Abstract:By using 1960—2004 daily maximum temperature, minimum temperature and daily rainfall data of 35 stations over Jiangsu Province, the basic features of extreme climate events such as extreme maximum temperature, extreme minimum temperature and extreme precipitation events in the last 45 a are investigated. Results show that: (1)The climatological annual extreme high temperature in west part of Jiangsu are higher than that in the east, but the extreme low temperatures increase south-ward evidently. The frequency of the extreme precipitation events decrease from the north to the south.(2)Increasing trends of the extreme high temperature are found over both the central and southern regions, but a weak decreasing trend in north-western region. The extreme low temperatures increase significantly over most regions. Increasing and decreasing trends are found in the frequencies of the extreme precipitation events over the south and north parts respectively, but no evident long-term trend in central Jiangsu.(3)Regional differences exist in the inter-annual and inter-decadal varibilities of the extreme high, low temperatures and extreme precipitation events.