Arulananthan Kanapathipillai

Dr. Arulananthan Kanapathipillai


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Academic Career Length

1Year (2026-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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10 January 2026 in Remote Sensing
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JXJinTao Xu
JinTao Xu
YLYao Luo
Yao Luo
GWGuanglin Wu
Guanglin Wu
WWWeiqiang Wang
Weiqiang Wang
ZZZHENQIU ZHANG
ZHENQIU ZHANG
AKArulananthan Kanapathipillai
Arulananthan Kanapathipillai
This study addresses the issues of sparse observations from buoys in the tropical Indian Ocean and systematic biases in reanalysis products by proposing a daily-mean wind speed reconstruction framework that integrates multi-source meteorological fields. This study also considers the impact of different source domains on model pre-training, with the goal of providing reliable data support for wind energy assessment. The model was pre-trained using data from the Americas and tropical Pacific buoys as the source domain and then fine-tuned on Indian Ocean buoys as the target domain. Using annual leave-one-out cross-validation, we evaluated the model’s performance against uncorrected ERA5 and CCMP data while comparing three deep reconstruction models. The results demonstrate that deep models significantly reduce reanalysis bias: the RMSE decreases from approximately 1.00 m/s to 0.88 m/s, while R2 improves by approximately 8.9% and 7.1% compared to ERA5/CCMP, respectively. The Branch CNN–Transformer outperforms standalone LSTM or CNN models in overall accuracy and interpretability, with transfer learning yielding directional gains for specific wind conditions in complex topography and monsoon zones. The 20-year wind energy data reconstructed using this model indicates wind energy densities 60–150 W/m2 higher than in the reanalysis data in open high-wind zones such as the southern Arabian Sea and the Somali coast. This study not only provides a pathway for constructing high-precision wind speed databases for tropical Indian Ocean wind resource assessment but also offers precise quantitative support for delineating priority development zones for offshore wind farms and mitigating near-shore engineering risks.