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Weather Data Viewer Version 4.0 displays climatic design conditions, frequency distributions, joint frequency tables, and summary statistics for dry-bulb, wet-bulb, and dew-point temperatures plus wind speed and direction for all 5,564 locations, both international and domestic listed in Chapter 14, Climatic Design Information, of the 2009 ASHRAE Handbook"Fundamentals. The viewer can display the tables in numeric form or plot the frequency distribution, the cumulative distribution function, and mean coincident functions. This CD-ROM also provides additional information such as frequency matrices of dry-bulb temperature and time of day (also known as temperature bin data), the time zone and daylight-saving time of the stations, and the months and years used in calculating the design conditions.The data is available in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and can also be extracted into text format for batch processing using the included tblxpand utility. Version 4.0 also provides a new feature"the capability to automatically locate the stations on Google Maps with the included StationFinder utility.