Modeling the role of rainfall patterns in seasonal malaria transmission

Climatic Change

Volumn 112, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 673-685

  Bomblies, Arne ^a  

^a University of Vermont   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES MOSQUITOES; BREEDING HABITATS; CLIMATE SHIFTS; CLIMATE VARIABLES; CLIMATIC CHANGES; FIRST-ORDER; HYDROLOGY MODELS; MALARIA TRANSMISSION; MARKOV CHAIN MODELS; MECHANISTIC MODELS; MODELING APPROACH; MOSQUITO POPULATIONS; NIGER; NON-STATIONARITIES; PRECIPITATION EFFECTS; RAINFALL PATTERNS; STANDING WATERS; SURFACE AREA; TEMPORAL PATTERN; TOTAL PRECIPITATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; IODINE; LAKES;

RAIN;

BREEDING SITE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTOMOLOGY; MALARIA; MARKOV CHAIN; MOSQUITO; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SEASONALITY; TIME SERIES;

NIGER [WEST AFRICA]; SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA];

ANOPHELES (GENUS);

EID: 84860919648     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0230-6     Document Type: Article

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