Dear Authors,

Thank you for this revised version and your responses to the reviewer. The paper is almost ready for publication now. However, it needs some minor Editing. I list a few corrections below.

Thank you for submitting in GMD

Best regards,

Olivier Marti
GMD Topical Editor

Line 84 states that "the time step for IFS is 60 minutes". Is it the full time step of IFS, i.e. the time step at which all processes are solved, including the radiation scheme, the soil model, river routing, etc... ?
Same question for NEMO. 45 minutes is the time step generally used in ORCA1L75 for the dynamics (OPA). The ice model (LIM) has generally a longer time step, often synchronised with the coupling ones. That means a 3h time step for NEMO as a whole, with sub time stepping for the ocean dynamics. Please clarify this for both models.

Line 84: "for NEMO is 45 minutes" -> "for NEMO it is 45 minutes"

SST, DJF, MAM, JJA, SON, MJJAS and NDJFM should be explicated as the first appearance.
Add a white space after semicolon in the lists of citations.
Remove a few double spaces remaining in the text.

Line 110: "two types of the year" -> "two type of year" (??)

Line 149: W/m2 -> W m2 to be consistent with the rest of the text

Line 437: (Hind et al., 2016) -> Hind et al.(2016)

Fig.9: Meridioanl -> Meridional / Zoanl -> Zonal

Fig. 10: bottom left panel 10^6km^2 -> 10^6 km^2 (add a space)

Thank you for this final version.

And thank you for publishing in GMD

Olivier Marti
GMD Topical editor