Real-time projections of cholera outbreaks through data assimilation and rainfall forecasting

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 108, Issue , 2017, Pages 345-356

  Pasetto, Damiano ^a   Finger, Flavio ^a   Rinaldo, Andrea ^a,b   Bertuzzo, Enrico ^a,c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cholera; Climate forecast system; Data assimilation; Epidemiological model; Rainfall forecast

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DISEASES; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; MARKOV PROCESSES; RAIN; RISK MANAGEMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CHOLERA; CLIMATE FORECASTS; DATA ASSIMILATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MODELING; RAINFALL FORECASTS;

FORECASTING;

CALIBRATION; CHOLERA; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; REAL TIME;

HAITI; HISPANIOLA;

EID: 85006056338     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2016.10.004     Document Type: Article

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