Volume 40, Issue 10 e13446
ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Piece-wise constant cluster modelling of dynamics of upwelling patterns

Susana Nascimento

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Susana Nascimento

Department of Computer Science and NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics (NOVA-LINCS), NOVA School of Science and Technology, Lisboa, Portugal

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Susana Nascimento, Department of Computer Science and NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics (NOVA-LINCS), NOVA School of Science and Technology, Lisboa, Portugal.

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Alexandre Martins

Alexandre Martins

Department of Computer Science and NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics (NOVA-LINCS), NOVA School of Science and Technology, Lisboa, Portugal

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Paulo Relvas

Paulo Relvas

Department of Earth Marine and Environmental Sciences, Universidade do Algarve / Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), Faro, Portugal

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Joaquim F. Luís

Joaquim F. Luís

Department of Earth Marine and Environmental Sciences, Universidade do Algarve / Instituto Don Luis (IDL), Faro, Portugal

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Boris Mirkin

Boris Mirkin

Department of Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation

Department of Computer Science, Birkbeck University of London, London, UK

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First published: 12 September 2023
Citations: 1

Abstract

A comprehensive approach is presented to analyse season's coastal upwelling represented by weekly sea surface temperature (SST) image grids. Our three-stage data recovery clustering method assumes that the season's upwelling can be divided into shorter periods of stability, ranges, each to be represented by a constant core and variable shell parts. Corresponding clustering algorithms parameters are automatically derived by using the least-squares clustering criterion. The approach has been successfully applied to real-world SST data covering two distinct regions: Portuguese coast and Morocco coast, for 16 years each.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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