By using the daily temperature data in 90 meteorological observatories in Shandong Province,the median and a new kind of extreme event detection method which was put forward by Hample,the variation characteristics of extreme cold and warm weather climate events in Shandong Province were detected and analyzed.The results showed that the extreme high temperature days had no obvious variation,and the extreme warm days tended to increase.The extreme cold event decreased obviously and had the obvious inter-decadal variation characteristic.In the 1960s,the extreme cold(warm) event happened frequently,but they both decreased slightly during the 1970s-metaphase of 1980s.After the metaphase of 1990s,the extreme warm event happened frequently,but the extreme cold event decreased sharply.In the spatial distribution,the extreme cold events in most areas of Shandong tended to decrease.But the occurrence frequency variation of extreme warm event presented the radial distribution characteristics that it increased in the eastern coastal zone and decreased in the southwest,northwest of Shandong Province.Under the background that the global climate became warm obviously in the metaphase of 1980s,the positive trend scope of extreme warm event linear variation in Shandong Province obviously became large.The variation of extreme low temperature days in most areas tended to be stable,and the main trend of extreme cold days was still the rapid decrease.
