Abstract:Based on the daily precipitation data from 90 meteorological stations in Southwest China during 1970-2010, six extreme precipitation indices defined by the World Meteorological Organization such as RX5d,ATP, PPER, et al were used to analyze the temporal and spatial distributions of variation trend of extreme strong precipitation in Southwest China with methods like F test, 11-year moving average. Results indicated that in time scale the trend of RX5d(December-February;March-May;June-August) in Southwest China increased slowly, but decreased in September-November. R95p,SDII and PPER showed increasing trend, but ATP and CDD showed decreasing trend.Moreover, each extreme precipitation indice presented obvious interannual and interdecadal variations. In spatial scale, the extreme precipitation trend in Southwest China presents obvious geographical difference of gradient change from east to west or northwest to southeast. There existed significantly increasing trend of RX5d(December-February),SDII,PPER and CDD in most of Southwest China, but presented decreasing trend of ATP and RX5d(September-November) in most of Southwest China. The increasing/decreasing areas of RX5d(March-August)and ATP are appreximately equivalent.