Abstract:Based on the CMA-STI tropical cyclone optimal track data from 1981 to 2018, NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data and OA Flux3 latent heat flux data, the climatic characteristics of accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) in Hainan Island in midsummer and the characteristics of atmospheric circulation background and related physical quantity in anomalous years were analyzed. The results showed that, the ACE index of Hainan Island of in midsummer showed a trend of first decreasing then increasing from 1981 to 2018. Meanwhile, it presented an obvious decadal characteristic, and there was a quasi-two-year significant cycle after 2010. In the high (low) ACE years, the western Pacific subtropical high was big (small), strong (weak) and westward (eastward), with a strong (weak) monsoon trough on the south side of the subtropical high, which made the convection on the north side of the typhoon active (inactive). In the lower levels, there was abnormal cyclonic shear (anticyclonic circulation) in the typhoon protection zone, and Hainan Island was affected by abnormal easterly (westerly) flow, which was favorable (unfavorable) for convection, water vapor to merge into typhoon circulation and strengthen (weaken) the typhoon. Moreover, the equatorial flow was active (inactive) at 120°-130°E. The suction effect at high altitude was relatively stronger (weaker) from east of the Philippines to the South China Sea, and the anomalous upward (downward) movement prevails, meanwhile the vertical shear of ambient wind was weaker (stronger). The latent heat flux around the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan was relatively smaller (larger), and in the lower layer, the tropical western Pacific and the South China Sea were the moisture convergence (divergence) region.