Benchmarking Generative Models for Weather Data Assimilation on Real Station Observations

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arXiv:2610.00728v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Weather reanalysis products rely on computationally intensive numerical weather predictions followed by data assimilation that corrects the forecast toward observations. Deep generative models offer a cheaper alternative that shifts much of this cost from inference to offline training. However, existing generative approaches have been evaluated on synthetic observations or under different datasets and evaluation schemes, making it unclear which des