The invention discloses a
sea surface height anomaly (SLA) multi-step space-time prediction method based on combination of self-attention Transform and a
recurrent neural network, and the method comprises a data preprocessing module, a space-time
feature extraction module, a prediction generation module and a space reconstruction module, and comprises the following steps: inputting SLA data obtained by
satellite height measurement into the data preprocessing module; performing blocking and normalization
processing to generate a standardized input sequence; inputting the standardized sequence into a spatio-temporal
feature extraction module, extracting global
spatial dependency characteristics by using a self-attention Transform module, and extracting dynamic change characteristics of time dimensions through a
recurrent neural network; recursively generating SLA prediction data of a plurality of time steps by using a prediction generation module to form a multi-step prediction sequence; and finally, the multi-step prediction sequence is restored to the original spatial resolution through a
spatial reconstruction module, and a final prediction result is obtained. According to the method, the self-attention Transform and the
recurrent neural network are innovatively combined, the limitation of a traditional method in modeling of the complex spatial-temporal dynamic characteristics of the SLA is broken through, the multi-step prediction precision is remarkably improved, and effective
technical support is provided for ocean mesoscale vortex monitoring and environment forecasting.