Abstract:Based on the characteristics of summer soil moisture anomaly in Eurasia and its correlation analysis with summer temperatures in China, the East Asia was selected as the land-forcing key area and the possible responses of summer temperature in China to soil moisture anomaly in East Asia were discussed by using the Generalized Equilibrium Feedback Assessment (GEFA), and then the relevant physical processes were also preliminarily analyzed. Results show that the connections of summer temperature in China and soil moisture anomaly in East Asia are quite close in both early summer and summer. Further analysis shows that the response of summer temperature in China to the first EOF mode of soil moisture anomaly is the most significant: when soil moisture in mid-latitude of East Asia and eastern China is abnormally dry, the summer temperature in China is consistently warming. The second EOF mode of soil moisture has a weak forcing to temperature from Yangtze river basin to western China. The forcing of the third mode lower the temperature in South China apparently. Taking the first EOF mode of soil moisture, the most significant impact on temperature, for example, the possible process is simply discussed as follows. When the soil is dry to the south of Baikal lake and eastern China, the abnormal heating on land surface is likely to cause significant positive anomaly in upper atmosphere and anti-cyclonic circulation anomaly in low atmosphere in northern China, which may lead to a higher temperature and may inhibit the occurrence of precipitation in this area, thus decreasing the soil moisture. The positive feedback mechanism mentioned above may be a possible way linking soil moisture and the atmosphere in this region.