Abstract:By using the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) as the judgment standard of drought occurrence, based on the CART algorithm of data mining method, the relation between drought and multiple climate factors such as the north boundary of the summer western Pacific subtropical high, summer western Pacific subtropical high intensity index,Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO), the summer East Asian monsoon index and summer North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), summer Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), El Niño index and so on, was analyzed. Moreover, the classification decision tree was built and the prediction rules set of drought, the prediction model of drought was developed. The climatic factors included as input variables, and the result whether drought appears or not is considered as the output variable. Taking summer in Shangqiu for example, SPEI index of 58 years were calculated by the 1955-2012 monthly precipitation and monthry mean temperature data of Shangqiu as the drought index; multiple climatic factors in the same period were used as input variables. The random data of 46 years was used to get 7 classification rules, whose accuracy is 86.96%. Then, if all the data of 58 years was included, the results show the accuracy reached 91.67%. The results present that the drought prediction model established by CART algorithm provides a new idea for drought research and seasonal prediction.