Environmental and meteorological factors linked to malaria transmission around large dams at three ecological settings in Ethiopia

Table 3 Correlation between climatic variables and monthly malaria incidence at the lowland, midland and highland dams in Ethiopia

Climate variable	Pearson’s correlation with mean monthly malaria incidence
Climate variable	Lowland dam	Midland dam	Highland dam
Monthly total precipitation	0.213	0.107	0.042
Monthly total precipitation lagged by 1 month	0.414*	0.268	0.211
Monthly total precipitation by 2 months	0.672*	0.376*	0.282
Monthly mean minimum temperature	0.231	0.184	0.302
Monthly mean minimum temperature lagged by 1 month	0.195	0.342*	0.419*
Monthly mean minimum temperature lagged by 2 months	0.232	0.399*	0.634*
Monthly mean maximum temperature	0.161	0.103	0.147
Monthly mean maximum temperature lagged by 1 month	0.208	0.198	0.364*
Monthly mean maximum temperature lagged by 2 months	0.279	0.233	0.451*

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