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Abstract

RC-Referee Comment AC-Author Comment MC-Manuscript change RC-In this contribution, the authors conduct a skill assessment of two operational ocean models running in the North West European Shelf with different configurations and spatial resolutions. Since the increased spatial resolution might require ad hoc metrics to properly reflect the model performance and reduce the impact of so-called double-penalty effects (occurring when using point-to-point comparisons with features present in the model but misplaced with respect to the observations), the present work is welcomed. It addresses this interesting and essential topic by intercomparing models' performances in overlapping regions to infer their respective strengths and weak-C1