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SUBMITTER: Chabot-Couture G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3995884 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chabot-Couture Guillaume G Nigmatulina Karima K Eckhoff Philip P
PloS one 20140422 4
Understanding the environmental conditions of disease transmission is important in the study of vector-borne diseases. Low- and middle-income countries bear a significant portion of the disease burden; but data about weather conditions in those countries can be sparse and difficult to reconstruct. Here, we describe methods to assemble high-resolution gridded time series data sets of air temperature, relative humidity, land temperature, and rainfall for such areas; and we test these methods on th ...[more]