scholarly journals Can the Structure Similarity of Training Patches Affect the Sea Surface Temperature Deep Learning Super-Resolution?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 3568
Author(s):  
Bo Ping ◽  
Yunshan Meng ◽  
Cunjin Xue ◽  
Fenzhen Su

Meso- and fine-scale sea surface temperature (SST) is an essential parameter in oceanographic research. Remote sensing is an efficient way to acquire global SST. However, single infrared-based and microwave-based satellite-derived SST cannot obtain complete coverage and high-resolution SST simultaneously. Deep learning super-resolution (SR) techniques have exhibited the ability to enhance spatial resolution, offering the potential to reconstruct the details of SST fields. Current SR research focuses mainly on improving the structure of the SR model instead of training dataset selection. Different from generating the low-resolution images by downscaling the corresponding high-resolution images, the high- and low-resolution SST are derived from different sensors. Hence, the structure similarity of training patches may affect the SR model training and, consequently, the SST reconstruction. In this study, we first discuss the influence of training dataset selection on SST SR performance, showing that the training dataset determined by the structure similarity index (SSIM) of 0.6 can result in higher reconstruction accuracy and better image quality. In addition, in the practical stage, the spatial similarity between the low-resolution input and the objective high-resolution output is a key factor for SST SR. Moreover, the training dataset obtained from the actual AMSR2 and MODIS SST images is more suitable for SST SR because of the skin and sub-skin temperature difference. Finally, the SST reconstruction accuracies obtained from different SR models are relatively consistent, yet the differences in reconstructed image quality are rather significant.

Author(s):  
David T. Lloyd ◽  
Aaron Abela ◽  
Reuben A. Farrugia ◽  
Anthony Galea ◽  
Gianluca Valentino

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 744
Author(s):  
J. Xavier Prochaska ◽  
Peter C. Cornillon ◽  
David M. Reiman

We performed an out-of-distribution (OOD) analysis of ∼12,000,000 semi-independent 128 × 128 pixel2 sea surface temperature (SST) regions, which we define as cutouts, from all nighttime granules in the MODIS R2019 Level-2 public dataset to discover the most complex or extreme phenomena at the ocean’s surface. Our algorithm (ULMO) is a probabilistic autoencoder (PAE), which combines two deep learning modules: (1) an autoencoder, trained on ∼150,000 random cutouts from 2010, to represent any input cutout with a 512-dimensional latent vector akin to a (non-linear) Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis; and (2) a normalizing flow, which maps the autoencoder’s latent space distribution onto an isotropic Gaussian manifold. From the latter, we calculated a log-likelihood (LL) value for each cutout and defined outlier cutouts to be those in the lowest 0.1% of the distribution. These exhibit large gradients and patterns characteristic of a highly dynamic ocean surface, and many are located within larger complexes whose unique dynamics warrant future analysis. Without guidance, ULMO consistently locates the outliers where the major western boundary currents separate from the continental margin. Prompted by these results, we began the process of exploring the fundamental patterns learned by ULMO thereby identifying several compelling examples. Future work may find that algorithms such as ULMO hold significant potential/promise to learn and derive other, not-yet-identified behaviors in the ocean from the many archives of satellite-derived SST fields. We see no impediment to applying them to other large remote-sensing datasets for ocean science (e.g., SSH and ocean color).


2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 3123-3139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasumasa Miyazawa ◽  
Hiroshi Murakami ◽  
Toru Miyama ◽  
Sergey Varlamov ◽  
Xinyu Guo ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tongwen Wu ◽  
Rucong Yu ◽  
Yixiong Lu ◽  
Weihua Jie ◽  
Yongjie Fang ◽  
...  

