Reconstructing the Subsurface Temperature Field by Using Sea Surface Data Through Self-Organizing Map Method

Cheng Chen, Kunde Yang, Yuanliang Ma, Yang Wang

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Abstract

Self-organizing map (SOM) method combined with the empirical orthogonal function was used to reconstruct the subsurface temperature field by using sea surface data in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. In contrast to the traditional method, SOM method can extract nonlinear relations from the data and is more suitable for nonlinear dynamics in the ocean. Error statistics show that SOM method provides reconstructions of the subsurface temperature field with the majority of relative errors below 20% at 0-1000-m depth.

Original languageEnglish
Article number8458147
Pages (from-to)1812-1816
Number of pages5
JournalIEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
Volume15
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2018

Keywords

  • Empirical orthogonal function (EOF)
  • sea surface data
  • self-organizing map (SOM)
  • subsurface temperature reconstruction

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