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Accurate prediction of sea surface temperature is important for coping with climate change, marine ecological protection, and marine economic development. In this study, the SST prediction performance of ConvLSTM and ST-ConvLSTM with different input lengths, prediction lengths, and hidden sizes is investigated. The experimental results show that: (1) The input length has an impact on the prediction results of SST, but it does not mean that the longer the input length, the better the prediction performance. ConvLSTM and ST-ConvLSTM have the best prediction performance when the input length is set to 1, and the prediction performance gradually decreases as the input length increases. (2) Prediction length affects SST prediction. As the prediction length increases, the prediction performance gradually decreases. When other parameters are kept constant and only the prediction length is changed, the ConvLSTM gets the best result when the prediction length is set to 2, and the ST-ConvLSTM gets the best result when the prediction length is set to 1. (3) The setting of the hidden size has a great influence on the prediction ability of the sea surface temperature, but the hidden size cannot be set blindly. For ST-ConvLSTM, although the prediction performance of SST is better when the hidden size is set to 128 than when it is set to 64, the consequent computational cost increases by about 50%, and the performance only improves by about 10%.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15061656","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,20]],"date-time":"2023-03-20T03:09:37Z","timestamp":1679281777000},"page":"1656","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":41,"title":["Prediction of Sea Surface Temperature in the South China Sea Based on Deep Learning"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2047-0988","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Peng","family":"Hao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Physical Oceanography and Remote Sensing, Ocean College, Zhejiang University, Zhoushan 316021, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7331-7610","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shuang","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Physical Oceanography and Remote Sensing, Ocean College, Zhejiang University, Zhoushan 316021, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jinbao","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Physical Oceanography and Remote Sensing, Ocean College, Zhejiang University, Zhoushan 316021, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yu","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Physical Oceanography and Remote Sensing, Ocean College, Zhejiang University, Zhoushan 316021, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"14291","DOI":"10.1029\/97JC01444","article-title":"Progress during TOGA in understanding and modeling global teleconnections associated with tropical sea surface temperatures","volume":"103","author":"Trenberth","year":"1998","journal-title":"J. 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