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Using artificial intelligence for identifying the depth of upper-ocean mixed layer
Copy editor: YIN Bo
Received date: 2018-12-14
Request revised date: 2019-04-10
Online published: 2019-10-09
Supported by
National Natural Science Foundation of China(91752108)
National Natural Science Foundation of China(41476167)
National Natural Science Foundation of China(41706029)
National Natural Science Foundation of China(41606010)
Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(2016A030311042)
Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(2016A030310114)
Guangzhou Science and Technology Program Key Project(201804020056)
Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA11030302)
Institution of South China Sea Ecology and Environmental Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences(ISEE2018PY05)
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An artificial intelligence (AI) method for identifying upper-ocean mixed layer depth (MLD) is proposed. In this method, a linear model, whose coefficient and variance are made into a set of statistics to characterize the profile, is established between temperature (density) and pressure (or depth). A subjective priori distribution is set in an initial window. The maximum posterior probability estimate of the mean coefficient value is obtained when the window is moved down from the sea surface, by learning the new data through the Bayesian chain rule and the minimum description length principle. The existence and depth of the mixed layer are determined when the jump of the coefficient is found by using the F-distribution. Using the Argo buoy data measured in the Pacific Ocean in February 2017, and taking the value of the quality index (QI) to estimate the accuracy of the MLD results, we find that this AI method is superior to the gradient method, the threshold method, the Hybrid method, and the relative-variant method.
ZHANG Kang , GUO Shuangxi , HUANG Pengqi , QU Ling , LU Yuanzheng , CEN Xianrong , YU Lusha , ZHOU Weidong , ZHOU Shengqi . Using artificial intelligence for identifying the depth of upper-ocean mixed layer[J]. Journal of Tropical Oceanography, 2019 , 38(5) : 32 -41 . DOI: 10.11978/2018137
图1 数据学习过程示意图图中粉色方框表示窗口 Fig. 1 An example of the learning process. The blue line is the temperature profile. The magenta box represents the current window. The green, gray, and red dotted lines represent the fitting curves in the priori, the updating, and the posterior process, respectively |