Based on European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts （ECMWF） fifth-generation global atmospheric reanalysis （ERA5） every day from May to August during 1979-2020, three land-atmosphere indexes to investigate land-atmosphere coupling processes were calculated,characteristics of land-atmosphere coupling in climatology and their difference under different dry and wetsoil conditions were analyzed over eastern and southern Asia. The results show that Northeast and North China,the Tibetan plateau, India, Yunnan Province of China and Southeast Asia,the middle latitude arid zone were strong land-atmosphere coupling zones in climatology. In the middle latitude arid zone, land-atmosphere coupling had no significant difference under different soil conditions due to the low soil moisture and its little variability. In the other strong coupling zones, the coupling strength decreased with increasing soil moisture condition because of the bigger variability of soil moisture in these regions, and this law is applicable to the coupling processes between soil moisture（SM） and evapotranspiration （ET）, between ET and water vapor condition of boundary layer, between ET and instability condition of boundary layer. The land-atmosphere couplings over South China were weak in climatology, coupling between SM and ET was significant only under dry soil conditions, while the coupling between ET and atmospheric boundary layer were not significant under all soil moisture conditions.

The difference of land-atmosphere energy flux caused by the heterogeneity of underlying surface properties plays an important role in affecting the occurrence of local heavy precipitation. The transition of vegetation is fast in western part of the transition zone of China’s summer monsoon, the nature of vegetation is obviously different, and the surface heterogeneity is strong, so the extreme precipitation is prone to occurrence. In order to explore the influence of underlying surface heterogeneity on strong precipitation in this area, the characteristics of underlying surface were analyzed statistically. And on this basis the sensitivity tests with three or six kinds of landuse type and control test for a typical heavy rainfall process under the influence of the western Pacific subtropical high and cold air from 28 to 29 August 2017 were carried out by using the mesoscale model of WRF3.8 and NCAR-LSM land surface model. The influences of underlying surface change on rainstorm intensity, falling area and flux parameters were studied. The results show that the underlying surface with three to six kinds distributed in transition region of summer monsoon of China. The types of underlying surface were relatively few in eastern part of Qinghai to central Gansu, the heterogeneity was weak, while there were more than six kinds in southeastern part of Northwest China and northern Sichuan, the heterogeneity was strong. The proportion of representative vegetation in a single grid in the model was not high, and the contribution rate to land-atmosphere flux was less than 50%, which indicated that it was not suitable to consider the single underlying surface in calculating land-to-air flux during the heavy rain process. The area of precipitation with different magnitudes was closer to the actual situation with the increase of underlying surface types in the model, and the heterogeneity of land feature physical quantity strengthened in main rain zones. Compared with the control test, the simulated shallow surface temperature, surface heat flux, sensible heat flux and latent heat flux by two sensitivity tests reduced during the daytime, which shrank the bias to some extent, thus decreased convective available potential energy and restrained the occurrence of convective rainfall, further reduced the positive bias of precipitation.

The characteristics of the extreme drought event occurred from 1941 to 1943 in North China and its influence were analyzed in this paper． Results show that this drought event was the second extremely arid events during the Republic of China period，and He’ nan Province was the center of this event． It occurred on interdecadal relatively warm period and persisted long time． This drought event influenced so many provinces，and disaster was so serious with locust occurrence． It made population suffer severe losses and food prices soaring as well as ecological environment deterioration．