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Miura et al. 2005
Miura, H., Tomita, H., Nasuno, T., Iga, S., Satoh, M. and Matsuno, T. (2005). A climate sensitivity test using a global cloud resolving model under an aqua planet condition. Geophysical Research Letters 32: doi: 10.1029/2005GL023672. issn: 0094-8276.

A global Cloud Resolving Model (CRM) is used in a climate sensitivity test for an aqua planet in this first attempt to evaluate climate sensitivity without cumulus parameterizations. Results from a control experiment and an experiment with global sea surface temperature (SST) warmer by 2 K are examined. Notable features in the simulation with warmer SST include a wider region of active convection, a weaker Hadley circulation, mid-tropospheric moistening in the subtropics, and more clouds in the extratropics. Negative feedback from short-wave radiation reduces the climate sensitivity parameter compared to a result in a more conventional model with a cumulus parameterization.

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Keywords
Atmospheric Processes, Global climate models (1626, 4928), Atmospheric Processes, Clouds and cloud feedbacks, Atmospheric Processes, Climatology (1616, 1620, 3305, 4215, 8408)
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Geophysical Research Letters
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