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BS EN 60721-2-1:2014 BS 7527-2-1:2014 BSI Standards Publication Classification of environmental conditions Part 2-1: Environmental conditions appearing in nature — Temperature and Humidity BRITISH STANDARD BS EN 60721-2-1:2014 National foreword This British Standard is the UK implementation of EN 60721-2-1:2014 It is identical to IEC 60721-2-1:2013 It supersedes BS 7527-2.1:1991, which will be withdrawn on 19 November 2016 The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee GEL/104, Environmental conditions, classification and testing A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its secretary This publication does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract Users are responsible for its correct application © The British Standards Institution 2014 Published by BSI Standards Limited 2014 ISBN 978 580 72025 ICS 19.040 Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity from legal obligations This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 31 August 2014 Amendments/corrigenda issued since publication Date Text affected BS EN 60721-2-1:2014 EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 60721-2-1 NORME EUROPÉENNE EUROPÄISCHE NORM June 2014 ICS 19.040 Supersedes HD 478.2.1 S1:1989 English Version Classification of environmental conditions - Part 2-1: Environmental conditions appearing in nature - Temperature and Humidity (IEC 60721-2-1:2013) Classification des conditions d'environnement Partie 2-1: Conditions d'environnement présentes dans la nature - Température et humidité (CEI 60721-2-1:2013) Klassifizierung von Umgebungsbedingungen Teil 2-1: Natürliche Umgebungsbedingungen - Temperatur und Feuchte (IEC 60721-2-1:2013) This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2013-07-30 CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to any CENELEC member This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German) A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the same status as the official versions CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique Europäisches Komitee für Elektrotechnische Normung CEN-CENELEC Management Centre: Avenue Marnix 17, B-1000 Brussels © 2014 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members Ref No EN 60721-2-1:2014 E BS EN 60721-2-1:2014 EN 60721-2-1:2014 Foreword The text of document 104/610/FDIS, future edition of IEC 60721-2-1, prepared by IEC/TC 104 "Environmental conditions, classification and methods of test" was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and approved by CENELEC as EN 60721-2-1:2014 The following dates are fixed: • latest date by which the document has to be implemented at national level by publication of an identical national standard or by endorsement (dop) 2014-12-20 • latest date by which the national standards conflicting with the document have to be withdrawn (dow) 2016-07-30 This document supersedes HD 478.2.1 S1:1989 EN 60721-2-1:2014 includes HD 478.2.1 S1:1989: the following significant technical changes with respect to The main changes with respect to HD 478.2.1 S1:1989 are in the definitions of climate types Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights CENELEC [and/or CEN] shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights Endorsement notice The text of the International Standard IEC 60721-2-1:2013 was approved by CENELEC as a European Standard without any modification BS EN 60721-2-1:2014 EN 60721-2-1:2014 Annex ZA (normative) Normative references to international publications with their corresponding European publications The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are indispensable for its application For dated references, only the edition cited applies For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies NOTE When an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant EN/HD applies NOTE Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is available here: www.cenelec.eu Publication Year Title EN/HD IEC 60721-1 1990 Classification of environmental conditions - EN 60721-1 Part 1: Environmental parameters and their severities IEC/TR 62130 - Climatic field data including validation MIL210 Extreme and Percentile Environmental Reference Tables (ExPERT) database (Version 1.0 July 1997) PEARCE, E.A., and SMITH, C.G The Hutchinson World Weather Guide by Helicon Publishing Ltd (ISBN 1-85986-342-6, 2000) KOTTEK, M., GRIESER, J., BECK, C., RUDOLF, B and RUBEL, F World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated: 2006, Meteorol Z., 15, 259-263 1) EN 60721-1 includes A1:1992 to IEC 60721-1 - Year 1) 1995 - BS EN 60721-2-1:2014 EN 60721-2-1:2014 –2– 60721-2-1 © IEC:2013 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Scope Normative references Terms and definitions, abbreviations, quantities and units General information regarding data collection and analysis General validation process