Sea-surface temperature API with anomaly, live.
SST and its anomaly for any ocean point — the Great Barrier Reef by default — from NOAA's OISST v2.1 quarter-degree analysis, with NCEI's own published anomaly and an honest marine-heatwave heuristic flag.
The call
Keyless. The anomaly is NCEI's own published value, not ours — and the response carries full provenance plus an Ed25519 signature.
# keyless — a named region, or any ocean 'lat,lon'
curl -X POST https://dynamicfeed.ai/v1/batch -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"calls":[{"tool":"sst_anomaly","args":{"region":"ningaloo"}}]}'
# MCP (keyless) — point any client at https://dynamicfeed.ai/mcp, then call:
sst_anomaly(region="great barrier reef")Sample response
{ "queried": { "region": "Great Barrier Reef (central, QLD AU)" },
"sst_c": 25.64, "anomaly_c": 1.01,
"marine_heatwave_signal": "marine-heatwave conditions possible (anomaly >= +1.0 C)",
"measured_date": "2026-06-10",
"provenance": { "source": "NOAA/NCEI Optimum Interpolation SST (OISST) v2.1",
"licence": "US Government work — public domain" } }Why live data
Thermal anomaly — how far the water is from its long-term normal — is the number that matters for coral bleaching risk, aquaculture stock stress and fisheries movement, and it's exactly what a frozen model can't know. This serves NOAA's OISST v2.1 analysis (the standard global SST record) with NCEI's own anomaly per quarter-degree cell, named regions for the places Australians ask about, and honest caveats: ~1–2 day analysis lag, grid-cell resolution, and a heatwave flag that's a labelled heuristic rather than a formal classification.
Use it for
- Aquaculture stock and harvest decisions under heat stress
- Reef tourism and marine operations planning
- Fisheries and marine-research dashboards
- Marine-robotics pre-checks — pair with /v1/awareness for a signed go/no-go
FAQ
How fresh is the data?
OISST is a daily analysis published with a ~1–2 day lag; the response carries the analysis date and age so nothing pretends to be more current than it is.
Is the marine-heatwave flag official?
No — it's a simple anomaly-threshold heuristic (≥ +1.0 °C), clearly labelled in the response. The formal Hobday et al. 90th-percentile definition needs a full climatology percentile, which this doesn't compute.
Which regions are built in?
Great Barrier Reef (default), Moreton Bay, Tasmania, Ningaloo and more — or pass any ocean lat,lon and get the nearest quarter-degree cell.
What does it cost?
Keyless to try over MCP and POST /v1/batch; free REST key; paid plans from US$19/month — /#pricing. The underlying data is a US Government work in the public domain.