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Adapting Aurora for Basin-Scale Scalar Prediction

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Really impressed by Aurora, it looks like a fantastic step forward for Earth system modeling. For my use case, I was wondering how should I adopt it for basin-scale scalar prediction tasks (eg. River Discharge)? Is it best to use the encoder as a frozen feature extractor on gridded atmospheric inputs and pool spatial tokens before a regression head, or is fine-tuning typically necessary? Also, should inputs match the full pretraining variable stack and temporal resolution?

Thank you so much for making your amazing work available to use!

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No files, tests, or entry points are mentioned. First clarify whether this is a request for documentation, an example workflow, or model changes for basin-scale scalar prediction; completion would require an agreed approach for pooling inputs, fine-tuning, and required variables and temporal resolution.

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Tech stack
python
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machine-learning
Issue type
Feature
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Over a week
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Needs clarification
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