Skill assessment of global, regional, and coastal circulation forecast models: evaluating the benefits of dynamical downscaling in IBI (Iberia–Biscay–Ireland) surface waters

Lorente, Pablo; García-Sotillo, Marcos; Amo-Baladrón, Arancha; Aznar, Roland; Levier, Bruno; Sánchez-Garrido, José C.; Sammartino, Simone; de Pascual-Collar, Álvaro; Reffray, Guillaume; Toledano, Cristina; Álvarez-Fanjul, Enrique

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-967-2019

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22 Jul 2019

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Skill assessment of global, regional, and coastal circulation forecast models: evaluating the benefits of dynamical downscaling in IBI (Iberia–Biscay–Ireland) surface waters

Pablo Lorente, Marcos García-Sotillo, Arancha Amo-Baladrón, Roland Aznar, Bruno Levier, José C. Sánchez-Garrido, Simone Sammartino, Álvaro de Pascual-Collar, Guillaume Reffray, Cristina Toledano, and Enrique Álvarez-Fanjul

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RC1: 'review of OS-2018-168 by Lorente et al.', Diego Macias, 18 Feb 2019
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer-1', Pablo Lorente Jimenez, 26 Apr 2019
RC2: 'review of OS-2018-168', Christian Ferrarin, 21 Mar 2019
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer-2', Pablo Lorente Jimenez, 30 Apr 2019

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AR by Pablo Lorente Jimenez on behalf of the Authors (19 May 2019) Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (23 May 2019) by Ananda Pascual

RR by Christian Ferrarin (07 Jun 2019)

Suggestions for revision or reasons for rejection

The authors improved significantly this revised version of the manuscript, addressing adequately and carefully the reviewers concerns. I particularly enjoyed reading the paper, which is clear, to the point and most interesting.

I've only some minor comments:
- In the Abstract (and also in other sections, eg. Pag. 17) the authors states that “SAMPA appeared to better reproduce the reversal events detected with HFR estimations, demonstrating the added value of imposing accurate meteorologically-driven barotropic velocities in the open boundaries (imported from NIVMAR storm surge model) to take into account the remote effect of the atmospheric forcing over the entire Mediterranean basin, which was not included in IBI and GLOBAL systems”. I think the last part of the sentence is not entirely correct since the GLOBAL model represents the Mediterranean Sea and at least considers the barotropic effect of the wind forcing (not clear if it also considers the air pressure effect). IBI also considers the daily barotropic atmospheric forcing driven by the wind, being nested in GLOBAL, and partially the inverse barometric effect over the (Western) Mediterranean. Please consider reformulating the mentioned statements.
- Page 7: I suggest to specifically mention that the lateral boundaries of the IBI model are both the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
- Page 8, line 27: In the two lateral open boundaries (west - the Atlantic Ocean, east - the Western Mediterranean Sea) ...
- Page 21. line 37: This coastal ...
- Page 24, line 9: I suggest to include the web address of the mentioned Inmerse H2020 project.
- Figure 2: Remove “Spectral nudging on” and “Spectral nudging off” from panels b and d since the GLOBAL model does not have nudging.
- Figure 12: For better readability, consider using lines instead of points in panel b.

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (14 Jun 2019) by Ananda Pascual

AR by Pablo Lorente Jimenez on behalf of the Authors (19 Jun 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (25 Jun 2019) by Ananda Pascual

AR by Pablo Lorente Jimenez on behalf of the Authors (26 Jun 2019) Manuscript