Improving flood and drought management in transboundary Upper Jhelum Basin-South Asia.

The two contrasting extremes of the hydrological spectrum have substantial and far-reaching impacts on a wide range of sectors including water resources, agriculture and food security, energy, infrastructure, and ecosystem. The compounding factors of climate change, burgeoning population, and rapid economic development create unprecedented challenges in devising effective and sustainable strategies to cope with these natural disasters and minimize their devastating impacts. This study identifies the geographical areas that are prone to meteorological wet-dry extreme events, as drivers of hydrologic floods and droughts, and their temporal compounding in the transboundary Upper Jhelum Basin-South Asia.