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HARDBACK price:$39.95 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources Display this book on your site! Related Titles Making Climate Forecasts Matter Global Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events:Understanding the Contributions to Infectious Disease Emergence: Workshop Summary Other Related Titles Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease (2001) Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources (CGER) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Acronyms/Abbreviations." Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2001. Please select a format: Page 109   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. Page 109 Acronyms/Abbreviations AGCC Anthropogenic Global Climate Change AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CHAART Center for Health Applications of Aerospace Related Technologies DoD Department of Defense ENSO El Niño/Southern Oscillation FEWS Famine Early Warning System GCM General Circulation Models GIS Geographic Information System HPS Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome IA Integrated Assessment IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change NDVI Normalized Difference Vegetation Index NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NRC National Research Council PAHO Pan American Health Organization RVF Rift Valley Fever SEIR Susceptible, Exposed, Infected, Removed SLE St. Louis Encephalitis USGCRP United States Global Change Research Program WHO World Health Organization WMO World Meteorological Organization Page 109 Front Matter (R1-R14) Executive Summary (1-7) Introduction (8-11) Climate and Infectious Diseases: The Past as Prologue (12-19) Linkages Between Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Diseases (20-44) Climate Influences on Specific Diseases (45-58) Analytical Approaches for Studying Climate/Disease Linkages (59-79) Temporal and Spatial Scaling: An Ecological Perspective (80-85) Towards the Development of Disease Early Warning Systems (86-102) Key Findings and Recommendations (103-108) Acronyms/Abbreviations (109-109) Glossary (110-114) References (115-126) Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members (127-131) Appendix B: Speakers/Presentations at the Committee eetings (132-136) Index (137-146)

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