Deriving Sea Subsurface Temperature Fields from Satellite Remote Sensing
Data Using a Generative Adversarial Network Model
Abstract
Ingenious use of multisource satellite observations to accurately invert
global and regional subsurface thermohaline structure is essential for
understanding ocean interior processes, but extremely challenging. This
study proposes a new method from the sea surface information inverting
daily subsurface temperature (ST) based on generative adversarial
network (GAN) model in China’s marginal seas. The proposed GAN-based
model can project the STs from sea surface information (SLA, SSTA, SST)
with a high resolution of 1/12°. A traditional regression-based model,
Modular Ocean Data Assimilation System (MODAS), is set up the same
experiments for the sake of comparison. The results show that the
averaged RMSE results are less than 1.45°C in upper 200m and the highest
averaged R2 of 0.97 at the 70m level, which are better than that of
MODAS. Errors analysis and typical oceanographic phenomena analysis
results show the superiority of the proposed GAN-based model in this
study. This study can provide high-precision daily ST data from sea
surface information, which can be expanded to further studies on the
ocean interior variation characteristics.