Residual malaria in Jazan region, southwestern Saudi Arabia: the situation, challenges and climatic drivers of autochthonous malaria

Table 3 Pearson’s correlation coefficients of lagged climatic variables and autochthonous malaria cases reported in Jazan region between 2010 and 2017

	Maximum temperature	Minimum temperature	Average temperature	Relative humidity	Aggregate rainfall	Atmospheric pressure	Wind speed	No. of sandstorm events	No. of dust haze events
Unlagged	− 0.387^**	− 0.477^**	− 0.492^**	0.420^**	− 0.157	0.281^**	− 0.171	− 0.257^*	− 0.070
1-month lag	− 0.403^**	− 0.492^**	− 0.458^**	0.422^**	− 0.138	0.320^**	− 0.318^**	− 0.224^*	− 0.213^*
2-month lag	− 0.331^**	− 0.361^**	− 0.339^**	0.377^**	0.167	0.305^**	− 0.227^*	− 0.164	− 0.297^**
3-month lag	− 0.090	− 0.162	− 0.071	0.238^*	0.196	0.151	− 0.270^**	0.115	− 0.256^*
4-month lag	0.126	0.072	0.142	0.130	0.017	− 0.014	− 0.246^*	0.184	− 0.162

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