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However, those reconstruction models built on a land dataset are not directly applicable to the ocean due to different underlying surfaces. In this study, we built reconstruction models based on U-Net (named STR-UNet) for different underlying surfaces (land, coast, offshore, and sea), and evaluated their applicability to the ocean. Our results suggest that the comprehensive use of land, coast, and offshore datasets should be more suitable for reconstruction in the ocean than using the sea dataset. The comprehensive performances (in terms of RMSE, MAE, POD, CSI, FAR, and BIAS) of the Land-Model, Coast-Model, and Offshore-Model in the ocean are superior to those of the Sea-Model, e.g., with RMSE being 5.61, 6.08, 5.06, and 7.73 in the oceanic area (Region B), respectively. We then analyzed the importance of different types of features on different underlying surfaces for reconstruction by using interpretability methods combined with physical meaning. Overall, satellite cloud-related features are most important, followed by satellite water-related features and satellite temperature-related features. For the transition of the model from land to coast, then offshore, the importance of satellite water-related features gradually increases, while the importance of satellite cloud-related features and satellite temperature-related features gradually decreases. It is worth mentioning that in the offshore region, the importance of satellite water-related features slightly exceeds the importance of satellite cloud-related features. Finally, based on the performance of the case, the results show that the STR-UNet reconstruction models we established can accurately reconstruct the shape, location, intensity, and range of the convective center, achieving the goal of detecting severe convective weather where a radar is not present.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15123065","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,13]],"date-time":"2023-06-13T02:00:45Z","timestamp":1686621645000},"page":"3065","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Radar Echo Reconstruction in Oceanic Area via Deep Learning of Satellite Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Xiaoqi","family":"Yu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment for Temperate East Asia & Center for Artificial Intelligence in Atmospheric Science, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China"},{"name":"College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"given":"Xiao","family":"Lou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment for Temperate East Asia & Center for Artificial Intelligence in Atmospheric Science, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China"},{"name":"College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"given":"Yan","family":"Yan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"93110 Troops, People\u2019s Liberation Army of China, Beijing 100843, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0638-137X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhongwei","family":"Yan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment for Temperate East Asia & Center for Artificial Intelligence in Atmospheric Science, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China"},{"name":"College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"given":"Wencong","family":"Cheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Aviation Meteorological Institute, Beijing 100085, China"}]},{"given":"Zhibin","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group, Beijing 100102, China"}]},{"given":"Deming","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment for Temperate East Asia & Center for Artificial Intelligence in Atmospheric Science, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China"},{"name":"College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"given":"Jiangjiang","family":"Xia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment for Temperate East Asia & Center for Artificial Intelligence in Atmospheric Science, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China"},{"name":"College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1374","DOI":"10.1175\/1520-0477(1980)061<1374:MCC>2.0.CO;2","article-title":"Mesoscale convective complexes","volume":"61","author":"Maddox","year":"1980","journal-title":"Bull. 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