GH002
Earth Observations and Environmental Modeling Applications for Understanding, Quantifying, and Predicting the Seasonality (or Not) and Propagation of COVID-19 I eLightning

Monday, 7 December 2020: 10:30-11:30
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Sushel Unninayar, NASA/GSFC & Morgan State University, GESTAR/MSU, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Juli Trtanj, NOAA, Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, DC, United States and Jared Keith Entin, NASA HQ - SMD, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sushel Unninayar, NASA/GSFC & Morgan State University, GESTAR/MSU, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Juli Trtanj, NOAA, Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, DC, United States, Ben Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University, Balitmore, United States, Jared Keith Entin, NASA HQ - SMD, Washington, DC, United States and Sushel Unninayar, NASA/GSFC & Morgan State University, GESTAR/MSU, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Sushel Unninayar, NASA/GSFC & Morgan State University, GESTAR/MSU, Greenbelt, MD, United States
10:30
GH002-01
Global pandemic modeling for international propagation of COVID-19 (692600)
Yunyue Li, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Yanwen Wei, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China and Bei Li, National University of Singapore, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Singapore, Singapore
10:33
GH002-02
A Multimodel Superensemble Approach for Epidemiology with Application to COVID-19 in the United States (766443)
Autumn Rayne Skillin1, Tejas Sathyamurthi2, Kate Duffy1 and Auroop R Ganguly1, (1)Northeastern University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, MA, United States, (2)Northeastern University, Computer Science, Boston, MA, United States
10:36
GH002-04
Deconvolving Social and Climatological Influences on the Propagation Rates of COVID-19 (769389)
Lu Dai1,2, Chaincy Kuo2, Ivan Tereshchenko1, Nicola Falco2, James Bentley Brown2, Ladau Joshua2, Mark Hansen1, Haruko M Wainwright2 and Eoin Brodie2, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
10:39
GH002-05
Effects of Temperature and Humidity on COVID-19 Transmission in Tropical Climate: The Case of Dhaka, Bangladesh (667656)
Sakib Imtiaz, Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship, Dhaka, Bangladesh
10:42
GH002-06
A data-driven analysis linking the influence of anomalous climate conditions on infectious disease pandemics (767280)
Subarna Bhattacharyya, Climformatics, Inc., Fremont, CA, United States, Detelina Ivanova, Climformatics, Inc, La Jolla, CA, United States, Debasish Chattopadhyay, University of Alabama, School of Medicine, Department of Chemistry, Birmingham, AL, United States and Soham Saha, Mission San Jose High School, Fremont, CA, United States
10:45
GH002-07
COVID-19 mortality and environmental factors during wet and dry seasons in West and Southern AFrica (765734)
Greg Jenkins1, Sandra M Freire2, Evelyne N'datchoh Toure3, Demba Niang4, Mamadou simina Drame4, Joao Baptista Huvi5, Toluwalope Ogunro6 and Moctar Camara7, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (2)University of Cabo Verde, Chemistry, Science and Technology, Praia, Cape Verde, (3)UNIVERSITY FELIX HOUPHOUET BOIGNY (UFHB-SSMT), PHYSIC, ABIDJAN, Côte D'ivoire, (4)Laboratory of Atmospheric-Ocean Physics Simeon Fongang, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal, (5)University of Katyavala Bwila, Benguela, Angola, (6)Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria, (7)University of Assane Seck Ziguinchor, Laboratoire d'Océanographie, des Sciences de l'Environnement et du Climat (LOSEC), Ziguinchor, Senegal
10:48
GH002-08
An Environmental Determinant for Transmission of Viral Respiratory Disease (743501)
Yeon-Woo Choi, Alexandre Tuel and Elfatih A B Eltahir, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
10:51
GH002-09
Air pollutants, climatic factor and their interactions influence the transmission of COVID-19 cases: Evidence from a global south megacity (765753)
Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary, Khulna University, Life Science School, Environmental Science Discipline, Khulna, Bangladesh
10:54
GH002-10
Attributing improvement of Air Quality in Colombo to COVID19 curfews distracts focus on Sri Lanka’s major sources of air pollution (771640)
Lareef Zubair, Piushani Ellegala, Ashara Nijamdeen, Tuan Hadgie and Chayana Gunatillake, Foundation for Environment, Climate and Technology, Digana Village, Sri Lanka
10:57
GH002-11
A SARS-CoV-2-Containing Aerosol Settling Time Model Supports the Significant Role of Indirect Airborne Transmission (752614)
Alan Y GU, Yanzhe Zhu, Jing Li and Michael Robert Hoffmann, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
11:00
GH002-12
Existing data suggest that UVA radiation could be the principal contributor to sunlight inactivation of SARS-COV-2 (763127)
Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Fernando Temprano-Coleto, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, François J. Peaudecerf, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Julien R. Landel, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom and Julie A. McMurry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States
11:03
GH002-13
Modeling Spatio-temporal Spread of Epidemic based on Its Triggered Earthquake Analogy (729118)
Bei Li, National University of Singapore, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Singapore, Singapore, Yunyue Li, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore and Yanwen Wei, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
11:06
GH002-15
Climate Factors Effect on the Transmission Rates of COVID-19 and Influenza-like Illnesses: A comparative Study (736236)
Azar Mohammad Abadi, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Environmental, Agricultural & Occupational Health, Omaha, NE, United States, James A Rolfsen, Red Berry Innovations, Inc., Omaha, United States, Elham Rastegari, Creighton University, Omaha, United States and Jesse E Bell, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health, Omaha, NE, United States
11:09
Discussion
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