Recent weather extremes and impacts on agricultural production and vector-borne disease outbreak patterns

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Anyamba, Assaf ^a,d   Small, Jennifer L ^a,e   Britch, Seth C ^b   Tucker, Compton J ^a   Pak, Edwin W ^a,e   Reynolds, Curt A ^a   Crutchfield, James ^c   Linthicum, Kenneth J ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

^c Washington DC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^e SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AFRICA; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DENGUE; DISEASE CARRIER; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIC; FLOODING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MOSQUITO; MURRAY VALLEY ENCEPHALITIS; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; WEATHER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; CLIMATE; ENCEPHALITIS, ARBOVIRUS; MURRAY VALLEY ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; SPACE FLIGHT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WEST NILE FEVER;

AFRICA, EASTERN; AFRICA, SOUTHERN; AGRICULTURE; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE; DENGUE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DROUGHTS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, MURRAY VALLEY; ENCEPHALITIS, ARBOVIRUS; FLOODS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RUSSIA; SPACECRAFT; UNITED STATES; WEATHER; WEST NILE FEVER;

EID: 84899120553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092538     Document Type: Article

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