Research Article

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

Table 1

The correlation coefficients of the first two principal components with the summer PDO and AMO for the different periods.

PDOAMO
1961–20131961–19791980–20131961–20131961–19791980–2013

PC1−0.27−0.09−0.16−0.34−0.33−0.12
PC2−0.08−0.310.040.04−0.140.10

90% confidence level; 95% confidence level.