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In this paper, the authors describe the extension of a weighting scheme for multi-model climate projections described in previous works to incorporate single model initial condition large ensembles (SMILE). This weighting scheme uses a performance metric, based on the similarity of a simulation with observations and an independence metric, based on the similarity between simulations. Several properties of two variables (surface air temperature and sea level pressure) in the present climate are used to measure similarity. The authors intend to demonstrate the applicability and the usefulness of this weighting scheme with SMILEs, focusing on surface air temperature change over Northern Europe and the Mediterranean. They also discuss different properties