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\section{Discussion and conclusions}  [Summary statement about Southern Ocean cloud biases, and difficulty of using cloud regimes for model evaluation.]  \begin{itemize}  \item We have demonstrated a hybrid method for identifying cloud regimes which include features from both observed and simulated clouds. We can evaluate the simulated representation of these cloud regimes against those observed.  \item The observed cloud regimes resemble those derived for the Southern Ocean in \citep[e.g.][]{Haynes_2011, Mason_2014}, including a deeper optically-thick mid-topped cloud regime distinguished in \citet{Mason_2014}.  \item We show that the model produces optically-thinner versions of observed cloud regimes at low- through to mid-levels, and that these compensating cloud regimes occur in the parts of the Southern Ocean and the composite cyclone expected of their observed optically-thicker counterparts.  \end{itemize}