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Mostly heat loss from pavement surfaces into water runoff. For example, an article says that during a rain event the balance on the pavement is change in energy = Rsolar net + Rlong net + Convection to water + Evaporation + Sensible heat + ground conduction generally, R solar and ground...

I am curious. Maybe I don't understand something, but many articles I come across perform an energy balance on a solid and on a liquid. **I assume evaporation acts on the remaining liquid and not directly on the substrate. Correct?** They always include heat loss due to evaporation as...