Summer Drought Patterns in the Middle-Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River Basin and Their Connections with Atmospheric Circulation before and after 1980

Table 2

The typical drought years of the three summer drought patterns of the MLRYRB.

Pattern	Year
Whole basin-wide drought (WBWD)	1966	1967	1972	1978
Southern drought and northern flood (SDNF)	1963	1965	1991	2003
Southern flood and northern drought (SFND)	1973	1976	1994	2002