1Section of Epidemiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; 2WorldPop, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; 3Department of Mathematics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Overview

Variables

1. Mean solar radiation in November

Thirty-year mean solar radiation in November for 1970-2000. WorldClim - Global Climate Data, free climate data for ecological modeling and GIS.

A. Metadata

Type Year Unit Resolution Source
Climatic 1970-2000 kJ m-2 day-1 30" (~ 1 km) https://www.worldclim.org/data/worldclim21.html

B. Summary Statistics

Mean Stdandard deviation Minimum Maximum
8021.522 365.6275 7178.948 8712.111

2. Mean solar radiation in February

Thirty-year mean monthly solar radiation in February for 1970-2000. WorldClim - Global Climate Data, free climate data for ecological modeling and GIS.

A. Metadata

Type Year Unit Resolution Source
Climatic 1970-2000 kJ m-2 day-1 30" (~ 1 km) https://www.worldclim.org/data/worldclim21.html

B. Summary Statistics

Mean Stdandard deviation Minimum Maximum
9577.912 350.278 8745.129 10427.3

3. Mean precipitation in May

Thirty-year mean monthly precipitation in May for 1970-2000. WorldClim - Global Climate Data, free climate data for ecological modeling and GIS.

A. Metadata

Type Year Unit Resolution Source
Climatic 1970-2000 mm 30" (~ 1 km) https://www.worldclim.org/data/worldclim21.html

B. Summary Statistics

Mean Stdandard deviation Minimum Maximum
58.2019 13.57296 24.26498 106.1903

4. Pasture area fraction, 2000

Pasture Area fraction in 2000, obtained by combining agricultural inventory data and satellite-derived land cover data. The agricultural inventory data is used to train a land cover classification data set obtained by merging two different satellite-derived products (Boston University’s MODIS-derived land cover product and the GLC2000 data set).

A. Metadata

Type Year Unit Resolution Source
Environmental, land cover 2000 area fraction 5’ (~ 10 km) http://www.earthstat.org/cropland-pasture-area-2000/

B. Summary Statistics

Mean Stdandard deviation Minimum Maximum
0.5142076 0.1598593 0.0074935 0.9326845

5. Elevation, 2000

NASA’s SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) elevation, 2000

A. Metadata

Type Year Unit Resolution Source
Environmental, topographic 2000 m 3" (~ 0.1 km) https://www.worldpop.org/geodata/summary?id=23382

B. Summary Statistics

Mean Stdandard deviation Minimum Maximum
1534.623 624.8174 534.3017 3522.005

6. Slope, 2000

NASA’s SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) slope, 2000. Slope is a measure of change in elevation.

A. Metadata

Type Year Unit Resolution Source
Environmental, topographic 2000 degree 3" (~ 0.1 km) https://www.worldpop.org/geodata/summary?id=23133

B. Summary Statistics

Mean Stdandard deviation Minimum Maximum
7.228466 5.751596 0.2785368 26.26363

7. Distance to major waterways, 2016

Distance to OSM (Open Street Map) major waterways, 2016. The values of the raster are the distances (in kilometres) from the cell centres to the nearest feature.

A. Metadata

Type Year Unit Resolution Source
Environmental, land cover 2016 km 3" (~ 0.1 km) https://www.worldpop.org/geodata/summary?id=17913

B. Summary Statistics

Mean Stdandard deviation Minimum Maximum
2.767573 2.344825 0.1611258 19.08182

8. Distance to built-settlement area edges, 2000

Distance to GHSL (Global Human Settlement Layer) + ESA (European Space Agency) CCI (Climate Change Initiative) LC (Land Cover) built-settlement area edges, 2000. The values of the raster are the distances (in kilometres) from the cell centres to the nearest feature.

A. Metadata

Type Year Unit Resolution Source
Environmental, land cover 2000 km 3" (~ 0.1 km) https://www.worldpop.org/geodata/summary?id=19149

B. Summary Statistics

Mean Stdandard deviation Minimum Maximum
8.437131 11.46861 -0.015636 75.03939

9. Night-time lights, 2015

Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VRIIS) night-time lights, 2015.

A. Metadata

Type Year Unit Resolution Source
Environmental, human-related characteristics 2015 nanoWatts cm-2 sr-1 3" (~ 0.1 km) https://www.worldpop.org/geodata/summary?id=18651

B. Summary Statistics

Mean Stdandard deviation Minimum Maximum
339.7977 563.7038 0 4290.6

10. Distance to urban/artificial area edges, 2000

Distance to ESA (European Space Agency) CCI (Climate Change Initiative) LC (Land Cover) artificial surface edges, 2000. The values of the raster are the distances (in kilometres) from the cell centres to the nearest feature.

