I am happy that the majority of reviewer comments have been addressed and responded to with the revised article. However I would ask you to review the following comments:

Given the emphasis on variability and currents in the introduction, and the specific comments from reviewer 2, you should expand the discussion on future work in this area (page 20 line 33--35), particularly as the focus of this paper was not on the verification of the submesoscale or mesoscale dynamics.

I still find the description of the initialisation for AMM7 (page 6, lines 26-31) to be unclear. e.g. please clarify "differ" on line 27.

I believe reviewer 3 was requesting DJF etc. to be defined explicitly on first use, "(December, January, February)".

In your response to reviewer 4 you mention calculations which use a minimum depth of 6m. You could consider mentioning that these were performed, without significant improvements being observed.

Page 19 lines 10-20: I think you should revisit reviewer 4 comments regarding this section, adding further qualifications, or deleting the text as suggested by reviewer 4.

Page 20 lines 1-6: Since you have followed the reviewer 4 suggestion quite closely, please consider adding an appropriate reviewer acknowledgement.

Page 3 line 26: Please clarify "future developments".

Page 12 line 9, page 19 line 16: Avoid the contractions "isn't" and "can't".

I am happy that remaining comments have now been addressed.