1. Climate effects on the COVID-19 outbreak: a comparative analysis between the UAE and Switzerland
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Ali Sadeghi, Mohammad Reza Mansouri Daneshvar, Majid Ebrahimi, and A. Mahmoudzadeh
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2019-20 coronavirus outbreak ,COVID-19 outbreak ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,United Arab Emirates ,Climatic factors ,010501 environmental sciences ,01 natural sciences ,Climate effects ,Correlation test ,Temperate climate ,Ecosystem ,Computers in Earth Sciences ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,General Environmental Science ,Climatology ,Outbreak ,COVID-19 ,Arid ,Geography ,Original Article ,Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty ,General Agricultural and Biological Sciences ,Switzerland - Abstract
The main aim of the present study is to disclose the similarities or differences of the climate effects on the COVID-19 outbreak in two countries, which have different climatic conditions. Using the correlation modeling, the results revealed that some climatic factors, such as the ULR, temperature, and CH4 in the UAE and aerosol index and NO2 in Switzerland have positive lagged correlations with the outburst of COVID-19 by intensifying role within - 9, - 7, and - 2 days. The mitigating role was also observed for ozone/solar radiation and temperature/long-wave radiation in the UAE and Switzerland, respectively. The initial hypotheses of the research have confirmed the correlations between new cases of COVID-19 and ULR and aerosol indices in the UAE and Switzerland. However, the main finding revealed that the climate effects on the COVID-19 outbreak show different roles in the different countries, locating in dissimilar climatic zones. Accordingly, the COVID-19 can be intensified by increases of the ULR and temperature in an arid region, while it can be exactly mitigated by increases of these factors in a temperate area. This finding may be useful for future researches for identifying the essential influencing factors for the mitigating COVID-19 outbreak. more...
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- 2021