Shandong Science

   

Integrated SSA–LSTM–ARMA framework for sea-surface-height prediction

ZHANG Rundai¹, WANG Jianquan², ZHANG Ning²   

  1. 1.Guangzhou Maritime Surveying and Mapping Center, Nanhai Navigation Safety Center, Ministry of Transport of the People’s Republic of China,Guangzhou 510000, China; 2. Key Laboratory of Intelligent Deformation Monitoring, Shandong Provincial Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Jinan 250109, China
  • Received:2025-08-10 Accepted:2026-04-01 Online:2026-06-09
  • Contact: ZHANG Runda E-mail:xpeng16@163.com

Abstract: With the increasing influence of global climate change on sea levels, accurate prediction of sea-surface-height variations is essential for marine environmental monitoring, disaster early warning, and coastal resource management. Using sea-surface-height observations from 28 tide gauge stations along the coast of Japan from 2004 to 2023, this study proposes a prediction framework that integrates Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA), a Long Short-term Memory (LSTM) model, and an Autoregressive Moving Average (ARMA) model. The proposed method is applied to predict sea surface height along the Japanese coast and is compared with an SSA+ARMA hybrid approach. The results indicate that the SSA+LSTM+ARMA model outperforms the conventional SSA+ARMA approach in predicting sea surface height for 2019–2023. Specifically, the annual mean absolute error (MAE) is reduced by approximately 6%–8% relative to SSA+ARMA. Projections for 2024–2025 suggest that sea-surface-height variations will continue to exhibit historical periodicity without significant anomalies, with an overall stable trend. These findings demonstrate that the SSA+LSTM+ARMA model more effectively captures nonlinear dynamics and long-term trends in sea surface height, providing a useful reference for marine management and disaster early warning.

Key words: sea surface height, singular spectrum analysis, long short-term memory neural network, autoregressive moving average, tide gauge, coast of Japan, prediction method

CLC Number: 

  • P732

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