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The 25 pages that link to Earth's energy budget, each with the reason it gives.

• Climate changeRelated: Climate shifts when this planetary energy balance changes.

• Greenhouse effectRelated: The greenhouse effect changes how much outgoing energy escapes to space.

• Climate modelNarrower topic: This balance is the central accounting constraint behind simulated global temperature change.

• Radiative forcingNarrower topic: Radiative forcing measures a perturbation to this planetary balance.

• AlbedoNarrower topic: Planetary albedo sets the reflected portion of incoming sunlight in this global accounting.

• EarthRelated: This balance sets the planet’s long-term temperature and responds to greenhouse gases.

• Ice–albedo feedbackNarrower topic: Changes in absorbed sunlight alter this planetary balance.

• ClimateRelated: This balance sets the planetary conditions within which climate patterns form.

• Cloud feedbackRelated: Cloud feedback changes the incoming and outgoing radiation terms in this balance.

• Earth system scienceRelated: Energy exchange links atmospheric, oceanic, and surface processes.

• Climate modelingRelated: A sustained imbalance drives the warming or cooling that models simulate.

• Ocean warmingNarrower topic: Greenhouse gases disrupt this balance, adding excess energy that the oceans absorb.

• Climate scienceRelated: Its changing balance drives global warming and shapes climate variability.

• Solar radiationRelated: Incoming solar radiation is the main energy input in this planetary balance.

• ClimatologyRelated: Changes in this balance drive global warming and other shifts in climate.

• Planetary equilibrium temperatureBroader topic: Earth provides the familiar case for translating the balance principle into an estimated temperature.

• Earth scienceRelated: This balance helps determine global temperature and climate.

• Radiative equilibriumBroader topic: Its global mean balance is a planetary example of radiative equilibrium.

• Climate systemRelated: Its imbalance drives changes in the climate system’s temperature.

• SunlightRelated: Absorbed sunlight is the main energy input in this planetary balance.

• Climate change feedbacksRelated: Feedbacks alter the balance between incoming and outgoing energy.

• Outgoing longwave radiationNarrower topic: Outgoing longwave radiation is the planet’s principal route for returning absorbed energy to space.

• Stefan–Boltzmann constantRelated: Outgoing thermal radiation is commonly approximated using the Stefan–Boltzmann relation.

• Cloud (meteorology)Related: Clouds reflect sunlight and absorb and emit infrared radiation.

• Mikhail BudykoNarrower topic: Budyko’s climate framework began with accounting for incoming and outgoing planetary energy.