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Wyant et al. 2006
Wyant, M.C., Khairoutdinov, M. and Bretherton, C.S. (2006). Climate sensitivity and cloud response of a GCM with a superparameterization. Geophysical Research Letters 33: doi: 10.1029/2005GL025464. issn: 0094-8276.

The climate sensitivity of an atmospheric GCM that uses a cloud-resolving model as a convective superparameterization is analyzed by comparing simulations with specified climatological sea surface temperature (SST) and with the SST increased by 2 K. The model has weaker climate sensitivity than most GCMs, but comparable climate sensitivity to recent aqua-planet simulations of a global cloud-resolving model. The weak sensitivity is primarily due to an increase in low cloud fraction and liquid water in tropical regions of moderate subsidence as well as substantial increases in high-latitude cloud fraction.

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Keywords
Global Change, Global climate models (3337, 4928), Atmospheric Processes, Climate change and variability (1616, 1635, 3309, 4215, 4513), Atmospheric Processes, Clouds and cloud feedbacks
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Geophysical Research Letters
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