Annual rainfall Units: percentage of normal, 1979

Name: Annual rainfall Units: percentage of normal, 1979
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License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand. https://data.mfe.govt.nz/license/attribution-3-0-new-zealand/.

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Environmental Reporting, Ministry for the Environment and Statistics New Zealand

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Analyst

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23 Kate Sheppard Place, PO Box 10362

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Wellington 6143

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New Zealand

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Environmental.Reporting@mfe.govt.nz

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Role Code: distributor

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Date: 2016-01-26

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ANZLIC Metadata Profile: An Australian/New Zealand Profile of AS/NZS ISO 19115:2005, Geographic information - Metadata

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1.1

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Title

Annual rainfall Units: percentage of normal, 1979

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Abstract

"Annual rainfall is the total accumulated rain over one year. Rain is vital for life, including plant growth, drinking water, river ecosystem health, and sanitation. Floods and droughts affect our environment, economy, and recreational opportunities.

This layer shows the annual rainfall as a percentage of normal across New Zealand for 1979 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. Annual rainfall is the total accumulated rain over one year. It is estimated from the daily rainfall estimates of the Virtual Climate Station Network (NIWA). 'Normal' is defined as the average annual rainfall from 1972–2013.

This dataset relates to the ""Annual average rainfall"" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website.

Geometry: raster catalogue

Unit: percent

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Progress Code: completed

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Responsible Party

Organisation Name

Environmental Reporting, Ministry for the Environment and Statistics New Zealand

Position Name

Analyst

Contact Info

Contact

Address

Delivery Point

23 Kate Sheppard Place, PO Box 10362

City

Wellington 6143

Country

New Zealand

Electronic Mail Address

Environmental.Reporting@mfe.govt.nz

Role

Role Code: distributor

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Maintenance Frequency Code: irregular

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*.xml

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Unknown

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New Zealand

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ANZLIC Jurisdictions

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Version 2.1

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Date: 2008-10-29

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http://asdd.ga.gov.au/asdd/profileinfo/anzlic-jurisdic.xml#anzlic-jurisdic

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ANZLIC the Spatial Information Council

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CLIMATE-AND-WEATHER

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CLIMATE-AND-WEATHER-Rainfall

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Version 2.1

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Date: 2008-05-16

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ANZLIC the Spatial Information Council

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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand by Ministry for the Environment

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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand by Ministry for the Environment

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Language

eng

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Character Set Code: utf8

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environment

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Citation

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ANZMet Lite Country codelist

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Version 1.0

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Date: 2009-03-31

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ANZLIC the Spatial Information Council

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164.373835631-178.368273496-47.5566512869-33.826801176

Distribution Info

Distribution

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Online Resource

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URL: https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/52951-annual-rainfall-units-percentage-of-normal-1979/

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Scope Code: dataset

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Source:
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research

Method:
"Annual rainfall Units: percentage of normal was derived from annual rainfall data. Units: percentage of normal was calculated by dividing the annual rainfall for a particular year/the average annual rainfall for all years from 1972–2013.

Annual rainfall data records the total accumulated rainfall over a year. It is estimated from the daily rainfall estimates of the Virtual Climate Station Network (NIWA).
Virtual climate station estimates are produced every day, for every 25km2 around the country.
They use a statistical model to estimate the values between observations made at actual climate stations. This model uses information such as the pattern of annual rainfall to help with the estimations. (NIWA, Tait et al 2005; Tait et al 2006, Tait et al 2012).

The New Zealand precipitation values in the Water Physical Stock – surface water components show the total precipitation. The maps in this case study highlight spatial and time variations.
The accuracy of the data source is of high quality.

References:

NIWA (nd). Virtual climate station data and products. Accessed 3 June 2015 from www.niwa.co.nz.

Tait, A, Henderson, R, Turner, R, & Zheng, XG (2006). Thin plate smoothing spline interpolation of daily rainfall for New Zealand using a climatological rainfall surface. International Journal of Climatology, 26(14), 2097–2115. Available from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.

Tait, A, Sturman, J, & Clark, M (2012). An assessment of the accuracy of interpolated daily rainfall for New Zealand. Journal of Hydrology (New Zealand), 51(1), 25–44.

Tait, A, & Turner, R (2005). Generating multiyear gridded daily rainfall over New Zealand. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 44(9), 1315–1323. Available from http://journals.ametsoc.org."

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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand by Ministry for the Environment

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Annual rainfall Units: percentage of normal, 1979

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