Abstract:Huaihe River is one of the main rivers in China.It lies between the Yellow River and Yangtze River.Since ancient times,floods and droughts occurred frequently in Huaihe River Basin with significant casualties and economic losses.In developing measures for disaster prevention or emergency response for disaster relief,the study of floods and droughts caused by precipitation anomaly in Huaihe River Basin should be strengthened.Based on the observation dataset,this study not only defines the precipitation transition events from spring to summer,but also produces its intensity using total seasonal precipitation.The precipitation transition from spring to summer is analyzed by using the 30 gauge stations in Huaihe River Basin during 1961-2014.The typical patterns of Wet-Wet and Dry-Wet transitions generally occurred and their intensities were stronger in the past 54 years.The results indicate that temporal variation of transition event shows interannual and interdecadal variabilities.The significant decrease trend of transition frequency is detected during 1961-1979 and 2000-2010,but it has increased in recent years.The transitions often occur in more than one-third stations over half sample periods.This study applies the Season-reliant Empirical Orthogonal Function(S-EOF) analysis to detect major modes of seasonal precipitation.Based on S-EOF method,the cumulative variance contribution of the first mode is up to 34.4%.The principal component 1(PC1) illustrates the continuous positive precipitation anomaly in spring and summer in most areas,and it is worthy to notice the rising of its time coefficient in past few years.Otherwise,transition from negative to positive precipitation anomaly and interdecadal variation of time coefficient are shown by PC2.Furthermore,results show that PC1 relates to continuous El Niño event from early winter to spring,positive East Asian subtropical westerly anomaly at 200 hPa in spring,positive Indian Ocean Dipole and south wind anomaly at 850 hPa over eastern China from spring to summer.The reverse occurs during a continuous negative phase scenario.The negative SSTA in eastern coast of China,the significant changes of northward East Asian subtropical westerly,and the shift of meridional wind anomaly at 850 hPa over southeastern China cross seasons play important roles in the occurrence of PC2 in Huaihe River.