1. The New Zealand Historic Weather Events Catalog Andrew Watkins NIWA Systems Development Team Manager

2. A Catalog of major weather events in New Zealand over the last 200 years.

3. Collated from Newspaper reports, books and journals

4. Identified by location, hazard and impact.

5. Keyword Search

6. Hazard and Impact detail

7. Map View

8. REST API http://hwe.niwa.co.nz/search/summary/Start date/1900-01-01/Enddate/2011-06- 13/Regions/Auckland/Hazards/Tornado/Impac ts/Casualties/Keywords/none/page/1 http://hwe.niwa.co.nz/search/summary/Start date/1900-01-01/Enddate/2011-06- 13/Regions/Auckland/Hazards/Tornado/Impac ts/Casualties/Keywords/none/page/1 http://hwe.niwa.co.nz/search/detail/Septemb er_2010_New_Zealand_Storm http://hwe.niwa.co.nz/search/detail/Septemb er_2010_New_Zealand_Storm

9. Bookmark Searches

10. Bookmark events

11. XML Under the hood

12. Try it V1 production release July 2011. http://hwe.niwa.co.nz Evolutionary, Designed for downstream use.