A Self‐Supervised Framework for Refined Reconstruction of Geophysical Fields via Domain Adaptation

Abstract

Abstract Reconstructing fine‐grained, detailed spatial structures from time‐evolving coarse‐scale geophysical fields has been a long‐standing challenge. Current deep learning approaches addressing this issue generally require massive fine‐scale fields as supervision, which is often unavailable due to limitations in existing observational systems and the scarcity of widespread high‐precision sensors. Here, we present AdaptDeep, a self‐supervised framework for refined reconstruction of geophysical fields via domain adaptation from the coarse‐scale source domain to the fine‐scale target domain. This method incorporates two pretext tasks, cropped field reconstruction and temporal augmentation‐assisted contrastive learning, to leverage spatial and temporal correlations in the target domain. A global propagation structure is proposed in the feature extraction network to leverage bidirectional information for enhanced long‐range dependencies and robustness against estimation errors. In experiments, AdaptDeep correctly identifies local, fine structures and significantly recovers 81.2% detailed information in sea surface temperature fields.

Keywords

• self‐supervised learning
• geophysical field
• domain adaptation
• pretext task