Mapping Antarctic geothermal heat flow with deep neural networks optimized by particle swarm optimization algorithm

Liu, Shaoxia; Tang, Xueyuan; Yang, Shuhu; Wang, Lijuan; Liu, Jianjie

doi:10.5194/tc-20-1543-2026

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Mapping Antarctic geothermal heat flow with deep neural networks optimized by particle swarm optimization algorithm

Shaoxia Liu, Xueyuan Tang, Shuhu Yang, Lijuan Wang, and Jianjie Liu

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