Please note, this dataset has been superseded by a newer version (see below). Users should not use this version except in rare cases (e.g., when reproducing previous studies that used this version). Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive is a digital data set archived at the former National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), now National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). This dataset contains monthly means of geopotential height, temperature, zonal wind, and meridional wind derived from the Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive (IGRA). IGRA consists of radiosonde and pilot balloon observations at over 1500 globally distributed stations, and monthly means are available for the surface and mandatory levels at many of these stations. The period of record varies from station to station, with many extending from 1970 to 2016. Monthly means are computed separately for the nominal times of 0000 and 1200 UTC, considering data within two hours of each nominal time. A mean is provided, along with the number of values used to calculate it, whenever there are at least 10 values for a particular station, month, nominal time, and level.

Government debt (in millions EUR) is defined as the total consolidated gross debt at nominal value in the

following categories of government liabilities (as defined in ESA 2010): currency and deposits Dimension Categories ( (AF.2), debt securities (AF.3) and loans (AF.4)

The North American Roads dataset was compiled on October 27, 2020 from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) and is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)/Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD). On March 31, 2025, the errant records with a value of 2 in the "NHS" field were corrected to have a value of 7 (Other NHS). This dataset contains geospatial information regarding major roadways in North America. The data set covers the 48 contiguous United States plus the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, Canada and Mexico. The nominal scale of the data set is 1:100,000. The data within the North American Roads layer is a compilation of data from Natural Resources Canada, USDOT’s Federal Highway Administration, and the Mexican Transportation Institute. North American Roads is a digital single-line representation of major roads and highways for Canada, the United States, and Mexico with consistent definitions by road class, jurisdiction, lane counts, speed limits and surface type. A data dictionary, or other source of attribute information, is accessible at https://doi.org/10.21949/1529071

The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) is a land cover monitoring program providing land cover information for the United States. NLCD2016 extended temporal coverage to 15 years (2001–2016). We collected land cover reference data for the 2011 and 2016 nominal dates to report land cover accuracy for the NLCD2016 database 2011 and 2016 land cover components. We measured land cover accuracy at Level II and Level I, and change accuracy at Level I. For both the 2011 and 2016 land cover components, single-date Level II overall accuracies (OA) were 72% (standard error of ±0.9%) when agreement was defined as match between the map label and primary reference label only and 86% (± 0.7%) when agreement also included the alternate reference label. The corresponding level I OA for both dates were 79% (± 0.9%) and 91% (± 1.0%). For land cover change, the 2011–2016 user’s and producer’s accuracies (UA and PA) were ~ 75% for forest loss. PA for water loss, grassland loss, and grass gain were > 70% when agreement included a match between the map label and either the primary or alternate reference label. Depending on agreement definition and level of the classification hierarchy, OA for the 2011 land cover component of the NLCD2016 database was about 4% to 7% higher than OA for the 2011 land cover component of the NLCD2011 database, suggesting that the changes in mapping methodologies initiated for production of the NLCD2016 database have led to improved product quality.

Refer to the current geographies boundaries table for a list of all current geographies and recent updates.

This dataset is the definitive version of the annually released statistical area 3 (SA3) boundaries as at 1 January 2025 as defined by Stats NZ. This version contains 929 SA3s, including 4 non-digitised SA3s.

The SA3 geography aims to meet three purposes:

1. approximate suburbs in major, large, and medium urban areas,

2. in predominantly rural areas, provide geographical areas that are larger in area and population size than SA2s but smaller than territorial authorities,

3. minimise data suppression.

SA3s in major, large, and medium urban areas were created by combining SA2s to approximate suburbs as delineated in the Fire and Emergency NZ (FENZ) Localities dataset. Some of the resulting SA3s have very large populations.

Outside of major, large, and medium urban areas, SA3s generally have populations of 5,000–10,000. These SA3s may represent either a single small urban area, a combination of small urban areas and their surrounding rural SA2s, or a combination of rural SA2s.

Zero or nominal population SA3s

To minimise the amount of unsuppressed data that can be provided in multivariate statistical tables, SA2s with fewer than 1,000 residents are combined with other SA2s wherever possible to reach the 1,000 SA3 population target. However, there are still a number of SA3s with zero or nominal populations.

Small population SA2s designed to maintain alignment between territorial authority and regional council geographies are merged with other SA2s to reach the 5,000–10,000 SA3 population target. These merges mean that some SA3s do not align with regional council boundaries but are aligned to territorial authority.

Small population island SA2s are included in their adjacent land-based SA3.

