Abstract:Based on the meteorological daily data from 1979 to 2017, the spatial and temporal characteristics of the Intra-seasonal Oscillation (ISO) of summer precipitation in eastern China and its relationship with low-frequency atmospheric circulation in the low and middle-high latitudes North Pacific were analyzed by using Empirical Orthogonal Function(EOF) and lead-lag regression method. The first EOF mode shows that the ISO precipitation in southeastern China is above-normal and that in northern China is below-normal. The low frequency Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) field indicates more active convection activity in southeastern China and less one in northern China. The anomalous low-frequency convective zone, located between the South China Sea and the subtropical western Pacific Ocean, propagates northward and northwestward, together with the low-frequency updraft and the low-frequency water vapor convergence zone. They arrive at south China one week before the positive phase peak of ISO precipitation in southeast China. The ISO precipitation in eastern China begins to show the north-south dipole pattern. At the same time, the low-frequency meridional wind at 200 hPa shows a zonal wave-train in the middle-high latitudes North Pacific. This low-frequency wave-train propagates westward. When a south wind anomaly among the wave-trains move to the region over East Asia—Japan Island, a meridional contrast is formed between it and the north wind anomaly which originates from the low latitude. This pattern results in a strong low-frequency divergence anomaly over southeast China. The northwestward propagation of the above low-frequency signals in the low latitudes cooperates with the westward propagation of low-frequency wave-train in the mid-high latitudes North Pacific. Thus, the above-normal convection activity, water vapor convergence, upward motion and high-level divergence anomaly are anchored over the southeastern China, contributing to the positive phase of ISO precipitation locally.