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Drift Field Net: Learning Ocean Lagrangian advection fields from in-situ and satellite observations

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 14, 2026 · UTC

The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (NPSG) is a major accumulation zone for floating plastic debris, resulting from basin-scale convergent ocean circulation. Effective cleanup strategies in this region rely on accurate forecasts of Lagrangian particle drift. Here, we introduce Drift Field Net (DFN), a deep neural network that predicts ocean surface flow fields from operational satellite observations. DFN is trained using a novel two-stage strategy that combines pretraining on simulated data with Lagrangian fine-tuning based on an advection-consistent loss function. This physics-informed optimiz

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