F14 -- Climatic Design Information (I-P)

This chapter and the accompanying data summaries in PDF format provide the climatic design information for 9237 locations in the United States, Canada, and around the world. This is an increase of 1119 stations from the 2017 ASHRAE Handbook—Fundamentals. As in previous editions, the large number of stations made printing the whole tables impractical. Consequently, the complete table of design conditions for only an “example city” appears in this printed chapter to illustrate the table format. However, a subset of the table elements most often used is presented in the Appendix at the end of this chapter for selected stations representing major urban centers in the United States, Canada, and around the world. The complete data tables for all 9237 stations are included with both the PDF version of this chapter and the Handbook Online version.

• Climatic Design Conditions
• Calculating Clear-Sky Solar Radiation
• Transposition to Receiving Surfaces of Various Orientations
• Generating Design-Day Data
• Estimation of Degree-Days
• Representativeness of Data and Sources of Uncertainty
• Other Sources of Climatic Information