Dataset: Cholera related to rainfall in Haiti

Name: Cholera and rainfall data collected in Haiti from 2010-2011 (Cholera Disease Dynamics project)
Published: 2016-05-04
Keywords: Cholera, Haiti, Rainfall, biota, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

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Spatial Extent: N:20.0878 E:-71.6133 S:18.021 W:-74.4786

Temporal Extent: 2010-10-17 - 2011-03-20

Project:

Modeling the Effects of Heterogeneity in Water Quality on Cholera Disease Dynamics (Cholera_Disease_Dyn)

Principal Investigator:

Professor Joseph Tien (Ohio State University)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Marisa C Eisenberg (University of Michigan)

Professor David N Fisman (University of Toronto, U of T)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Ms Dicky Allison (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Amber D. York (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

final

Version Date:

2016-05-04

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Cholera and rainfall data collected in Haiti from 2010-2011 (Cholera Disease Dynamics project)

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Description

Data relating cholera and rainfall from four areas in Haiti:

Country-wide cholera case data from Haiti Ministry of Health (MSPP), together with rainfall data from NASA Tropical Measurement Mission.
Cholera case data from Hospital Albert Schweitzer (Haiti), together with rainfall data from NASA Tropical Measurement Mission.
Cholera case data from Port-au-Prince, as reported by the MSPP, together with rainfall data measured from USGS rain gauge in Foret de Pins.
Cholera case data from Internally Displaced Persons camps, together with rainfall data from USGS rain gauge in Morne Gentilehomme.

These data were reported in:
Examining rainfall and cholera dynamics in Haiti using statistical and dynamic modeling approaches.
Eisenberg MC1, Kujbida G, Tuite AR, Fisman DN, Tien JH.
Epidemics. 2013 Dec;5(4):197-207.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436513000431
doi:10.1016/j.epidem.2013.09.004

DMO notes:
Rainfall was made into two columns, one for each unit of measure.
The four received spreadsheets were into one dataset.

Methods & Sampling

Aggregated weekly cholera cases were collected at three levels of granularity: country, city, and internally displaced persons camps (IDP). Rainfall was collected from USGS rain gauges at Morne Gentilehomme, and Foret de Pins. Rainfall was also collected from NASA satellite data over two areas: lat=[18.041N,19.844N] and lon=[74.323W,71.79W], lat=[19.0N,19.2N] and lon=[72.6W,72.4W].

Data Files

File
haiti_cholera.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 4.00 KB) MD5:0afccb2551e54ee11199884bcf4a977f Primary data file for dataset ID 644730

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Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1115881

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Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
brief_desc	short description of data	text	brief_desc
date_start	start date of weekly data collection	yyyymmdd	date_start
days_since_start	number of days since date_start	number	days
rainfall_mm	amount of rain per week from NASA satellite data	millimeters	precip_level
rainfall_in	amount of rain per week from USGS rain gauges	inches	precip_level
cases	number of cholera cases per week	number	no_bcodmo_term

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Dataset: Cholera related to rainfall in Haiti