The focus in this paper is to understand the likely influence of climate change on vector production and malaria transmission in India. A set of transmission windows typical to India have been developed, in terms of different temperature ranges for a particular range of relative humidity, by analysing the present climate trends and corresponding malaria incidences. Using these transmission wind...

The conventional point-source discharge permitting approach, referred to as the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), is based on either a regulatory low flow (hydrologic, biological, or seasonal) criterion or on a hydrograph controlled release (HCR) approach. Regulatory low flows are often estimated using empirical equations because of the lack of historical flow data. Overe...

A K-nearest neighbor (K-nn) re-sampling scheme is presented that simulates daily weather variables, and consequently seasonal climate and spatial and temporal dependencies, at multiple stations in a given region. A strategy is introduced that uses the K-nn algorithm to produce alternative climate data-sets conditioned upon hypothetical climate scenarios – e.g. warmer-drier springs, warmer-wette...

[1] A K-nearest neighbor (K-nn) resampling scheme is presented that simulates daily weather variables, and consequently seasonal climate and spatial and temporal dependencies, at multiple stations in a given region. A strategy is introduced that uses the K-nn algorithm to produce alternative climate data sets conditioned upon hypothetical climate scenarios, e.g., warmer-drier springs, warmer-we...

OBJECTIVE To review the scientific evidence about the impact of climate change and socio-environmental factors on dengue transmission, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. METHODS Search of the published literature on PubMed, ISI web of Knowledge and Google Scholar. Articles were included if an association between climate or socio-environmental factors and dengue transmission was assessed...

This paper attempts to compare the concepts and metrics related to vulnerability notion as used in the poverty literature with those in the filed of climate change. Such comparison could shed light on the understanding of the perceived and real differences between the two fields and also help to identify possible policy synergies between the climate change and poverty communities. The analysis ...

[1] Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is a criteria pollutant. Its sensitivity to meteorology implies its distribution will likely change with climate shifts. Limited availability of global climate models with full chemistry complicates efforts to assess rigorously the uncertainties in the PM2.5 response to a warming climate. We evaluate the potential for PM2.5 distributions in a chemistry-climat...

Should physicians take action in the political realm to address climate change? There are many historical examples of physician advocacy in the political sphere, both individually and as a collective, and many have argued that it is important for health professionals to advocate on a variety of issues. But which criteria should be used to determine when and how health professionals should take ...