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ArticleEnvironmental science and pollution research international2022

Impact of climate indicators on the COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia.

Mohammad A M Abdel-Aal, Abdelrahman E E Eltoukhy, Mohammad A Nabhan, Mohammad M AlDurgam

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Article in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Mohammad A M Abdel-AalIndustrial and Systems Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, 5063, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia.
Abdelrahman E E EltoukhyDepartment of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, SAR, China. abdelrahman.eltoukhy@polyu.edu.hk.
Mohammad A NabhanIndustrial and Systems Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, 5063, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammad M AlDurgamIndustrial and Systems Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, 5063, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia.
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals · SAHong Kong Polytechnic University · HK

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has left a major impact on daily lifestyle and human activities. Many recent studies confirmed that the COVID-19 pandemic has human-to-human transmissibility. Additional studies claimed that other factors affect the viability, transmissibility, and propagation range of COVID-19. The effect of weather factors on the spread of COVID-19 has gained much attention among researchers. The current study investigates the relationship between climate indicators and daily detected COVID-19 cases in Saudi Arabia, focusing on the top five cities with confirmed cases. The examined climate indicators were temperature (°F), dew point (°F), humidity (%), wind speed (mph), and pressure (Hg). Using data from Spring 2020 and 2021, we conducted spatio-temporal correlation, regression, and time series analyses. The results provide preliminary evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic spread in most of the considered cities is significantly correlated with temperature (positive correlation) and pressure (negative correlation). The discrepancies in the results from different cites addressed in this study suggest that non-meteorological factors need to be explored in conjunction with weather attributes in a sufficiently long-term analysis to provide meaningful policy measures for the future.

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COVID-19HumansHumidityPandemicsSARS-CoV-2Saudi ArabiaTemperatureClimate indicatorsCoronavirusCorrelation testsCOVID-19Dew pointHumidityPressureTemperatureWind speed

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PMID34735701
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