983-1984"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53066.151748,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1983-1984 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>"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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1983 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1984-1985tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530672016-02-11T05:13:51.022316+00:002016-02-11T04:16:43.402032+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53067-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1984-1985/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1984-1985"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53067.151749,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1984-1985 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1984 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1985-1986tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530682016-02-11T05:14:05.452455+00:002016-02-11T04:16:43.961526+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53068-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1985-1986/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1985-1986"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53068.151750,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1985-1986 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1985 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1986-1987tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530692016-02-11T05:13:56.915048+00:002016-02-11T04:16:44.560879+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53069-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1986-1987/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1986-1987"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53069.151751,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1986-1987 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1986 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1987-1988tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530702016-02-11T05:14:14.348528+00:002016-02-11T04:16:45.092483+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53070-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1987-1988/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1987-1988"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53070.151752,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1987-1988 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1987 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1988-1989tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530712016-02-11T05:14:08.717940+00:002016-02-11T04:16:47.311595+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53071-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1988-1989/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1988-1989"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53071.151753,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1988-1989 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1988 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1989-1990tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530722016-02-11T05:14:20.910909+00:002016-02-11T04:16:47.788626+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53072-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1989-1990/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1989-1990"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53072.151754,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1989-1990 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>"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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1989 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1990-1991tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530732016-02-11T05:14:22.725564+00:002016-02-11T04:16:48.274758+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53073-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1990-1991/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1990-1991"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53073.151755,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1990-1991 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1990 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1991-1992tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530742016-02-11T05:14:28.315769+00:002016-02-11T04:16:48.659725+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53074-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1991-1992/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1991-1992"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53074.151756,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1991-1992 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1991 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1992-1993tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530752016-02-11T05:14:27.397492+00:002016-02-11T04:16:49.141531+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53075-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1992-1993/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1992-1993"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53075.151757,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1992-1993 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1992 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1993-1994tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530762016-02-11T05:14:36.684399+00:002016-02-11T04:16:49.658775+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53076-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1993-1994/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1993-1994"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53076.151758,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1993-1994 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1993 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1994-1995tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530772016-02-11T05:14:35.900315+00:002016-02-11T04:16:50.016887+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53077-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1994-1995/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1994-1995"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53077.151759,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1994-1995 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1994 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1995-1996tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530782016-02-11T05:14:43.717811+00:002016-02-11T04:16:50.666440+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53078-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1995-1996/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1995-1996"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53078.151760,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1995-1996 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1995 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1996-1997tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530792016-02-11T05:14:47.594816+00:002016-02-11T04:16:51.466116+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53079-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1996-1997/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1996-1997"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53079.151761,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1996-1997 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1996 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1997-1998tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530802016-02-11T05:14:39.526480+00:002016-02-11T04:16:51.884176+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53080-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1997-1998/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1997-1998"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53080.151762,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1997-1998 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1997 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1998-1999tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530812016-02-11T05:14:50.749255+00:002016-02-11T04:16:52.331515+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53081-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1998-1999/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1998-1999"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53081.151763,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1998-1999 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1998 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 1999-2000tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530822016-02-11T05:14:55.156009+00:002016-02-11T04:16:52.869707+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53082-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-1999-2000/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 1999-2000"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53082.151764,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 1999-2000 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 1999 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 2000-2001tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530832016-02-11T05:14:56.185915+00:002016-02-11T04:16:53.404832+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53083-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-2000-2001/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 2000-2001"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53083.151765,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 2000-2001 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 2000 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 2001-2002tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530842016-02-11T05:15:01.348791+00:002016-02-11T04:16:54.145625+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53084-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-2001-2002/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 2001-2002"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53084.151766,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 2001-2002 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 2001 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 2002-2003tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530852016-02-11T05:15:03.468760+00:002016-02-11T04:16:54.691949+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53085-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-2002-2003/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 2002-2003"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53085.151767,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 2002-2003 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>"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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 2002 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 2003-2004tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530862016-02-11T05:15:10.049562+00:002016-02-11T04:16:56.313141+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53086-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-2003-2004/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 2003-2004"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53086.151768,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 2003-2004 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 2003 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 2004-2005tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530872016-02-11T05:15:10.850597+00:002016-02-11T04:16:57.155777+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53087-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-2004-2005/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 2004-2005"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53087.151769,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 2004-2005 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 2004 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 2008-2009tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530912016-02-11T05:15:24.419267+00:002016-02-11T04:16:59.471931+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53091-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-2008-2009/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 2008-2009"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53091.151773,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 2008-2009 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 2008 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 2007-2008tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530902016-02-11T05:15:25.893483+00:002016-02-11T04:16:58.580213+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53090-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-2007-2008/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 2007-2008"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53090.151772,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 2007-2008 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 2007 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 2005-2006tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530882016-02-11T05:15:18.982831+00:002016-02-11T04:16:57.698162+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53088-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-2005-2006/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 2005-2006"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53088.151770,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 2005-2006 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 2005 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 2006-2007tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530892016-02-11T05:15:20.393113+00:002016-02-11T04:16:58.151826+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53089-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-2006-2007/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 2006-2007"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53089.151771,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 2006-2007 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 2006 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 2013 2014tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530952016-02-11T05:15:33.649390+00:002016-02-11T04:17:01.469850+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53095-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-2013-2014/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 2013 2014"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53095.151777,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 2013 2014 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 2013 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 2012-2013tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530942016-02-11T05:15:45.371753+00:002016-02-11T04:17:01.035284+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53094-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-2012-2013/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 2012-2013"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53094.151776,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 2012-2013 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 2012 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 2011-2012tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530962016-02-11T05:15:41.508997+00:002016-02-11T04:17:02.951010+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53096-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-2011-2012/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 2011-2012"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53096.151778,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 2011-2012 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 2011 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Standardised soil moisture deficit 2010 2011tag:data.mfe.govt.nz,2016-02:layers:530932016-02-11T05:15:42.064151+00:002016-02-11T04:17:00.389357+00:00
<a class="kxThumbnail" href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53093-standardised-soil-moisture-deficit-2010-2011/" title="Details for Standardised soil moisture deficit 2010 2011"><img src="//tiles-cdn.koordinates.com/services/tiles/v4/thumbnail/layer=53093.151775,style=auto/90x70.png" alt="Standardised soil moisture deficit 2010 2011 thumbnail"/></a><br />
<br /><strong>Updated with new data on 11 Feb 2016</strong><br />
<p>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 deficits are estimated by the potential evapotranspiration deficit, the difference between rainfall and evapotranspiration. </p>
<p>This layer shows the standardised annual soil moisture (potential evapotranspiration deficit (PED)) across New Zealand for 2010 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Evapotranspiration is the loss of water by evaporation and plant transpiration. PED is the difference between estimated evapotranspiration and rainfall. </p>
<p>We produced maps of the standardised annual PED (the departure from the 1981–2010 average, divided by the 1981–2010 standard deviation) were produced for every growing season (calculated as July–June years) from 1972 to 2013. </p>
<p>Care should be taken when comparing maps from year to year – days may be missing from the PED GIS data, and data may have been interpolated to complete the dataset. The interpolation accuracy is lowest in areas of high elevation, where there are fewer climate stations and complex terrain affects accuracy. Climate stations may also open and close, affecting the accuracy of the data provided. </p>
<p>This dataset relates to the "Soil moisture and drought" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website. </p>
From: <a href="https://data.mfe.govt.nz/group/environmental-reporting/" title="Profile for Environmental Reporting">Environmental Reporting</a><br />
Added: 11 Feb 2016<br />
Updated: 11 Feb 2016<br />