Beyond Pointwise Error: A Multi-Metric Evaluation of Spatial Climate Downscaling

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arXiv:2610.01579v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Climate downscaling aims to reconstruct fine scale spatial fields from coarse resolution inputs. Evaluating the quality of these reconstructions is challenging: low pointwise error can come at the cost of fine scale variability, while realistic spatial variability can be achieved with inaccurate local structures. The evaluation metric can therefore change which method appears to perform best. This work presents a multi metric benchmark comparing fi