A Microwave Radiometer Residual Inversion Neural Network Based on a Deadband Conditioning Model

Microwave radiometers are passive remote sensing devices that are widely used in marine atmospheric observations. The accuracy of its inversion of temperature and humidity profiles is an important indicator of its performance. Back Propagation (BP) neural networks are widely used in the study of mic...

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Main Authors: Yuxin Zhao, Changzhe Wu, Peng Wu, Kexin Zhu, Xiong Deng
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-09-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/11/10/1887
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Changzhe Wu
Peng Wu
Kexin Zhu
Xiong Deng
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Changzhe Wu
Peng Wu
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Xiong Deng
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description Microwave radiometers are passive remote sensing devices that are widely used in marine atmospheric observations. The accuracy of its inversion of temperature and humidity profiles is an important indicator of its performance. Back Propagation (BP) neural networks are widely used in the study of microwave radiometer inversion problems. However, the BP network which is carried by the radiometer inversion suffers from profile data collapse. To address this, this study introduced a residual network to improve the accuracy of water vapor vertical profiles. Aiming at the problem of large inversion temperature error due to the effect of turbulence on the light-travel phase induced by stationary fronts along the seashore in the subtropical monsoon climate region, we used historical data to establish the seasonal a priori mean profile and design a dead-zone residual adjustment model. The accuracy of the residual network and the deadband-adjusted residual network was verified using the meteorological records of the Taizhou region from 2013–2018, with the experimental data and BP hierarchical network as the comparison term. We found no data collapse in the temperature and humidity profile inversion results of the residual network. Relative to the initial BP hierarchical algorithm, where the error of water vapor in the range 6–10 km was reduced by 80%, the dead zone residual adjustment model in the inverse-temperature phenomenon reduced the sum of squares error by 21%, compared with the ordinary residual network inversion results. Our findings provide new insights into the accuracy improvement of radiometer remote sensing.
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spelling doaj.art-b5b6819494a7408eb8e9212864c9563f2023-11-19T16:58:06ZengMDPI AGJournal of Marine Science and Engineering2077-13122023-09-011110188710.3390/jmse11101887A Microwave Radiometer Residual Inversion Neural Network Based on a Deadband Conditioning ModelYuxin Zhao0Changzhe Wu1Peng Wu2Kexin Zhu3Xiong Deng4College of Intelligent Systems Science and Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, ChinaCollege of Intelligent Systems Science and Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, ChinaCollege of Intelligent Systems Science and Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, ChinaCollege of Intelligent Systems Science and Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, ChinaCollege of Intelligent Systems Science and Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, ChinaMicrowave radiometers are passive remote sensing devices that are widely used in marine atmospheric observations. The accuracy of its inversion of temperature and humidity profiles is an important indicator of its performance. Back Propagation (BP) neural networks are widely used in the study of microwave radiometer inversion problems. However, the BP network which is carried by the radiometer inversion suffers from profile data collapse. To address this, this study introduced a residual network to improve the accuracy of water vapor vertical profiles. Aiming at the problem of large inversion temperature error due to the effect of turbulence on the light-travel phase induced by stationary fronts along the seashore in the subtropical monsoon climate region, we used historical data to establish the seasonal a priori mean profile and design a dead-zone residual adjustment model. The accuracy of the residual network and the deadband-adjusted residual network was verified using the meteorological records of the Taizhou region from 2013–2018, with the experimental data and BP hierarchical network as the comparison term. We found no data collapse in the temperature and humidity profile inversion results of the residual network. Relative to the initial BP hierarchical algorithm, where the error of water vapor in the range 6–10 km was reduced by 80%, the dead zone residual adjustment model in the inverse-temperature phenomenon reduced the sum of squares error by 21%, compared with the ordinary residual network inversion results. Our findings provide new insights into the accuracy improvement of radiometer remote sensing.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/11/10/1887microwave radiometerseaside meteorological observationsresidual neural networkinverse temperatureatmospheric profile inversion
spellingShingle Yuxin Zhao
Changzhe Wu
Peng Wu
Kexin Zhu
Xiong Deng
A Microwave Radiometer Residual Inversion Neural Network Based on a Deadband Conditioning Model
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
microwave radiometer
seaside meteorological observations
residual neural network
inverse temperature
atmospheric profile inversion
title A Microwave Radiometer Residual Inversion Neural Network Based on a Deadband Conditioning Model
title_full A Microwave Radiometer Residual Inversion Neural Network Based on a Deadband Conditioning Model
title_fullStr A Microwave Radiometer Residual Inversion Neural Network Based on a Deadband Conditioning Model
title_full_unstemmed A Microwave Radiometer Residual Inversion Neural Network Based on a Deadband Conditioning Model
title_short A Microwave Radiometer Residual Inversion Neural Network Based on a Deadband Conditioning Model
title_sort microwave radiometer residual inversion neural network based on a deadband conditioning model
topic microwave radiometer
seaside meteorological observations
residual neural network
inverse temperature
atmospheric profile inversion
url https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/11/10/1887
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