This results in a cooling effect (
called evaporative cooling) that helps to maintain body temperature and cools the body down when it gets too hot.
Not exact matches
They based their results on a mechanism
called «
evaporative buffering,» in which excess warming at the equator causes increased evaporation,
cooling the planet in the same way that perspiration
cools a marathon runner.
H2O — said to be the most potent «greenhouse gas» — doesn't cause warming in the open atmosphere; rather it drops the temperature of surface level air; it acts like an
evaporative cooler (commonly
called a «swamp
cooler») rather than a greenhouse.