We provide organisations with the information and foresight needed to navigate and thrive the physical risks posed by climate change in the 21st century.

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Production forest harvesting is in full swing following the wall-of-wood early 1990s planting. This next rotation is sure to feel the effects of climate change! We specialise in providing climate risk projections for Forestry, let us know how we can help you prepare and thrive.
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Seriously horrific numbers. In dam-breaking events, climate change conceptually shares a larger than normal blame. 🧡1/7 youtube.com/watch?v=sZCT0lN-…

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Spectacular sights over the ski fields of Cardrona showing a whole range of atmospheric optical phenomena. There's more about sundogs, halos and other excellent reasons to look up here blog.metservice.com/atmosphe…

Spectacular Ice Halo display @CardronaNZ formed in 'diamond dust' ice crystals today. Common to rare observed: 1. Parhelia (aka, Sun Dog) 2. 22ΒΊ Halo 3. Lower Tangent Arc 4. Parhelic Circle (rare) 5. Infralateral Arc (rare) 6. 44ΒΊ Parhelion (extremely rare) @MetService
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Climate Prescience is the specialist provider of physical climate risk to forestry in New Zealand. Here are some of our credentials in this space: 1. Last year, we completed the first assessment of its kind in New Zealand for Aotearoa's largest plantation forest.
Just two in 10 of our forest growers are taking direct measures to adapt to climate change, this study finds, despite it being one of the biggest risks facing the sector and its billions of dollars of assets nzherald.co.nz/nz/climate-ch…
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2. We use the latest available methods and data backed by the government and academia to canvas the entire range of variability and uncertainty. 3. We use scenario analysis that complies with the government's mandatory climate-related disclosures for physical climate risk.
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4. We led the study on wildfire risk to plantation forests in New Zealand and are the only supplier of this data. Reach out to discover the future risks from wildfire, drought, extreme precipitation, etc, for your forest.
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Interesting study out today looking at whether the Oz bushfires helped trigger a rare β€œtriple-dip” La NiΓ±a that’s meant rain-soaked misery for the North Island. With input from ⁦@CubaRaglanGuy⁩, ⁦@nathanaelmelia⁩ & ⁦@chrisbrandolino⁩ nzherald.co.nz/nz/did-austra…
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1/🧡2023 has been so wet, hasn't it!? Has it? Well, I've done some 'procrastowork' to find out. Come with me on a tiki tour around Aotearoa where i'll review. Stop 1. Rotorua (where I live). Near or at record levels throughout, summer cancelled; please send Vit D. ⭐️
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(1/6) Today, we’d like to take a moment to shine a light on Nathanael Melia. @NathanaelMelia is a highly valuable member of the #WhakahuraProgramme who shared important information regarding Cyclone Gabrielle. Here are some of the articles that he was in:
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Devastation in the Esk Valley (Hawke's Bay, NZ) from #CycloneGabrielle πŸ˜–πŸ˜¬ More satellite imagery processing reveals: 1) The very obvious path and extent of the floods. 2) The vast number of new agricultural slips (brown patches).
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On the perils of mega consultancies conducting climate risk analysis rather than climate scientists.
Replying to @PatrickTBrown31
So what did @McKinsey_MGI do wrong to get results inconsistent with the literature and the IPCC? I think the answer lies in this footnote. They calculated wet-bulb temperature by mixing MAXIMUM daily temperatures with AVERAGE daily relative humilities.
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Interviewed RE forestry slash by @NewshubNZ @AlexaCook_ from the #CycloneGabrielle devastation. The solution is simple; ban clear-fell harvesting on these high-risk slopes. A just transition of this landscape is far harder; it will require funding & listening to Ngati Porou.
Enhanced satellite imagery for the cloud-free areas of Tairāwhiti 2023-02-17 11:06:36 NZDT. Generally, the brown colours indicate floods, silt, and slips/landslides. #CycloneGabrielle
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Enhanced satellite imagery for the cloud-free areas of Tairāwhiti 2023-02-17 11:06:36 NZDT. Generally, the brown colours indicate floods, silt, and slips/landslides. #CycloneGabrielle
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We have been assessing satellite imagery to find damage around the Rotoaira Forest. Although localised to this area, the damage is extensive. Here we slide between before and after #CycloneGabrielle. Windthrow can be identified by the dark green forest areas turning brown.
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Kasey Smith captured this footage of the Rotoaira Forest, near Turangi, on Tuesday morning. "The whole forest is gone", she said.
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We ventured into our local forest for a post #CycloneGabrielle damage assessment to get an idea of exposures and species worst affected following the gust front.
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This damage inspection allows us to verify our forecasts and observations on the damage a wind event can cause. The max recorded nearby wind gust was 80km/h. We will use these observations in our future climate change risk assessments.
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Overnight the Central North Island experienced a damaging straight-line wind event (aka gust front); it is seen below as a sharp boundary between the yellow-cyan colours. This event produced wind gusts well over 100km/h, with at least one recording of 150km/h. #CycloneGabrielle
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Kasey Smith captured this footage of the Rotoaira Forest, near Turangi, on Tuesday morning. "The whole forest is gone", she said.
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The Climate Shift Forecaster – Projecting Temperature-Precipitation Space to Ensure a Climate-Resilient Economy. We have completed the first action in our @MBIEsci Endeavour Fund - Smart Ideas by procuring 28Tb of NASA climate simulations onto our systems.
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These global simulations span four emission scenarios for the 21st century over 35 climate models and nine daily mean weather variables, giving @Climate_predict world-leading climate prediction capabilities for the next decade.
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Our next task is to checksums and align the data for coupling.
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