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List of Tables
Preface
1 Overview of the Lancang-Mekong River Basin
1.1 General in formation
1.2 Physical Geography
1.2.1 Topography
1.2.2 Meteorology
1.2.3 Hydrology
1.3 Socio-economy
1.3.1 Administrative Division
1.3.2 Population Distribution
1.3.3 Land Utilization
1.3.4 Irrigation
1.3.5 Economy
2 Data and methodology
2.1 Drought and its impacts
2.2 Drought metrics and evaluation
2.2.1 Drought metrics
2.2.2 Drought identification and evaluation
2.3 Data
3 Historical drought
3.1 Evolution of drought
3.2 2019 drought
3.3 Three-dimension identification of historical drought
4 Future climate
4.1 Evolution trend
4.2 Conclusions
5 Future meteorological drought
5.1 Comparison of GCM simulated data with observed data
5.2 Evolution trend
5.2.1 Results of SPI
5.2.2 Results of SPEI
5.2.3 Seasonal distribution
5.3 Meteorological drought events
5.4 Conclusions
6 Future agricultural drought
6.1 Evolution trend
6.2 Conclusions
7 Future hydrological drought
7.1 Evolution trend
7.2 Conclusions
8 Adaptation measures
8.1 Challenges
8.2 An operational drought information platform
8.3 Suggested measures
8.4 Regional analysis
References