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Table 1.

Symbols and notations used in the Section “Methodological Overview”

Notation	Meaning
$β$	Effective contact rate (theoretical)
$γ$	Mean recovery rate (theoretical)
AC	Daily active case count
CC	Daily new confirmed case count
CT	Climate type
$C T_{i}$	i-th Climate type
$C T^{r}$	Set of climate types associated with region r
$C T_{i}^{r}$	i-th climate type associated with region r
D	Degree of conceptual overlap
I	Infected fraction of regional population
n	Total number of spatial regions under study
P	Probability distribution corresponding to standard Bayesian network
$P^{†}$	Probability distribution corresponding to semantic Bayesian network
$R$	Number of roots in the semantic network
R	Recovered/removed fraction of regional population
RC	Daily new recovered case count
$r e g S R (r, C T_{i})$	Regional semantic relatedness between data collected from region r and that collected from that from regions having climate type $C T_{i}$
$r e g s A v g_{i}$	Semantically averaged case count relevant to climate type $C T_{i}$ over all the considered region r
S	Susceptible fraction of regional population
$S R (C T_{i}, C T_{j})$	Semantic relatedness between climate type $C T_{i}$ and $C T_{j}$
$s A v g_{i}$	Semantically averaged case count (new confirmed or new recovered case) relevant to climate type $C T_{i}$
sw	Semantic weight
$s w_{rq}$	Semantic weight between region r and q
$x_{r}$	COVID case count (new confirmed or new recovered case) per million individual associated with region r