Abstract:Using regular datasets and HYSPLIT(Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory Model) model, this paper investigated the characteristics of precipitation and water vapor transport in Yangtze River Valley(YRV) during anomalous eastward and westward extension events of South Asian High(SAH) on sub-seasonal time scales in early and late summers. The results show that when SAH extended eastward during early summer, the western Pacific subtropical high stretch would extend westward towards East Asian land area. In the meantime, the positive rainfall was anomaly located in eastern China with enhanced precipitation in Yangtze-Huaihe River Valley(YHRV). However, when SAH extended eastward in the late summers, the west ridge point of Western Pacific Subtropical High(WPSH) was further eastward and the positive rainfall anomaly moved more westward to middle China than in early summers, inducing the enhanced precipitation in Sichuan Basin. In the early summers, compared with the SAH's westward extension events, the SAH's eastward extension events were more conducive to water vapor transportation from south China to YHRV. The associated anomalous upward motion in YHRV together with the water vapor conditions led to the enhanced rainfall in this region. Results over Sichuan Basin in late summers were similar.