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. The North-West European Shelf ocean forecasting system has been providingoceanographic products for the European continental shelf seas for more than 15 years. In that time, several different configurations have beenimplemented, updating the model and the data assimilation components. The latest configuration to be put in operation, an eddy-resolving model at 1.5 km (AMM15), replaces the 7 km model (AMM7) that has been used for 8 years to deliver forecast products to the Copernicus Marine EnvironmentMonitoring Service and its precursor projects. This has improved the ability to resolve the mesoscale variability in this area. An overview of this new system and its initial validation is provided in this paper, highlighting the differences with the previous version. Validation of the model with data assimilation is based on the results of 2 years (2016–2017) of trial experiments run with the low- andhigh-resolution systems in their operational configuration. The 1.5 kmsystem has been validated against observations and the low-resolutionsystem, trying to understand the impact of the high resolution on thequality of the products delivered to the users. Although the number ofobservations is a limiting factor, especially for the assessment of modelvariables like currents and salinity, the new system has been proven to bean improvement in resolving fine-scale structures and variability andprovides more accurate information on the major physical variables, liketemperature, salinity, and horizontal currents. AMM15 improvements areevident from the validation against high-resolution observations, availablein some selected areas of the model domain. However, validation at the basin scale and using daily means penalized the high-resolution system and does not reflect its superior performance. This increment in resolution also improves the capabilities to provide marine information closer to the coast even if the coastal processes are not fully resolved by the model.

The impact of a new high-resolution ocean model on the Met Office North-West European Shelf forecasting system