Table 2.
Quantitative translation of weather impact on Campylobacter cases in any municipality in the Nordic countries.
Scenario | Number of cases | Additional cases | % change |
---|---|---|---|
Normal | 16 | n.a. | n.a. |
1 °C increase in mean temperature | 18 | 2 | 13 |
1 mm increase in precipitation during the summer | 22 | 6 | 38 |
One additional heat wavea in the summer | 14 | -2 | -13 |
One additional heavy precipitationb event in the summer | 24 | 8 | 50 |
The hypothetical situation where one scenario event takes place in any municipality in a given week, and the resulting number of (additional) Campylobacter cases the following week because of this event.
aHeat wave: three consecutive days with temperatures exceeding 99th percentile of the daily maximum temperature from 2000 to 2015.
bHeavy precipitation: a day with precipitation exceeding 95th percentile of daily precipitation from 2000 to 2015.