Island SA2s outside territorial authority or region are the same in the SA3 geography.

Inland water SA2s are aggregated and named by territorial authority, as in the urban rural classification.

Inlet SA2s are aggregated and named by territorial authority or regional council where the water area is outside the territorial authority.

Oceanic SA2s translate directly to SA3s as they are already aggregated to regional council.

The 16 non-digitised SA2s are aggregated to the following 4 non-digitised SA3s (SA3 code; SA3 name):

70001; Oceanic outside region, 70002; Oceanic oil rigs, 70003; Islands outside region, 70004; Ross Dependency outside region.

SA3 numbering and naming

Each SA3 is a single geographic entity with a name and a numeric code. The name refers to a suburb, recognised place name, or portion of a territorial authority. In some instances where place names are the same or very similar, the SA3s are differentiated by their territorial authority, for example, Hillcrest (Hamilton City) and Hillcrest (Rotorua District).

SA3 codes have five digits. North Island SA3 codes start with a 5, South Island SA3 codes start with a 6 and non-digitised SA3 codes start with a 7. They are numbered approximately north to south within their respective territorial authorities. When first created in 2025, the last digit of each code was 0. When SA3 boundaries change in future, only the last digit of the code will change to ensure the north-south pattern is maintained.

​

High-definition version

This high definition (HD) version is the most detailed geometry, suitable for use in GIS for geometric analysis operations and for the computation of areas, centroids and other metrics. The HD version is aligned to the LINZ cadastre.

​

Macrons

Names are provided with and without tohutō/macrons. The column name for those without macrons is suffixed ‘ascii’.

​

Digital data

Digital boundary data became freely available on 1 July 2007

​

Further information

To download geographic classifications in table formats such as CSV please use Ariā

For more information please refer to the Statistical standard for geographic areas 2023.

Contact: geography@stats.govt.nz

1 Introduction

The Peatland Decomposition Database (PDD) stores data from published litterbag experiments related to peatlands. Currently, the database focuses on northern peatlands and Sphagnum litter and peat, but it also contains data from some vascular plant litterbag experiments. Currently, the database contains entries from 34 studies, 2,160 litterbag experiments, and 7,297 individual samples with 117,841 measurements for various attributes (e.g. relative mass remaining, N content, holocellulose content, mesh size). The aim is to provide a harmonized data source that can be useful to re-analyse existing data and to plan future litterbag experiments.

The Peatland Productivity and Decomposition Parameter Database (PPDPD) (Bona et al. 2018) is similar to the Peatland Decomposition Database (PDD) in that both contain data from peatland litterbag experiments. The differences are that both databases partly contain different data, that PPDPD additionally contains information on vegetation productivity, which PDD does not, and that PDD provides more information and metadata on litterbag experiments, and also measurement errors.

2 Updates

Compared to version 1.0.0, this version has a new structure for table experimental_design_format, contains additional metadata on the experimental design (these were omitted in version 1.0.0), and contains the scripts that were used to import the data into the database.

3 Methods

3.1 Data collection

Data for the database was collected from published litterbag studies, by extracting published data from figures, tables, or other data sources, and by contacting the authors of the studies to obtain raw data. All data processing was done with R (R version 4.2.0 (2022-04-22)) (R Core Team 2022).

Studies were identified via a Scopus search with search string (TITLE-ABS-KEY ( peat* AND ( "litter bag" OR "decomposition rate" OR "decay rate" OR "mass loss")) AND NOT ("tropic*")) (2022-12-17). These studies were further screened to exclude those which do not contain litterbag data or which recycle data from other studies that have already been considered. Additional studies with litterbag experiments in northern peatlands we were aware of, but which were not identified in the literature search were added to the list of publications. For studies not older than 10 years, authors were contacted to obtain raw data, however this was successful only in few cases. To date, the database focuses on Sphagnum litterbag experiments and not from all studies that were identified by the literature search data have been included yet in the database.

Data from figures were extracted using the package ‘metaDigitise’ (1.0.1) (Pick, Nakagawa, and Noble 2018). Data from tables were extracted manually.