A. Metadata

Type Year Unit Resolution Source
Environmental, land cover 2000 km 3" (~ 0.1 km) https://www.worldpop.org/geodata/summary?id=21639

B. Summary Statistics

Mean Stdandard deviation Minimum Maximum
29.38486 29.03254 0.2030513 132.7585

11. Distance to herbaceous area edges, 2000

Distance to ESA (European Space Agency) CCI (Climate Change Initiative) LC (Land Cover) herbaceous area edges. 2000. The values of the raster are the distances (in kilometres) from the cell centres to the nearest feature.

A. Metadata

Type Year Unit Resolution Source
Environmental, land cover 2000 km 3" (~ 0.1 km) https://www.worldpop.org/geodata/summary?id=21639

B. Summary Statistics

Mean Stdandard deviation Minimum Maximum
1.012986 1.192378 -1.346638 6.838798

12. Distance to woody-tree area edges, 2010

Distance to ESA (European Space Agency) CCI (Climate Change Initiative) LC (Land Cover) woody-tree area edges, 2010. The values of the raster are the distances (in kilometres) from the cell centres to the nearest feature.

A. Metadata

Type Year Unit Resolution Source
Environmental, land cover 2010 km 3" (~ 0.1 km) https://www.worldpop.org/geodata/summary?id=21639

B. Summary Statistics

Mean Stdandard deviation Minimum Maximum
7.242729 6.192088 -0.0834906 31.23634

13. Distance to cultivated area edges, 2010

Distance to ESA (European Space Agency) CCI (Climate Change Initiative) LC (Land Cover) cultivated area edges, 2010. The values of the raster are the distances (in kilometres) from the cell centres to the nearest feature.

A. Metadata

Type Year Unit Resolution Source
Environmental, land cover 2010 km 3" (~ 0.1 km) https://www.worldpop.org/geodata/summary?id=21639

B. Summary Statistics

Mean Stdandard deviation Minimum Maximum
-0.1522803 1.030093 -4.082218 7.424358

14. Mean temperature, 2005

Mean surface air temperature 2005 (January - December). NASA Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2) dataset.

A. Metadata

Type Year Unit Resolution Source
Climatic 2005 °C 0.5 x 0.625° (~ 50 km) https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/

B. Summary Statistics

Mean Stdandard deviation Minimum Maximum
8.659737 5.243197 -4.39054 18.1127

15. Mean spring precipitation, 2010

Mean precipitation rate, spring 2010 (March - May). NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) precipitation dataset.

A. Metadata

Type Year Unit Resolution Source
Climatic 2010 mm/hr 0.25° (~ 25 km) https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/

B. Summary Statistics

Mean Stdandard deviation Minimum Maximum
0.0816605 0.0227282 0.0326164 0.1667611

16. Mean winter precipitation, 2005

Mean precipitation rate, winter 2005 (January - March). NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) precipitation dataset.

A. Metadata

Type Year Unit Resolution Source
Climatic 2005 mm/hr 0.25° (~ 25 km) https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/

B. Summary Statistics

Mean Stdandard deviation Minimum Maximum
0.0582941 0.022451 0.0169152 0.2022258

17. Mean spring precipitation, 2000

Mean precipitation rate, spring 2000 (March - May). NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) precipitation dataset.

A. Metadata

Type Year Unit Resolution Source
Climatic 2000 mm/hr 0.25° (~ 25 km) https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/

B. Summary Statistics

Mean Stdandard deviation Minimum Maximum
0.0572299 0.0169864 0.0195298 0.1228122

18. Mean winter precipitation, 2000

Mean precipitation rate, winter 2000 (January - March). NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) precipitation dataset.

A. Metadata

Type Year Unit Resolution Source
Climatic 2000 mm/hr 0.25° (~ 25 km) https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/

B. Summary Statistics

Mean Stdandard deviation Minimum Maximum
0.0335839 0.0093679 0.0106349 0.0524123

19. Mean winter Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, 2010

Mean Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) values 2010 (January- December). NASA MODIS(Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) -terra /Aqua Vegetation Indices.

A. Metadata

Type Year Unit Resolution Source
Environmental, vegetation 2010 NDVI 0.05° (~ 5 km) https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/

B. Summary Statistics

Mean Stdandard deviation Minimum Maximum
0.1135843 0.0793842 -0.0225839 0.2847981

Aknowledegements

We are grateful to the REACH, a joint initiative of IMPACT, ACTED, and the UN Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) for providing us with the Kyrgyz administrative boundaries data. The original data were edited by the authors, as decribed in the Supplementary appendix 2 in the manuscript Paternoster G, Boo B, Wang C, et al. Epidemic cystic and alveolar echinococcosis in Kyrgyzstan: an analysis of national surveillance data. Lancet Glob Health 2020; 8: e603–11.

Versioning

Version 1.0 [current] — 2020-06-15.