TABLE OF CONTENTS This chapter provides tables of climatic conditions for locations in the United States, Canada, and around the world. The data for this chapter have been adapted from 2001 ASHRAE Fundamentals Handbook, "Weather Information", which in turn was developed from information available in previous ASHRAE Handbooks and publications.
As is evident from the chapters in this handbook, climatic data is needed for design, sizing, distribution, installation, and marketing of heating, ventilating, air-conditioning, dehumidification and smoke management equipment, as well as for other energy-related processes in residential, agricultural, commercial, and industrial applications. Warm-season temperature and humidity conditions correspond to annual percentile values of 0.4, 1.0, and 2.0. Cold season conditions are based on annual percentiles of 99.6 and 99.0. The use of annual percentiles to define the climatic design conditions ensures that they represent the same probability of occurrence anywhere, regardless of the seasonal distribution of extreme temperature and humidity.
Annual design conditions for the United States appear in Table 19-1, for Canada, in Table 19-2, and for international locations, in Table 19-3.
The information provided in Tables 19-1 to 19-3 in the indicated column is from left to right is:
Name of station
Location (location, longitude, and elevation)
Heating dry-bulb temperature corresponding to 99.6%, and 99%
Cooling dry-bulb and mean wet-bulb temperature corresponding to 0.4%, 1.0%, and 2.0%
Evaporation dry-bulb and mean wet-bulb temperature corresponding to 1.0%, and 2.0%
Dehumidification dewpoint, humidity ratio and mean dry-bulb temperature corresponding to 1.0%, and 2.0%
Mean daily range,...
