The potential effects of climate change on malaria transmission in Africa using bias-corrected regionalised climate projections and a simple malaria seasonality model

Climatic Change

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 741-754

  Ermert, Volker ^a   Fink, Andreas H ^a   Paeth, Heiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PROJECTION; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE; MALARIA TRANSMISSION; POPULATION NUMBERS; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; REGIONAL CLIMATE PROJECTIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DISEASES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; LAND USE CHANGE; MALARIA; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEASONALITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AFRICA;

EID: 84884700699     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0851-z     Document Type: Article

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