Open air climates 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Annex A General Environmental parameters Identification of statistical open-air climates Map of open-air climates (informative) Map of climate classification 10 Bibliography 11 Figure A.1 – Climate classifications 10 Table – Climate classifications Table – Climate classification definitions Table – Classification of climates by extreme daily mean values Table – Classification of climates by annual extreme values Table – Classification of climates by absolute extreme value BS EN 60721-2-1:2014 EN 60721-2-1:2014 60721-2-1 © IEC:2013 –5– INTRODUCTION Electrotechnical products are used in almost all areas of the world under varying climatic conditions and have to meet the stresses imposed by these climatic conditions with the necessary reliability A detailed knowledge of the climatic conditions to which the product will be subjected is necessary in the design stage to ensure that reliability is met Data on open-air temperature and humidity have been collected and statistically processed for many years throughout the world Such data is represented in this part of IEC 60721 In addition to open-air temperature, temperature stresses on a product depend on a number of other environmental parameters, for example solar radiation, air velocity or heating from adjacent equipment The effects of humidity depend on temperature, temperature changes and impurities in the humid air In many cases the extremes of temperature and humidity are of great importance even if they occur for a short time In other cases, where large time constants for heat or water penetration are involved, the mean values of temperature and humidity over a certain period may be more important It has therefore been considered useful to present here both the mean value over many years of the annual extreme values of temperature and humidity, which will occur only for short periods (a few hours), and the mean value over many years of the extreme daily mean values of temperature and humidity, which will occur for longer periods In order to cover cases where rare events need to be taken into account, the absolute extreme temperatures and humidity levels, observed over a period of many years, have also been presented BS EN 60721-2-1:2014 EN 60721-2-1:2014 –6– 60721-2-1 © IEC:2013 CLASSIFICATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS – Part 2-1: Environmental conditions appearing in nature – Temperature and humidity Scope This part of IEC 60721 presents classifications of open-air climates in terms of temperature and humidity It is intended to be used as part of the background material when selecting appropriate temperature and humidity severities for product testing and application The climates cover all areas of the world, excluding the central Antarctic and high altitudes (above 000 m) This presentation may be used as background material when issuing climatic environmental classes for product applications This standard defines a limited number of open-air climate classifications, in terms of temperature and humidity, which represent the conditions most frequently met by products while being transported, stored, installed and used Normative references The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are indispensable for its application For dated references, only the edition cited applies For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies IEC 60721-1:1990, Classification of environmental conditions – Part 1: Environmental parameters and their severities IEC/TR 62130, Climatic field data including validation MIL210 Extreme and Percentile Environmental Reference Tables (ExPERT) database (Version 1.0 July 1997) PEARCE, E.A., and SMITH, C.G., The Hutchinson World Weather Guide by Helicon Publishing Ltd (ISBN 1-85986-342-6, 2000) KOTTEK, M., GRIESER, J., BECK, C., RUDOLF, B and RUBEL, F., World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated: 2006, Meteorol Z., 15, 259-263 Terms and definitions, abbreviations, quantities and units Terms and definitions are defined, in context, throughout the present standard General information regarding data collection and analysis Climatic data was collected and validated in IEC/TR 62130 The two principle data sources were the MIL210 ExPERT and The Hutchinson World Weather Guide BS EN 60721-2-1:2014 EN 60721-2-1:2014 60721-2-1 © IEC:2013 –7– The MIL210 ExPERT database contained daily temperature and humidity data that were collected during 1973–1992 Measurement locations were mainly from airports and major cities worldwide The total number of sites/stations was 289 The uncertainty of measurements was not documented and the data source contained no data about highest temperature with relative humidity (RH) >95 % The Hutchinson World Weather Guide used data provided by the British Meteorological Office The length of the measured period differed from location to