We study the global well-posedness of a two-dimensional Boussinesq system which couples the incompressible Euler equation for the velocity and a transport equation with fractional diffusion of type |D|α for the temperature. We prove that for α>1, there exists a unique global solution for initial data with critical regularities.

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