Dear colleagues,
I am working in national cartography of dengue and malaria risks in El Salvador using GIS. I am using Hierarchy Analysis Method, and one of the factors that I took into account is annual rainfall. I grouped each subfactor in different weights 1, 2, 3. For example according scientific literature about the relationship of Aedes mosquitoes and temperature: 1- (average temp less than 13 C) - Low mosquitoes activity; 2- (average temp. 13-20 C - moderate activity; 20-33 high activity). I found a lot of references that speak about the importance of rainfall (linked to humidity conditions) about mosquitoes proliferation, however I didn't found any reference about rainfall thresholds. Could you give me some references please? Thank you very much for your kindly attention.
Hello Alexander,
See the link below
http://www.nature.com/emi/journal/v2/n12/full/emi201385a.html
The nearest airport or seaport around you will have meteorological data that you can use. You may collect samples for a month or two to have a trend in relation to rainfall during the rainy or dry season. These values will guide you in predicting or correlating other months or seasons.
Dear Aline Edith Mekeu Noutcha and Ramon Garcia Travanino I have data. I only was asking if already exists a generic relationship among rainfall and Aedes or Anopheles proliferation. I only need a numeric thresholds to group my georreferenced average rainfall data in three groups to elavorate a risk map of proliferation of mosquitoes according rainfall geographic distribution : Low risk, Moderate risk and High risk of mosquitoes proliferation.
Thank you very much for your contribution!
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