Subsurface Temperature Estimation from Sea Surface Data Using Neural Network Models in the Western Pacific Ocean

Haoyu Wang, Tingqiang Song, Shanliang Zhu, Shuguo Yang and Liqiang Feng
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Haoyu Wang: College of Information Science and Technology, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266061, China
Tingqiang Song: College of Information Science and Technology, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266061, China
Shanliang Zhu: Research Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266061, China
Shuguo Yang: Research Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266061, China
Liqiang Feng: Marine Science Data Center, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China

Mathematics, 2021, vol. 9, issue 8, 1-14

Abstract: Estimating the ocean subsurface thermal structure (OSTS) based on multisource sea surface data in the western Pacific Ocean is of great significance for studying ocean dynamics and El Niño phenomenon, but it is challenging to accurately estimate the OSTS from sea surface parameters in the area. This paper proposed an improved neural network model to estimate the OSTS from 0–2000 m from multisource sea surface data including sea surface temperature (SST), sea surface salinity (SSS), sea surface height (SSH), and sea surface wind (SSW). In the model experiment, the rasterized monthly average data from 2005–2015 and 2016 were selected as the training and testing set, respectively. The results showed that the sea surface parameters selected in the paper had a positive effect on the estimation process, and the average RMSE value of the ocean subsurface temperature (OST) estimated by the proposed model was 0.55 °C. Moreover, there were pronounced seasonal variation signals in the upper layers (the upper 200 m), however, this signal gradually diminished with increasing depth. Compared with known estimation models such as the random forest (RF), the multiple linear regression (MLR), and the extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), the proposed model outperformed these models under the data conditions of the paper. This research can provide an advanced artificial intelligence technique for estimating subsurface thermohaline structure in major sea areas.

Keywords: ocean subsurface temperature; multisource sea surface data; neural network model; western Pacific Ocean (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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