Abstract:Daily precipitation data of 89 stations in South China from 1969 to 2008,provided by the China National Meteorological Information Center,are used to investigate the spatial and temporal features of the extreme precipitation during the post-flood season (July-September) in South China.Results show that:1)The spatial distributions of the average annual total precipitation amount,heavy precipitation amount,precipitation frequency,heavy precipitation frequency and rainstorm frequency are basically in agreement with that of the extreme precipitation threshold during the post-flood season in South China,with larger values in the south of Guangdong and Guangxi,and the southwest of Fujian.Heavy precipitation amount,precipitation frequency and rainstorm frequency have a great influence on the spatial distribution of the total precipitation.Heavy precipitation amount,heavy precipitation frequency and rainstorm frequency have implications for the temporal variation of total precipitation.2)The regional averaged extreme precipitation of South China during the post-flood season shows an obvious interdecadal change around 1992,and the remarkable increase takes place for the mean values and variance of all the indices except for precipitation frequency,indicating that the drought and flood disasters have increased since 1993.In addition,the total precipitation and precipitation frequency decrease in the two stages(before 1992 and after 1993),with some differences for the notable decreasing regions.