Table 1.

Summary of potential explanatory variables

Variables	Description	Properties
$f_l^i$	occupation fraction of land-use group l in cell i (%)	spatially-explicit, time-invariant
BuiltUp	urban area
Coconut	coconut cultivation land
Homesteads	homesteads and garden
Paddy	rice cultivation land
Sea	ocean
StWtr	standing water
FlwWtr	flowing water
$c_{t,d_c}$	weekly value of climate variable in week t with a lag of dc	time-varying, spatially -invariant
Tavg	weekly averaged daily mean temperature
Tmax	weekly averaged maximum daily temperature
Tmin	weekly averaged minimum daily temperature
DTR	weekly averaged diurnal temperature range
Pre	weekly total precipitation
RD	weekly number of raining days
RH	weekly averaged daily relative humidity
Pi	population in cell i	spatially -explicit, time-invariant
$V_{t-u}^i$	number of trips made to cell i in week t-u	spatially -explicit, time-varying
$N_{t-w}^i$	number of patients admitted to hospital who live in cell i in week t-w	spatially -explicit, time-varying

Note: t, u, and w in weeks, d_c in days. For notation, variable superscripts in Table 1 denote spatial indices and subscripts denote time indices