Estimating air temperature and its influence on malaria transmission across Africa.

ABSTRACT: Malaria transmission is strongly influenced by climatic conditions which determine the abundance and seasonal dynamics of the Anopheles vector. In particular, water temperature influences larval development rates whereas air temperature determines adult longevity as well as the rate of parasite development within the adult mosquito. Although data on land surface temperature exist at a spatial resolution of approximately 1 km globally with four time steps per day, comparable data are not currently available for air temperature. In order to address this gap and demonstrate the importance of using the right type of temperature data, we fitted simple models of the relationship between land-surface and air temperature at lower resolution to obtain a high resolution estimate of air temperature a

SUBMITTER: Garske T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3577915 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature