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Under the same sea state, when the significant wave height, wave period, wind speed, and other marine environmental parameters are different, the backward reflectivity of the sea clutter corresponding to the wave structure is not the same. Due to the complex and variable nature of sea clutter characteristics across various wave structures, a meticulous classification of wave structures by integrating multiple marine environmental parameters enables the achievement of the high-precision prediction of sea clutter reflectivity. In this study, utilizing measured data of diverse marine environmental parameters in the Yellow Sea, China, we applied the Affinity Propagation algorithm to data clustering. Based on the clustering outcomes, we accomplished a refined classification of wave structures and developed a discriminant model to precisely classify the refined wave structure, facilitating the categorization of new data. In order to achieve more accurate predictions of sea clutter reflectivity, this paper proposes a deep neural network model named GIT-HYB-DNN, which combines the empirical models GIT and HYB. The GIT-HYB-DNN model is applied to predict the reflectivity for each wave structure category separately. The results demonstrate that the root mean square errors of sea clutter reflectivity predictions for different wave structure categories in this study range from 0.62 dB to 0.84 dB. The prediction errors are significantly reduced compared to the root mean square error of 1.08 dB, which was obtained without refined wave structure classification. 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