Data from the following studies are currently included: Farrish and Grigal (1985), Bartsch and Moore (1985), Farrish and Grigal (1988), Vitt (1990), Hogg, Lieffers, and Wein (1992), Sanger, Billett, and Cresser (1994), Hiroki and Watanabe (1996), Szumigalski and Bayley (1996), Prevost, Belleau, and Plamondon (1997), Arp, Cooper, and Stednick (1999), Robbert A. Scheffer and Aerts (2000), R. A. Scheffer, Van Logtestijn, and Verhoeven (2001), Limpens and Berendse (2003), Waddington, Rochefort, and Campeau (2003), Asada, Warner, and Banner (2004), Thormann, Bayley, and Currah (2001), Trinder, Johnson, and Artz (2008), Breeuwer et al. (2008), Trinder, Johnson, and Artz (2009), Bragazza and Iacumin (2009), Hoorens, Stroetenga, and Aerts (2010), Straková et al. (2010), Straková et al. (2012), Orwin and Ostle (2012), Lieffers (1988), Manninen et al. (2016), Johnson and Damman (1991), Bengtsson, Rydin, and Hájek (2018a), Bengtsson, Rydin, and Hájek (2018b), Asada and Warner (2005), Bengtsson, Granath, and Rydin (2017), Bengtsson, Granath, and Rydin (2016), Hagemann and Moroni (2015), Hagemann and Moroni (2016), B. Piatkowski et al. (2021), B. T. Piatkowski et al. (2021), Mäkilä et al. (2018), Golovatskaya and Nikonova (2017), Golovatskaya and Nikonova (2017).

4 Database records

The database is a ‘MariaDB’ database and the database schema was designed to store data and metadata following the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) (Jones et al. 2019). Descriptions of the tables are shown in Tab. 1.

The database contains general metadata relevant for litterbag experiments (e.g., geographical, temporal, and taxonomic coverage, mesh sizes, experimental design). However, it does not contain a detailed description of sample handling, sample preprocessing methods, site descriptions, because there currently are no discipline-specific metadata and reporting standards. Table 1: Description of the individual tables in the database.

Name Description

attributes Defines the attributes of the database and the values in column attribute_name in table data.

citations Stores bibtex entries for references and data sources.

citations_to_datasets Links entries in table citations with entries in table datasets.

custom_units Stores custom units.

data Stores measured values for samples, for example remaining masses.

datasets Lists the individual datasets.

experimental_design_format Stores information on the experimental design of litterbag experiments.

measurement_scales, measurement_scales_date_time, measurement_scales_interval, measurement_scales_nominal, measurement_scales_ordinal, measurement_scales_ratio Defines data value types.

missing_value_codes Defines how missing values are encoded.

samples Stores information on individual samples.

samples_to_samples Links samples to other samples, for example litter samples collected in the field to litter samples collected during the incubation of the litterbags.

units, unit_types Stores information on measurement units.

5 Attributes Table 2: Definition of attributes in the Peatland Decomposition Database and entries in the column attribute_name in table data.

Name Definition Example value Unit Measurement scale Number type Minimum value Maximum value String format

4_hydroxyacetophenone_mass_absolute A numeric value representing the content of 4-hydroxyacetophenone, as described in Straková et al. (2010). 0.26 g ratio real 0 Inf NA

4_hydroxyacetophenone_mass_relative_mass A numeric value representing the content of 4-hydroxyacetophenone, as described in Straková et al. (2010). 0.26 g/g ratio real 0 1 NA

4_hydroxybenzaldehyde_mass_absolute A numeric value representing the content of 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde, as described in Straková et al. (2010). 0.26 g ratio real 0 Inf NA

4_hydroxybenzaldehyde_mass_relative_mass A numeric value representing the content of 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde, as described in Straková et al. (2010). 0.26 g/g ratio real 0 1 NA

4_hydroxybenzoic_acid_mass_absolute A numeric value representing the content of 4-hydroxybenzoic acid, as described in Straková et al. (2010). 0.26 g ratio real 0 Inf NA

4_hydroxybenzoic_acid_mass_relative_mass A numeric value representing the content of 4-hydroxybenzoic acid, as described in Straková et al. (2010). 0.26 g/g ratio real 0 1 NA

abbreviation In table custom_units: A string representing an abbreviation for the custom unit. gC NA nominal NA NA NA NA

acetone_extractives_mass_absolute A numeric value representing the content of acetone extractives, as described in Straková et al. (2010). 0.26 g ratio real 0 Inf NA

acetone_extractives_mass_relative_mass A numeric value representing the content of acetone extractives, as described in Straková et al. (2010). 0.26 g/g ratio real 0 1 NA

acetosyringone_mass_absolute A numeric value representing the content of acetosyringone, as described in Straková et al. (2010). 0.26 g ratio real 0 Inf NA

acetosyringone_mass_relative_mass A numeric value representing the content of acetosyringone, as described in Straková et al. (2010). 0.26 g/g ratio real 0 1 NA

