Hydrology of malaria: Model development and application to a Sahelian village

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Bomblies, Arne ^a   Duchemin, Jean Bernard ^b   Eltahir, Elfatih A B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b International Network of the Pasteur Institute   (Niger)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH SCIENCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HYDROLOGY; INSECT CONTROL; LAKES; LANDFORMS; PEST CONTROL; WATER;

A-PRIORI; AGENT-BASED; BREEDING HABITATS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HYDROLOGY MODELS; INTER ANNUALS; INTER-ANNUAL VARIABILITIES; LAND COVERS; MALARIA TRANSMISSIONS; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; POPULATION MODELS; POPULATION VARIABILITIES; REMOTELY SENSED DATUM; TIME-SCALES;

MOSQUITO CONTROL;

ABUNDANCE; BREEDING SITE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGY; MALARIA; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VILLAGE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ERITREA; SAHEL [ERITREA]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE;

EID: 59649110643     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR006917     Document Type: Article

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