El Nĩo Southern Oscillation and vegetation dynamics as predictors of dengue fever cases in Costa Rica

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Fuller, D O ^a   Troyo, A ^b   Beier, J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; NICKEL; SPECTROMETERS; VEGETATION;

DENGUE HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; NON-LINEAR LEAST SQUARES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 67650109985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/1/014011     Document Type: Article

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