Predicted Antarctic Heat Flow and Uncertainties using Machine Learning

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We predicted Antarctic Geothermal Heat Flow (GHF) using a machine learning approach. The adopted approach estimates GHF from multiple geophysical and geological data sets, assuming that GHF is substantially related to the geodynamic setting of the plates. We applied a Gradient Boosted Regression Tree algorithm to find an optimal prediction model relating GHF to the observables. In Antarctica, only a sparse number of direct GHF measurements are available, and therefore, in addition to the global models, we explore the use of regional data sets of Antarctica as well as its tectonic Gondwana neighbors to refine the predictions. We hereby demonstrated the need for adding reliable data to the machine learning approach. Here, we present a new geothermal heat flow map, which exhibits intermediate values compared to previous models, ranging from 35 to 156 mW/m2 and showing visible connections to the conjugate margins in Australia, Africa, and India. Also, the data set contains minimum and maximum heat flow values and maximum absolute differences, resulting from calculating three additional heat flow models with different feature set-ups to assess the direct uncertainties.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.930237
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB021499
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.930237
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Creator Lösing, Mareen ORCID logo; Ebbing, Jörg
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2021
Funding Reference German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 5472008 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/5472008 Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 4 data points
Discipline Earth System Research