For setting the value of the 'Climatic background' condition factor CB a pure qualitative approach was applied as for many events only limited hydro-meteorological information is available.
The classification of seismically induced landslides and the related 'event sizes' is based on five main factors: 'Intensity', 'Fault factor', 'Topographic energy', 'Climatic background conditions', 'Lithological factor'.
The weight of three of the main contributing factors is directly determined from available information: Topographic energy, Climatic background, and Lithological factor.
The maximum weight of the 'Climatic background' is only 2 and thus maybe considered as 'less' important than the 'Fault factor' with a maximum weight of 6.
The classification is based on five factors considering the (I) shaking intensity, (II) the combined fault location-type and length characteristics, the (III) general topographic context (average slope steepness and height for a region), (IV) climatic background and temporary hydro-meteorological conditions as well as (V) regional and local lithological properties.
Those factors are estimated from readily available information, such as earthquake magnitude and hypocentral depth, time of the event, or they had to be compiled from generally more rare data on fault characteristics, regional surface morphology, antecedent rainfall or general climatic background of the affected region and the regional geology.
It is equally clear, however, that although these changes may have provided a generally more permissive climatic background for TBEv transmission, they are too similar throughout the Baltic countries to account for the highly heterogeneous patterns of change in TBE incidence since the early 1990s.
Our objective was to assess the utility of the heat shock stress response in ecological comparisons of geographically distant subpopulations of a species complex with different climatic background.
Kolkata is a densely populated city with a variable socioeconomic and climatic background and is frequently affected by outbreaks of diarrheal disease; hence that is why the area was chosen for disease transmission studies [ 6].
However, due to the lack of detailed information on agronomic and pedo-climatic background conditions in most of the available literature, it is currently not possible to quantify the relative contribution of genetic and environmental/agronomic sources of variation.
