A somewhat archaic term that is typically the outcome of heating a surface without evaporating water from it. Sensible heat per unit mass can be roughly identified with specific enthalpy of unsaturated air, that is, approximately c_pdT, where c_pd is the specific heat of dry air at constant pressure and T is temperature. Sensible heat is often compared with latent heat, which is the difference between the enthalpy of water vapor and that of liquid water.