location varying from years to 105 years Detailed locations and uncertainty of measurement were not documented in the book and there were no data relating to highest temperature with RH >95 % As stated in IEC 60721-1, other references were used for comparison purposes of both the climatic classes and the map of climatic classes General validation process The high level process for validating the data used to update this standard is given in Figure of IEC 60721-1:1990 The process has three main phases: – identify and collect data; – analyse data and compare to current values; – update data as appropriate As a result of the data collection and analysis, open-air climates have been simplified and revised as shown in Table Table – Climate classifications New classifications Previous IEC 60721-2-1 classes when combined Tropical Warm damp and Warm damp, Equable Arid Mild warm dry and Extremely warm dry Temperate Warm temperate and Warm dry Cold Cold temperate Polar Extremely cold and Cold Further details regarding each climate classification are provided in Table Table – Climate classification definitions Climate classification Definition Tropical Tropical rain climates where the mean temperature of the coldest month exceeds +18 °C Arid Arid climates with rainfall less than 500 mm Temperate Temperate rain climates where the mean temperature of the coldest month is between –3 °C and +18 °C Cold Boreal forest and snow climates Mean temperature of the warmest month exceeding 10 °C and a mean temperature of the coldest month below –3 °C Polar Cold snow climates Mean temperature of the warmest month below 10 °C BS EN 60721-2-1:2014 EN 60721-2-1:2014 –8– 60721-2-1 © IEC:2013 Open air climates 6.1 General The different open-air temperature and humidity conditions of the world are presented by defining a limited number of climate classifications, hereinafter referred to as "open-air climates" For the application of a product in a geographical area, the open-air temperature and humidity can be taken from climatic data for that area This helps ensure that the product is designed for application in this climate 6.2 Environmental parameters For this standard, open-air climates are defined by the air temperature and relative humidity values The relative humidity at a certain temperature is defined as the ratio between the actual vapour pressure and the saturation vapour pressure at the same temperature The absolute air humidity is defined as the mass of water vapour per cubic meter of air The annual extreme value of low temperature normally occurs for a period of approximately 10 h, while the annual extreme value of high temperature normally occurs for approximately h 6.3 Identification of statistical open-air climates The following tables present the climate classifications defined as open-air climates In Table the mean value of the annual extreme daily mean values of temperature and humidity is given for each climate classification Table provides the mean value of annual extreme values of temperature and humidity is given for each classification In Table 5, the absolute extreme value of temperature and humidity is given for each climate classification Table – Classification of climates by extreme daily mean values Climate classification Mean value of the annual extreme daily mean values of temperature and humidity Low temperature °C High temperature °C Highest absolute humidity g × m –3 Tropical 10 40 30 Arid 45 25 Temperate –15 40 25 Cold –25 35 25 Polar –40 25 15 Table – Classification of climates by annual extreme values Climate classification Mean value of the annual extreme values of temperature and humidity Low temperature °C High temperature °C Highest absolute humidity g × m –3 Tropical 45 35 Arid –10 50 30 Temperate –20 40 30 Cold –45 45 25 Polar –50 30 20 BS EN 60721-2-1:2014 EN 60721-2-1:2014 60721-2-1 © IEC:2013 –9– Table – Classification of climates by absolute extreme value Climate classification 6.4 Absolute extreme values of temperature and humidity Low temperature °C High temperature °C Highest absolute humidity g × m –3 Tropical 50 40 Arid –20 55 35 Temperate –30 50 35 Cold –50 45 30 Polar –60 35 25 Map of open-air climates A map of open-air climates in geographical areas of the world is presented in Annex A BS EN 60721-2-1:2014 EN 60721-2-1:2014 – 10 – 60721-2-1 © IEC:2013 Annex A (informative) Map of climate classification This annex presents a map of the open-air climates in geographical areas of the world The map shown as Figure A.1 is used with permission from the authors of The Hutchinson World Weather Guide IEC 1575/13 Figure A.1 – Climate classifications BS EN 60721-2-1:2014 EN 60721-2-1:2014 60721-2-1 © IEC:2013 – 11 – Bibliography BECK, Christoph, GRIESER, Jürgen, KOTTEK, Markus, RUBEL, Franz and RUDOLF, Bruno Characterizing Global Climate Change By Means Of Köppen Climate Classification, 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