中文摘要：

副热带夏季风作为东亚副热带地区的重要环流系统,对我国东部特别是华东地区的天气、气候和极端天气气候事件产生有重要影响。本文主要论述了副热带季风的定义、特征（包括建立、进退及其北边缘）、副热带夏季风雨季、青藏高原影响等方面近30年来的研究成果,并针对当前副热带夏季风及副热带夏季风系统和相关的气候、气候变化等方面的科学问题进行了探讨。

英文摘要：

The subtropical East Asian summer monsoon, as a part of the East Asian monsoon system, influences the weather and climate as well as associated extreme meteorological events over eastern China. The context reviews the its definition, the feature （onset, moving, north boundary and rain season）, the effect of Tibetan Plateau on it and its research progress for the recent 30 years, and then discusses the closely related problem of regional climate, climate varibility and change.