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National Report of New Zealand Prepared for GLOSS Training Course Tokyo May 2006 Glen Rowe Data Analyst Hydrographic Services Land Information New Zealand National Office 160 Lambton Quay Wellington New Zealand Phone 64 4 460 0569 Fax 64 4 498 3837 growe@linz.govt.nz 1. Introduction Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) is the government department responsible for delivering the Crown’s outcomes for hydrography and bathymetry. This includes the provision of authoritative sea level information to support safety of life at sea and LINZ’s geodetic and cadastral activities. A number of other organisations run tide gauges for scientific or local environmental monitoring purposes. 2. Tidal Regime All tides around New Zealand’s coastline and offshore islands are semi-diurnal. Ross Dependency in Antarctica experiences a diurnal tidal regime. New Zealand’s tidal ranges are quite modest; the west coast of the North and South Islands has a spring range of 4 metres whilst the variation is 1 – 2 metres along the eastern coastline. Another feature that distinguishes the tides on either side of the country is the variation of the fortnightly spring/neap cycle. This can be seen clearly in the following plots – the upper portion shows the tide for a month at a west coast site (Nelson), the lower plot shows Wellington, a site typical of the east coast. Graph 1 Spring/Neap Tidal Ranges Being at one of the amphidromic points in the Pacific Ocean, the tide circulates around New Zealand in an anti-clockwise direction. One of the consequences of this is that the state of the tide is significantly different on either side of Cook Strait between the two main islands. 3. Tide Gauge Networks 3.1 Standard Ports Tide predictions are published in the New Zealand Nautical Almanac (NZNA) for seventeen Standard Ports. These sites are listed in Table 1 and shown on Map 1. Tide