Chinese researchers build AI system for major ocean current prediction--China Economic Net

Latest News Chinese researchers build AI system for major ocean current prediction Last Updated: 2023-01-24 16:46 | p p p BEIJING, Jan.24 (Xinhua) - Chinese researchers have built an artificial intelligence (AI) inference and prediction system for the Indonesian Throughflow (ITF), which can make valid ocean current predictions seven months in advance.In this new study, Chinese researchers from the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology used satellite data and AI models based on deep learning to construct the inference and prediction system for the ITF.Meanwhile, the AI system can also make a valid prediction seven months in advance.

The ITF serves as a main branch of the global heat/salt conveyor belt by transferring the upper ocean waters from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean through the Indonesian seas.The researchers used sea surface heights between the Indian and Pacific Ocean basins to design their AI model and trained the model with oceanic data sets.