Geographical services - Environmental data

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Geographical services - Environmental data

These web services return environmental data from Bio-ORACLE (Ocean Rasters for Analysis of Climate and Environment): a global environmental dataset for marine species distribution modeling, based on Latitude and Longitude in the uploaded data file. Available parameters include: Sea Surface Temperature (minimum, maximum, mean, range), Salinity (mean), Chlorophyll-a (minimum, maximum, mean, range), Photosynthetically Available Radiation (minimum, mean), pH (mean), Calcite Concentration (mean), Dissolved Oxygen (mean), Silicate (mean), Nitrate (mean), Phosphate (mean), Diffuse Attenuation (minimum, maximum, mean), and Cloud Cover (minimum, maximum, mean).