HVAC loads split into two components, and sensible heat is the one a thermometer sees: the heat that changes air temperature, gathered from the envelope, solar gain through glazing, lighting, equipment, and the people in the space. Its counterpart, latent load, is the moisture that must be removed. Load calculations per ASHRAE Manual J (MJ8), EN 12831, and CIBSE Guide A carry the two separately, because equipment must be matched to both — the sensible heat ratio, SHR = Q_sensible / Q_total, expresses what fraction of the total cooling job is temperature change.
At the cooling coil the split becomes arithmetic on the air stream. Sensible cooling is the dry-air mass flow times the moist-air specific heat times the dry-bulb drop — Q_sensible = ṁ_da × (1.006 + 1.86·W) × (T_in − T_out) — while the total comes from the enthalpy drop across the coil, and the latent part is the remainder. A coil taking 1.0 m³/s of air from 25 °C / 50% RH down to 13 °C does 14.33 kW of sensible work out of 18.70 kW total, an SHR of 0.766: roughly three-quarters of that coil’s effort changes temperature, and the rest condenses water.