Neural Computing and Applications to Marine Data Analytics

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17 June 2021

Numerical wave models have been developed for the wave forecast in last two decades; however, it faces challenges in terms of the requirement of large computing resources and improvement of accuracy. Based on a convolutional long short-term memory (ConvLSTM) algorithm, this paper establishes a two-dimensional (2D) significant wave height (SWH) prediction model for the South and East China Seas trained by WaveWatch III (WW3) reanalysis data. We conduct 24-h predictions under normal and extreme conditions, respectively. Under the normal wave condition, for 6-, 12-, and 24-h forecasting, their correlation coefficients are 0.98, 0.93, and 0.83, and the mean absolute percentage errors are 15, 29, and 61%. Under the extreme condition (typhoon), for 6 and 12 h, their correlation coefficients are 0.98 and 0.94, and the mean absolute percentage errors are 19 and 40%, which is better than the model trained by all the data. It is concluded that the ConvLSTM can be applied to the 2D wave forecast with high accuracy and efficiency.

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15 June 2021
Application of Three Deep Learning Schemes Into Oceanic Eddy Detection
Guangjun Xu
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Xiaoqian Gao

Recent years have witnessed the increase in applications of artificial intelligence (AI) into the detection of oceanic features. Oceanic eddies, ubiquitous in the global ocean, are important in the transport of materials and energy. A series of eddy detection schemes based on oceanic dynamics have been developed while the AI-based eddy identification scheme starts to be reported in literature. In the present study, to find out applicable AI-based schemes in eddy detection, three AI-based algorithms are employed in eddy detection, including the pyramid scene parsing network (PSPNet) algorithm, the DeepLabV3+ algorithm and the bilateral segmentation network (BiSeNet) algorithm. To justify the AI-based eddy detection schemes, the results are compared with one dynamic-based eddy detection method. It is found that more eddies are identified using the three AI-based methods. The three methods’ results are compared in terms of the numbers, sizes and lifetimes of detected eddies. In terms of eddy numbers, the PSPNet algorithm identifies the largest number of ocean eddies among the three AI-based methods. In terms of eddy sizes, the BiSeNet can find more large-scale eddies than the two other methods, because the Spatial Path is introduced into the algorithm to avoid destroying the eddy edge information. Regarding eddy lifetimes, the DeepLabV3+ cannot track longer lifetimes of ocean eddies.

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09 June 2021

Global surface currents are usually inferred from directly observed quantities like sea-surface height, wind stress by applying diagnostic balance relations (like geostrophy and Ekman flow), which provide a good approximation of the dynamics of slow, large-scale currents at large scales and low Rossby numbers. However, newer generation satellite altimeters (like the upcoming SWOT mission) will capture more of the high wavenumber variability associated with the unbalanced components, but the low temporal sampling can potentially lead to aliasing. Applying these balances directly may lead to an incorrect un-physical estimate of the surface flow. In this study we explore Machine Learning (ML) algorithms as an alternate route to infer surface currents from satellite observable quantities. We train our ML models with SSH, SST, and wind stress from available primitive equation ocean GCM simulation outputs as the inputs and make predictions of surface currents (u,v), which are then compared against the true GCM output. As a baseline example, we demonstrate that a linear regression model is ineffective at predicting velocities accurately beyond localized regions. In comparison, a relatively simple neural network (NN) can predict surface currents accurately over most of the global ocean, with lower mean squared errors than geostrophy + Ekman. Using a local stencil of neighboring grid points as additional input features, we can train the deep learning models to effectively “learn” spatial gradients and the physics of surface currents. By passing the stenciled variables through convolutional filters we can help the model learn spatial gradients much faster. Various training strategies are explored using systematic feature hold out and multiple combinations of point and stenciled input data fed through convolutional filters (2D/3D), to understand the effect of each input feature on the NN's ability to accurately represent surface flow. A model sensitivity analysis reveals that besides SSH, geographic information in some form is an essential ingredient required for making accurate predictions of surface currents with deep learning models.

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