The eastward winds that overlie the Southern Ocean are able to provide the necessary meansthat allows water at depth to resurface and ensure closure for the meridional overturning circu-lation. Contemporary studies that employ high-resolution simplified or regional ocean modelshave however shown that ocean eddies, oceanic storms that origin from the instability of themean circulation, are able to compensate this wind-driven upwelling. We here present resultsfrom a suite of Southern Ocean wind stress perturbation experiments performed with a globalocean model. Simulations with the model are performed at two different horizontal grid res-olutions, one where eddies are parameterised and one where they are explicitly resolved. It isshown that the eddy-driven circulation is more surface intensified in the high resolution model,and therefore leads to a different total overturning circulation with present day wind stress mag-nitude. The wind stress change experiments both indicate that the parameterised eddy circula-tion understimates the response to a wind stress change, and that the conceptual view of eddycompensation as a competition solely between a wind-driven and an eddy-induced circulationresponse might not hold in a more complex model.