Abstract. BCC-CSM2-HR is a high-resolution version of the Beijing Climate Center (BCC) Climate System Model. Its development is on the basis of the medium-resolution version BCC-CSM2-MR which is the baseline for BCC participation to the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6). This study documents the high-resolution model, highlights major improvements in the representation of atmospheric dynamic core and physical processes. BCC-CSM2-HR is evaluated for present-day climate simulations from 1971 to 2000, which are performed under CMIP6-prescribed historical forcing, in comparison with its previous medium-resolution version BCC-CSM2-MR. We focus on basic atmospheric mean states over the globe and variabilities in the tropics including the tropic cyclones (TCs), the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), and the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) in the stratosphere. It is shown that BCC-CSM2-HR keeps well the global energy balance and can realistically reproduce main patterns of atmosphere temperature and wind, precipitation, land surface air temperature and sea surface temperature. It also improves in the spatial patterns of sea ice and associated seasonal variations in both hemispheres. The bias of double intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), obvious in BCC-CSM2-MR, is almost disappeared in BCC-CSM2-HR. TC activity in the tropics is increased with resolution enhanced. The cycle of ENSO, the eastward propagative feature and convection intensity of MJO, the downward propagation of QBO in BCC-CSM2-HR are all in a better agreement with observation than their counterparts in BCC-CSM2-MR. We also note some weakness in BCC-CSM2-HR, such as the excessive cloudiness in the eastern basin of the tropical Pacific with cold Sea Surface Temperature (SST) biases and the insufficient number of tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic.


2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bambang Sukresno ◽  
Dinarika Jatisworo ◽  
Rizki Hanintyo

Sea surface temperature (SST) is an important variable in oceanography. One of the SST data can be obtained from the Global Observation Mission-Climate (GCOM-C) satellite. Therefore, this data needs to be validated before being applied in various fields. This study aimed to validate SST data from the GCOM-C satellite in the Indonesian Seas. Validation was performed using the data of Multi-sensor Ultra-high Resolution sea surface temperature (MUR-SST) and in situ sea surface temperature Quality Monitor (iQuam). The data used are the daily GCOM-C SST dataset from January to December 2018, as well as the daily dataset from MUR-SST and iQuam in the same period. The validation process was carried out using the three-way error analysis method. The results showed that the accuracy of the GCOM-C SST was 0.37oC.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evangelos Moschos ◽  
Alexandre Stegner ◽  
Olivier Schwander ◽  
Patrick Gallinari

<p>Mesoscale eddies are oceanic vortices with radii of tens of kilometers, which live on for several months or even years. They carry large amounts of heat, salt, nutrients, and pollutants from their regions of formation to remote areas, making it important to detect and track them. Using satellite altimetric maps, mesoscale eddies have been detected via remote sensing with advancing performance over the last years <strong>[1]</strong>. However, the spatio-temporal interpolation between satellite track measurements, needed to produce these maps, induces a limit to the spatial resolution (1/12° in the Med Sea) and large amounts of uncertainty in non-measured areas.</p><p>Nevertheless, mesoscale oceanic eddies also have a visible signature on other satellite imagery such as Sea Surface Temperature (SST), portraying diverse patterns of coherent vortices, temperature gradients, and swirling filaments. Learning the regularities of such signatures defines a challenging pattern recognition task, due to their complex structure but also to the cloud coverage which can corrupt a large fraction of the image.</p><p>We introduce a novel Deep Learning approach to classify sea temperature eddy signatures <strong>[2]</strong>. We create a large dataset of SST patches from satellite imagery in the Mediterranean Sea, containing Anticyclonic, Cyclonic, or No Eddy signatures, based on altimetric eddy detections of the DYNED-Atlas <strong>[3]</strong>. Our trained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) can differentiate between these signatures with an accuracy of more than 90%, robust to a high level of cloud coverage.</p><p>We furtherly evaluate the efficiency of our classifier on SST patches extracted from oceanographic numerical model outputs in the Mediterranean Sea. Our promising results suggest that the CNN could complement the detection, tracking, and prediction of the path of mesoscale oceanic eddies.</p><p><strong>[1]</strong> <em>Chelton, D. B., Schlax, M. G. and Samelson, R. M. (2011). Global observations of nonlinear mesoscale eddies. Progress in oceanography, 91(2),167-216.</em></p><p><strong>[2]</strong> <em>E. Moschos, A. Stegner, O. Schwander and P. Gallinari, "Classification of Eddy Sea Surface Temperature Signatures Under Cloud Coverage," in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 13, pp. 3437-3447, 2020, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2020.3001830.</em></p><p><strong>[3]</strong> <em>https://www.lmd.polytechnique.fr/dyned/</em></p>


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