The sensible and latent heat fluxes are usually defined as Cp and Lvap/sub , with Lvap applied over liquid water and Lsub over ice.

However, according to the total energy equation for the sum of kinetic (ek), potential (phi = g z) and internal energies (eint), the  surface flux of total energy should be defined as , where "ek" is the kinetic energy, "h=eint+p/rho" the enthalpy and "phi" the potential energy...

So what is the link with Cp and Lvap/sub ?

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