acetovanillone_mass_absolute A numeric value representing the content of acetovanillone, as described in Straková et al. (2010). 0.26 g ratio real 0 Inf NA

acetovanillone_mass_relative_mass A numeric value representing the content of acetovanillone, as described in Straková et al. (2010). 0.26 g/g ratio real 0 1 NA

arabinose_mass_absolute A numeric value representing the content of arabinose, as described in Straková et al. (2010). 0.26 g ratio real 0 Inf NA

arabinose_mass_relative_mass A numeric value representing the content of arabinose, as described in Straková et al. (2010). 0.26 g/g ratio real 0 1 NA

ash_mass_absolute A numeric value representing the content of ash (after burning at 550°C). 4 g ratio real 0 Inf NA

ash_mass_relative_mass A numeric value representing the content of ash (after burning at 550°C). 0.05 g/g ratio real 0 Inf NA

attribute_definition A free text field with a textual description of the meaning of attributes in the dpeatdecomposition database. NA NA nominal NA NA NA NA

attribute_name A string describing the names of the attributes in all tables of the dpeatdecomposition database. attribute_name NA nominal NA NA NA NA

bibtex A string representing the bibtex code used for a literature reference throughout the dpeatdecomposition database. Galka.2021 NA nominal NA NA NA NA

bounds_maximum A numeric value representing the minimum possible value for a numeric attribute. 0 NA interval real Inf Inf NA

bounds_minimum A numeric value representing the maximum possible value for a numeric attribute. INF NA interval real Inf Inf NA

bulk_density A numeric value representing the bulk density of the sample [g cm-3]. 0,2 g/cm^3 ratio real 0 Inf NA

C_absolute The absolute mass of C in the sample. 1 g ratio real 0 Inf NA

C_relative_mass The absolute mass of C in the sample. 1 g/g ratio real 0 Inf NA

C_to_N A numeric value representing the C to N ratio of the sample. 35 g/g ratio real 0 Inf NA

C_to_P A numeric value representing the C to P ratio of the sample. 35 g/g ratio real 0 Inf NA

Ca_absolute The

SAMSN7L3ZMTG is the Nimbus-7 Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder (SAMS) Level 3 Zonal Means Composition Data Product. The Earth's surface is divided into 2.5-deg latitudinal zones that extend from 50 deg South to 67.5 deg North. Retrieved mixing ratios of nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) are averaged over day and night, along with errors, at 31 pressure levels between 50 and 0.125 mbar. Because the N2O and CH4 channels cannot function simultaneously, only one type of measurement is made for any nominal day. The data were recovered from the original magnetic tapes, and are now stored online as one file in its original proprietary binary format.The data for this product are available from 1 January 1979 through 30 December 1981. The principal investigators for the SAMS experiment were Prof. John T. Houghton and Dr. Fredric W. Taylor from Oxford University.This product was previously available from the NSSDC with the identifier ESAD-00180 (old ID 78-098A-02C).

Refer to the current geographies boundaries table for a list of all current geographies and recent updates.

This dataset is the definitive version of the annually released statistical area 3 (SA3) boundaries as at 1 January 2025 as defined by Stats NZ, clipped to the coastline. This clipped version has been created for cartographic purposes and so does not fully represent the official full extent boundaries. This version contains 873 SA3s, excluding 4 non-digitised SA3s.

The SA3 geography aims to meet three purposes:

1. approximate suburbs in major, large, and medium urban areas,

2. in predominantly rural areas, provide geographical areas that are larger in area and population size than SA2s but smaller than territorial authorities,

3. minimise data suppression.

SA3s in major, large, and medium urban areas were created by combining SA2s to approximate suburbs as delineated in the Fire and Emergency NZ (FENZ) Localities dataset. Some of the resulting SA3s have very large populations.

Outside of major, large, and medium urban areas, SA3s generally have populations of 5,000–10,000. These SA3s may represent either a single small urban area, a combination of small urban areas and their surrounding rural SA2s, or a combination of rural SA2s.

Zero or nominal population SA3s

To minimise the amount of unsuppressed data that can be provided in multivariate statistical tables, SA2s with fewer than 1,000 residents are combined with other SA2s wherever possible to reach the 1,000 SA3 population target. However, there are still a number of SA3s with zero or nominal populations.

Small population SA2s designed to maintain alignment between territorial authority and regional council geographies are merged with other SA2s to reach the 5,000–10,000 SA3 population target. These merges mean that some SA3s do not align with regional council boundaries but are aligned to territorial authority.

