Basis functions for shallow-water temperature profiles based on the internal-wave eigenmodes
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Abstract: The shallow-water temperature profile is typically parameterized using a few empirical orthogonal function (EOF) coefficients. However, when the experimental area is poorly known or highly variable, the adaptability of the EOFs will be significantly reduced. In this study, a new set of basis functions, generated by combining the internal-wave eigenmodes with the average temperature gradient, is developed for characterizing the temperature perturbations. Temperature profiles recorded by a thermistor chain in the South China Sea in 2015 are processed and analyzed. Compared to the EOFs, the new set of basis functions has higher reconstruction accuracy and adaptability; it is also more stable in ocean regions that have internal waves.
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Key words:
- temperature profile /
- basis function /
- internal-wave eigenmode /
- EOF /
- sound speed profile
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Figure 1. The experimental temperature data. a. The whole temperature profiles from September 13, 11:00 to September 17, 06:00 (GTM), recorded every 30 s. The data on the left of the black dotted line is the training set, and the data on the right of the black dotted line is the test set. b. The temperature training set.
Figure 6. The reconstruction of a randomly selected temperature profile by five coefficients. The black dotted line represents the measurement temperature profile, the red line represents the reconstruction results by the EOF11, and the blue dotted line represents the reconstruction results by the IWM11.
Figure 9. The reconstruction of the selected temperature profile using five coefficients. The black dotted line represents the measurement temperature profile, the red line represents the reconstruction results using the EOF23-11, and the blue dotted line represents the reconstruction results using the IWM23-11.
Figure 11. The average reconstruction errors using the 16 different basis functions. The red square represents the average reconstruction errors using the EOFs, and the blue circular represents the average reconstruction errors using the IWMs. The length of the vertical line represents the standard deviation. * represents EOF or IWM.
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