Malaria early warnings based on seasonal climate forecasts from multi-model ensembles

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7076, 2006, Pages 576-579

  Thomson, M C ^a   Doblas Reyes, F J ^b   Mason, S J ^a   Hagedorn, R ^b   Connor, S J ^a   Phindela, T ^c   Morse, A P ^d   Palmer, T N ^b  

^a Earth Institute   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of HIV AIDS Prevention and Care   (Botswana)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EPIDEMICS; HEALTH COMMUNITY; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLES; PROBABILISTIC PREDICTION SKILLS;

MALARIA CONTROL;

MEDICINE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; DECISION MAKING; EUROPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRECIPITATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA; SEASON; SKILL;

EID: 31844441325     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04503     Document Type: Article

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