Environmental data for fitting statistical habitat models

This dataset contains all the environmental data (e.g., sea surface temperature in summer, bottom depth, etc.) that are used to fit statistical habitat models for our FLRACEP project. This is the "large environmental database" of our FLRACEP project. These environmental data are not time series, but rather "climatologies" that depict long-term, average environmental conditions in the Gulf of Mexico. Some of these environmental data are for the entire Gulf of Mexico Large Marine Ecosystem, while others are only for the U.S. Gulf of Mexico only. We requested raw environmental data collected in the Gulf of Mexico between 2000 and the present, which we processed to generate the "large environmental database" provided here.