I am trying to clearly express in one or two sentences how increased evapotranspiration could cool a region. The audience is educated but non-scientific.
Is it accurate to say that the water vapor has removed latent heat? Is there a more clear explanation?
Answer
One or two sentences?
Heat is transferred to water, which therefore evaporizes, taking away the heat with it.
Latent heat is the amount of heat necessary to trigger a phase transition in a substance, and is not spent to increase or decrease the substance's temperature. So it is incorrect to say tha the water has removed the latent heate. I'd rather say that water removed a heat quantity equal to its latent heat.
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