Small population island SA2s are included in their adjacent land-based SA3.

Island SA2s outside territorial authority or region are the same in the SA3 geography.

Inland water SA2s are aggregated and named by territorial authority, as in the urban rural classification.

Inlet SA2s are aggregated and named by territorial authority or regional council where the water area is outside the territorial authority.

Oceanic SA2s translate directly to SA3s as they are already aggregated to regional council.

The 16 non-digitised SA2s are aggregated to the following 4 non-digitised SA3s (SA3 code; SA3 name):

70001; Oceanic outside region, 70002; Oceanic oil rigs, 70003; Islands outside region, 70004; Ross Dependency outside region.

SA3 numbering and naming

Each SA3 is a single geographic entity with a name and a numeric code. The name refers to a suburb, recognised place name, or portion of a territorial authority. In some instances where place names are the same or very similar, the SA3s are differentiated by their territorial authority, for example, Hillcrest (Hamilton City) and Hillcrest (Rotorua District).

SA3 codes have five digits. North Island SA3 codes start with a 5, South Island SA3 codes start with a 6 and non-digitised SA3 codes start with a 7. They are numbered approximately north to south within their respective territorial authorities. When first created in 2025, the last digit of each code was 0. When SA3 boundaries change in future, only the last digit of the code will change to ensure the north-south pattern is maintained.

​

Clipped Version

This clipped version has been created for cartographic purposes and so does not fully represent the official full extent boundaries.

​

High-definition version

This high definition (HD) version is the most detailed geometry, suitable for use in GIS for geometric analysis operations and for the computation of areas, centroids and other metrics. The HD version is aligned to the LINZ cadastre.

​

Macrons

Names are provided with and without tohutō/macrons. The column name for those without macrons is suffixed ‘ascii’.

​

Digital data

Digital boundary data became freely available on 1 July 2007.

​

Further information

To download geographic classifications in table formats such as CSV please use Ariā

For more information please refer to the Statistical standard for geographic areas 2023.

Contact: geography@stats.govt.nz

This table contains data on government debt. The debt is divided into different debt securities. Of each debt instrument (type of financial instrument) the share of the various holders (money-givers) is indicated. The debt is presented in nominal value (the original amount of debt) and in market value (the value at which the debt can be traded in the relevant period). When determining the sovereign debt according to EMU definitions, the nominal value is used, in the National Accounts, the market value.

The data in this table have been consolidated, i.e. the elimination of flows between them. As a result, the debts of the subsectors do not add up to the total government debt. Debts of, for example, the empire to the social insurers are part of the government’s debts. For the debt of the total government, they do not count, after all, they are debts that the government has to the government.

The terms used are in line with the National Accounts. The National Accounts are based on the international definitions of the European System of Accounts (ESA 1995). To increase the accessibility of the table, in some cases more common descriptions are used instead of the terms from the National Accounts. The relevant National Accounts term is then mentioned in the notes. The data presented corresponds to the publications on the National Accounts and the EMU publications.

Data available from: Annual figures from 1990 to 2013, quarterly figures from 2005 to 2013.

Status of the figures: The figures in this table since 1990 are final. The most recent years have a (further) provisional character. As this table has been discontinued, the data will no longer be definitive.

Changes as of 25 June 2014: None, this table has been discontinued.

When are new figures coming? No longer applicable. This table is followed by Government; debt to debt securities and lender, nominal and market value. See paragraph 3.

Data Set Overview The Mars Express (MEX) Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) Data Archive is a collection of raw data collected during the MEX Mission to Mars. For more information on the investigations proposed see the PFS documentations in the DOCUMENT/ folder. This data set was collected during the MEX Mission phases: First Extension Mission Phase Mission Phase Definition It should be noted that the Mars Express (MEX) Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) group uses mission phases which deviate from the ones defined in the MISSION.CAT files given by ESA in order to keep the keywords and abbreviations consistent for Mars Express, Venus Express and Rosetta. Those mission phase abbreviations are also used in the data description field of the dataset_id. MaRS mission name | abbreviation | time span Near Earth Verification | NEV | 20030602 20030731 Interplanetary Cruise | IC | 20030801 20031225 Nominal Mission | Nominal | 20031226 20051130 First Extension Mission | EXT1 | 20060101 20070930 Second Extension Mission| EXT2 | 20071001 20091231 Data files Data files are: The tracking files from Deep Space Network (DSN) and from the Intermediate Frequency Modulation System (IFMS) used by the ESA ground station New Norcia. Level 1b data are archived. The Geometry files All Level binary data files will have the file name extension eee .DAT Data levels It should be noted that these data levels which are also used in the file names and data directories are PSA dat truncated!, Please see actual data for full text [truncated!, Please see actual data for full text]

Statistical area 3 (SA3) is a new output geography, introduced in 2023, that allows aggregations of population data between the SA2 geography and territorial authority geography.

