The use of driving endonuclease genes to suppress mosquito vectors of malaria in temporally variable environments

Malaria Journal

Table 1 A comparison between rainfall data and model simulated data for Bamako, Mali, and Mbita, Kenya

Characteristic	Bamako		Mbita
Characteristic	Observed	Simulated	Observed	Simulated
Mean wet day amount (mm)	4.90	4.65	9.13	9.76
Standard deviation of wet day amount (mm)	4.80	4.61	13.30	13.90
Median amount (mm)	0.00	0.04	3.35	1.82
Prob. (dry tomorrow\|dry today)	0.87	0.90	0.65	0.68
Prob. (wet tomorrow\|wet today)	0.67	0.66	0.85	0.79
Prob. (wet)	0.28	0.23	0.70	0.60
Mean wet spell length (days)	7.65	9.58	2.87	3.10
Mean dry spell length (days)	2.99	2.91	6.61	4.68
Standard deviation of monthly totals (mm)	56.78	50.88	103.14	102.47
Maximum daily precipitation (mm)	110.75	42.26	158.95	222.83
Lag 1 autocorrelation	0.41	0.46	0.29	0.51

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