Changes in ocean temperature over time have important implications for marine ecosystems and global climate change. Marine temperature changes with time and has the features of closeness, period, and trend. This paper analyzes the temporal dependence of marine temperature variation at multiple depths and proposes a new ocean-temperature time-series prediction method based on the temporal dependence parameter matrix fusion of historical observation data. The Temporal Dependence-Based Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Networks for Marine Temperature Prediction (TD-LSTM) proves better than other methods while predicting sea-surface temperature (SST) by using Argo data. The performances were good at various depths and different regions.

With the rapid development of sensor networks, big marine data arises. To efficiently use these data to predict thermoclines, we propose a machine learning approach. We firstly focus on analyzing how temperature, salinity, and geographic location features affect the formation of thermocline. Then, an improved model based on entropy value method for the thermocline selection is demonstrated. The experiments adopt BOA Argo data sets and the experimental results show that our novel model can predict thermoclines and related data effectively.

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The emerging Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) and deep learning technologies are combined to provide a novel, intelligent, and efficient data processing and analyzing schema, which facilitates the sensing and computing abilities for the smart ocean. The underwater acoustic (UWA) communication network is an essential part of IoUT. The thermocline, in which temperature and density change drastically, affects the connectivity and communication performance between IoUT nodes, as well as the network topologies. In this paper, we propose DeepOcean, a deep learning framework for spatio-temporal ocean sensing data prediction, which consists of a generative module and a prediction module. We implement the generative module with a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) to capture the spatial dependencies and construct high-resolution data based on sparse observations. The prediction module is implemented with our proposed Multivariate Convolutional LSTM (MVC-LSTM) neural network, which captures both the spatio-temporal dependencies and the interactions of different oceanographic features for prediction. We evaluate the effectiveness of DeepOcean with Argo data, where the proposed framework outperforms fifteen state-of-art baselines in terms of accuracy. INDEX TERMS Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT), deep learning, spatio-temporal prediction, multivariate convolutional LSTM (MVC-LSTM) neural network, thermocline.