| AMMA | African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis |
| b | mosquito-to-human transmission efficiency, i.e. the roportion of sporozoite-positive mosquito bites which infect susceptible people |
| c | human-to-mosquito transmission efficiency, i.e. the proportion of mosquito bites on infectious humans which infect susceptible mosquitoes |
| CLINO | CLImatological NOrmals for the period 1961 to 1990 |
| CMC | Clinical Malaria Cases |
| CRU | Climatic Research Unit |
| CSPR | CircumSporozoite Protein Rate |
| CSPRa | annual mean circumsporozoite protein rate |
| DDT | Dichlor-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane |
| Dg | degree days of the gonotrophic cycle |
| DgH | Dg regarding humid conditions |
| DgL | Dg regarding dry conditions |
| DMN | National Weather Service (in French: "Direction de la Météorologie Nationale") |
| DWD | German Weather Service (in German: "Deutscher WetterDienst") |
| ECHAM | European Centre HAmburg Model |
| ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts |
| EGG | number of produced mosquito eggs |
| EIR | Entomological Inoculation Rate |
| EIRd | daily entomological inoculation rate |
| EIRm | monthly entomological inoculation rate |
| EIRa | annual entomological inoculation rate |
| FEVPREV | prevalence of fever |
| ERA40 | ECMWF 40 year ReAnalysis |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization |
| GAME | GAMEtocyte prevalence |
| GAMEa | annual averaged gametocyte prevalence |
| GAMEmin,a | annual minimum gametocyte prevalence |
| GAMEmax,a | annual maximum gametocyte prevalence |
| GCM | General Circulation Model |
| GF | gametocyte fraction |
| GHCN | Global Historical Climatology Network |
| GLCC | Global Land Cover Characteristics |
| GSOD | Global Surface Summary of Day |
| GTOPO30 | Global TOPOgraphic Data with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds |
| HadCM2 | Hadley Centre Coupled Model, version 2 |
| HadCM3 | Hadley Centre Coupled Model, version 3 |
| HBI | Human Blood Index |
| HBR | Human Biting Rate |
| HIA | Human Infectious Age |
| INC | INCidence |
| IRD | Institute for Research and Development (in French: "Institut de Recherche pour le Développement") |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| IRDERA | IRD and ERA40 |
| KNMI | Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (in Dutch: "Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut") |
| LMM | Liverpool Malaria Model |
| MALD | MALaria Deaths |
| MARA | mapping MAlaria Risk in Africa project |
| MCDW | Monthly Climatic Data of the World |
| MDM | MARA Distribution Model |
| MEM | Malaria Equilibrium Model |
| MEWS | Malaria Early Warning Systems |
| MOSQ | number of adult MOSQuitoes |
| MOSQDIST | MOSQuito DISTribution |
| MPI-OM | Max-Planck-Institute Ocean Model |
| MRR | mosquito Mark-Release-Recapture technique |
| MSM | MARA Seasonality Model |
| MMA | mosquito mature age |
| MT | mosquito trickle |
| NDVI | Normalised Difference Vegetation Index |
| NGO | Non-Governmental Organisation |
| NOAA | National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration |
| pd | daily survival probability of female mosquitoes |
| pd-scheme | mosquito survival scheme |
| PR | Parasite Ratio/PRevalence |
| PRa | annual mean parasite ratio/prevalence |
| PRm | monthly mean parasite ratio/prevalence |
| PRmin,a | annual minimum parasite ratio/prevalence |
| PRmax,a | annual maximum parasite ratio/prevalence |
| PREC/L | Precipitation REConstruction over Land |
| REMO | REgional MOdel |
| RBM | Roll Back Malaria |
| r | human recovery rate |
| R0 | basic Reproduction number of malaria |
| RH | Relative Humidity |
| RHT | Rainfall Humidity Threshold, i.e. the 10-day accumulated precipitation amount in mm |
| RR | precipitation |
| RRm | monthly precipitation amount |
| RRa | annual precipitation amount |
| RR• | rainfall laying multiplier |
| RRΣ10d | decadal precipitation amount, i.e. the 10 day accumulated precipitation |
| RR3m | 3-month moving averaged monthly precipitation (the two preceding and the actual month are used) |
| SAR | Ratio between Sexual and Asexual parasite prevalence, i.e. the proportion of malaria parasite positive humans that are gametocytaemic [%] |
| SARa | annual averaged ratio between sexual and asexual parasite prevalence [%] |
| SARmin,a | annual minimum ratio between sexual and asexual parasite prevalence [%] |
| SARmax,a | annual maximum ratio between sexual and asexual parasite prevalence [%] |
| Seas | length of the malaria season, i.e. the number of months during the year that are suitable for malaria transmission |
| SSeas | start of the malaria season, i.e. the first month of the malaria transmission season |
| ESeas | end of the malaria season, i.e. the last month of the malaria transmission season |
| SRES | Special Report on Emissions Scenarios |
| T | daily mean temperature |
| Tg:temperature threshold of the gonotrophic cycle | |
| TgH | Tg regarding humid conditions |
| TgL | Tg regarding dry conditions |
| Tm | monthly mean temperature |
| Ta | annual mean temperature |
| T3m | 3-month moving average temperature (the calculation includes the two preceding and the actual month) |
| Tmin | minimum temperature |
| Tmin,m | monthly minimum temperature |
| Tmin,a | annual minimum temperature |
| Tmax | maximum temperature |
| Tmax,m | monthly maximum temperature |
| Tmax,a | annual maximum temperature |
| Ts | sporogonic temperature threshold |
| UKMO | United Kingdom Meteorological Office |
| UOV | Upper Ouémé Valley |
| USGS | United States Geological Survey |
| VC | Vectorial Capacity |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| WMO | World Meteorological Organization |
| z | geometrical height |
| σ(X) | standard deviation regarding the variable X |
| ΔX | difference with regard to variable X between different periods or scenarios |
