Table 1.
Datasets and stations. This table summarizes the available datasets, time periods, the spatial resolution of gridded data, and the coordinates of the different stations.
| Observations | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Datasets | Period | Stations | ||||||||||||
| Malaria cases | 2001–2016 | Dakar 14.73° N, 17.5° W | Diourbel 14.4° N, 16.6° W | Fatick 14.21° N, 16.35° W | Kaolack 14.13° N, 16.07° W | Kolda 14.88° N, 14.08° W | Louga 15.37° N, 16.13° W | Matam 15.65° N, 13.25° W | Saint-Louis 16.05° N, 16.45° W | Tambacounda 13.77° N, 13.68° W | Thies 14.8° N, 17° W | Ziguinchor 12.55° N, 16.27° W | ||
| Meteorological and CHIRPS rainfall | 1981–2010 | |||||||||||||
| Reanalysis Inputs | ||||||||||||||
| Datasets | Period | Grid | ||||||||||||
| 20th Century Reanalysis Project daily averages [56] | 1910–2009 | 2.5° × 2.5° | ||||||||||||
| NCEP [57] | 1960–2013 | 2.5° × 2.5° | ||||||||||||
| ERA40 [58] | 1958–2001 | 2.5° × 2.5° | ||||||||||||
| ERA Interim [59] | 1979–2015 | 1.5° × 1.5° | ||||||||||||
CHIRPS: Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Stations; NCEP: National Centers for Environmental Prediction; ERA: European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecast reanalysis.