The drying out of soil moisture following rainfall in a numerical weather prediction model and implications for malaria prediction in West Africa

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1549-1557

  Cui, Xuefeng ^a,b   Parker, Douglas J ^c   Morse, Andrew P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC SURFACE LAYERS; FOREST AREA; HIGH RESOLUTION; LAND SURFACE; LIMITED AREA MODELS; MALARIA PARASITE; MALARIA TRANSMISSION; MODEL RESULTS; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; NIGER; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; RAINFALL EVENT; RAINY DAYS; SCALE MODELS; SINGLE LOCATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEST AFRICA;

CONTROL SURFACES; DEWATERING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; SOIL MOISTURE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; RISK FACTOR; SOIL MOISTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NIAMEY [NIGER]; NIGER [WEST AFRICA];

EID: 74549184059     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222240.1     Document Type: Article

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