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Nicholas B. DeFelice
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
* E-mail: [email protected]
Affiliation: Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3551-6587
Zachary D. Schneider
Roles Data curation, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
Eliza Little
Roles Data curation, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1603-7161
Christopher Barker
Roles Data curation, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Center for Vectorborne Diseases, University of California Davis, Davis, California
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7941-346X
Kevin A. Caillouet
Roles Data curation, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: St. Tammany Parish Mosquito Abatement District, St. Tammany Parish, Slidell, Louisiana, United States of America
Scott R. Campbell
Roles Data curation, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Arthropod-Borne Disease Laboratory, Suffolk County Department of Health Services, Yaphank, New York, United States of America
Dan Damian
Roles Data curation, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Vector Control Division, Maricopa County Environmental Services Department, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Patrick Irwin
Roles Data curation, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Northwest Mosquito Abatement District, Wheeling, Illinois, United States of America
Herff M. P. Jones
Roles Data curation, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Iberia Parish Mosquito Abatement District, Iberia Parish, New Iberia, Louisiana, United States of America
John Townsend
Roles Data curation, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Vector Control Division, Maricopa County Environmental Services Department, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Jeffrey Shaman
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7216-7809Abstract
Ecological and laboratory studies have demonstrated that temperature modulates West Nile virus (WNV) transmission dynamics and spillover infection to humans. Here we explore whether inclusion of temperature forcing in a model depicting WNV transmission improves WNV forecast accuracy...