​

This dataset is the definitive version of the annually released statistical area 3 (SA3) boundaries as at 1 January 2023 as defined by Stats NZ. This version contains 929 SA3s, including 4 non-digitised SA3s.

​

The SA3 geography aims to meet three purposes:

1. approximate suburbs in major, large, and medium urban areas,

2. in predominantly rural areas, provide geographical areas that are larger in area and population size than SA2s but smaller than territorial authorities,

3. minimise data suppression.

​

SA3s in major, large, and medium urban areas were created by combining SA2s to approximate suburbs as delineated in the Fire and Emergency NZ (FENZ) Localities dataset. Some of the resulting SA3s have very large populations.

​

Outside of major, large, and medium urban areas, SA3s generally have populations of 5,000–10,000. These SA3s may represent either a single small urban area, a combination of small urban areas and their surrounding rural SA2s, or a combination of rural SA2s.

​

Zero or nominal population SA3s

To minimise the amount of unsuppressed data that can be provided in multivariate statistical tables, SA2s with fewer than 1,000 residents are combined with other SA2s wherever possible to reach the 1,000 SA3 population target. However, there are still a number of SA3s with zero or nominal populations.

​

Small population SA2s designed to maintain alignment between territorial authority and regional council geographies are merged with other SA2s to reach the 5,000–10,000 SA3 population target. These merges mean that some SA3s do not align with regional council boundaries but are aligned to territorial authority.

​

Small population island SA2s are included in their adjacent land-based SA3.

​

Island SA2s outside territorial authority or region are the same in the SA3 geography.

​

Inland water SA2s are aggregated and named by territorial authority, as in the urban rural classification.

​

Inlet SA2s are aggregated and named by territorial authority or regional council where the water area is outside the territorial authority.

​

Oceanic SA2s translate directly to SA3s as they are already aggregated to regional council.

​

The 16 non-digitised SA2s are aggregated to the following 4 non-digitised SA3s (SA3 code; SA3 name):

70001; Oceanic outside region, 70002; Oceanic oil rigs, 70003; Islands outside region, 70004; Ross Dependency outside region.

​

SA3 numbering and naming

Each SA3 is a single geographic entity with a name and a numeric code. The name refers to a suburb,recognised place name, or portion of a territorial authority. In some instances where place names are the same or very similar, the SA3s are differentiated by their territorial authority, for example, Hillcrest (Hamilton City) and Hillcrest (Rotorua District).

​

SA3 codes have five digits. North Island SA3 codes start with a 5, South Island SA3 codes start with a 6 and non-digitised SA3 codes start with a 7. They are numbered approximately north to south within their respective territorial authorities. When first created in 2023, the last digit of each code was 0. When SA3 boundaries change in future, only the last digit of the code will change to ensure the north-south pattern is maintained.

​

For more information please refer to the Statistical standard for geographic areas 2023.

​

Generalised version

This generalised version has been simplified for rapid drawing and is designed for thematic or web mapping purposes.

​

Macrons

Names are provided with and without tohutō/macrons. The column name for those without macrons is suffixed ‘ascii’.

​

Digital data

Digital boundary data became freely available on 1 July 2007.

​

To download geographic classifications in table formats such as CSV please use Ariā

SAMSN7L3ZMTG is the Nimbus-7 Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder (SAMS) Level 3 Zonal Means Composition Data Product. The Earth's surface is divided into 2.5-deg latitudinal zones that extend from 50 deg South to 67.5 deg North. Retrieved mixing ratios of nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) are averaged over day and night, along with errors, at 31 pressure levels between 50 and 0.125 mbar. Because the N2O and CH4 channels cannot function simultaneously, only one type of measurement is made for any nominal day. The data were recovered from the original magnetic tapes, and are now stored online as one file in its original proprietary binary format.The data for this product are available from 1 January 1979 through 30 December 1981. The principal investigators for the SAMS experiment were Prof. John T. Houghton and Dr. Fredric W. Taylor from Oxford University.This product was previously available from the NSSDC with the identifier ESAD-00180 (old ID 78-098A-02C).