Articles | Volume 19, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-9235-2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-9235-2026
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29 Sep 2026
Model description paper |  | 29 Sep 2026

China regional 3 km downscaling based on residual Corrective Diffusion model

Honglu Sun, Hao Jing, Zhixiang Dai, Sa Xiao, Wei Xue, Jian Sun, and Qifeng Lu

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This study represents the first application of CorrDiff (Corrective Diffusion), a diffusion-based model, to achieve 3 km resolution statistical downscaling over China by integrating various variables at multiple levels. Through structural improvements to CorrDiff, our methods produce forecasts that outperform the China Meteorological Administration Mesoscale Model for almost all target variables. Our results show that for radar reflectivity prediction, CorrDiff yields more realistic outputs than regression models.
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