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Workshop: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning: Global Perspectives and Local Challenges

Graph-Based Deep Learning for Sea Surface Temperature Forecasts

Ding Ning · Varvara Vetrova · Karin Bryan

Keywords: [ Oceans and marine systems ] [ Other ] [ Classification, regression, and supervised learning ] [ Climate science and climate modeling ] [ Time-series analysis ] [ Data mining ]


Abstract:

Sea surface temperature (SST) forecasts help with managing the marine ecosystem and the aquaculture impacted by anthropogenic climate change. Numerical dynamical models are resource intensive for SST forecasts; machine learning (ML) models could reduce high computational requirements and have been in the focus of the research community recently. ML models normally require a large amount of data for training; environmental data are collected on regularly-spaced grids, so early work mainly used grid-based deep learning (DL) for prediction. However, both grid data and the corresponding DL approaches have inherent problems. As geometric DL has emerged, graphs as a more generalized data structure and graph neural networks (GNNs) have been introduced to the spatiotemporal domains. In this work, we preliminarily explored graph re-sampling and GNNs for global SST forecasts, and GNNs show better one month ahead SST prediction than the persistence model in most oceans in terms of root mean square errors.

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