Abstract:By using the NCEP/NCAR daily reanalysis data, surface observation objective data and automatic precipitation data, based on the analysis of characteristics of heavy precipitation, water vapor transportation and local circulation over Zhejiang Province in 2015, the dominant circulation leading to heavy rainfall was analyzed, involving Southwest monsoon, subtropical high, South Asia high and wave activity of westerly belt. Results show that, in 2015, the precipitation in Meiyu period in Zhejiang Province was significantly higher than the rainfall mean climatology and over doubled in central Zhejiang. The water vapor transported mainly via Southwest airflow from the eastern part of the Bay of Bengal. The continuous heavy rainfall consisted of three heavy rainfall processes and was caused by west wind convergence type frontogenesis. The stronger atmospheric convective instability was beneficial for the development of meso-scale convective system on Meiyu front, making the uneven distribution of precipitation in the second rainstorm processes. In the first and third processes, the atmosphere is convective stable or neutral, and the precipitation was mainly due to baroclinic precipitation. In the lower troposphere, anomalous circulation was featured by more eastern and southern subtropical high, which facilitated the converging cold air and warm moist Southwest airflow on the northwestern side of subtropical high, resulting in continuous heavy precipitation over Zhejiang area. In the upper troposphere, strong convergence at the right side of entrance of the East Asia strong subtropical westerly jet at the northeastern side of the South Asia high enhanced strong vertical ascending motion. In the middle troposphere, Rossby wave energy in the east of the Baikal Lake blocking high propagated the south-eastward and accumulated in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. These all were response for forming the steady Meiyu front as well as lower level shear line and being conducive of the maintenance of heavy rainfall. In the spring and summer of 2015, the anomalous SST forcing in the central and East equatorial Pacific is favorable of the occurrence of the severe precipitation events in Zhejiang.