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Introduction to climate dynamics and climate modelling
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4. The response of the climate system to a perturbation
4.1 Climate forcing and climate response
4.1.1 Notion of radiative forcing
4.1.2 Major radiative forcings
4.1.2.1 Greenhouse gases
4.1.2.2 Aerosols
4.1.2.3 Land use changes
4.1.2.4 Solar and volcanic forcings
4.1.3 Equilibrium response of the climate system - a definition of feedback
4.1.4 Transient response of the climate system
4.2 Direct physical feedbacks
4.2.1 Water vapour feedback and lapse rate feedback
4.2.2 Cloud feedback
4.2.3 Cryospheric feedbacks
4.3 Geochemical, biogeochemical and biogeophysical feedbacks
4.3.1 The carbonate compensation
4.3.2 Interaction between plate tectonics, climate and the carbon cycle
4.3.3 Interactions between climate and the terrestrial biosphere
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