Climate drivers of malaria at its southern fringe in the Americas
Fig 4
Interaction strengths for each causal variable as a function of the cause itself.
(a) Minimum relative humidity with time-lag of 13 weeks has a positive effect on the number of malaria cases in most of the points of the time series, though this causality weakens as humidity increases. (b) Maximum relative humidity with time-lag of 13 weeks had in general a negative effect on cases that is stronger above 85% of humidity. (c) Minimum temperature with no lag tends to affect positively the number of cases, especially above 15°C. (d) Minimum temperature lagged by 22 weeks had the same pattern as minimum relative humidity in (a). (e) Maximum temperature lagged by 5 weeks also had positive effect on cases in most of the time series, with increasing causal strength as maximum temperature raises.