Despite unprecedented heatwave events reported in the past two decades over inner East Asia, the maximum and minimum temperatures of Tmax and Tmin do not always exhibit continuous increasing. After drastic increases in Tmax and Tmin appeared over inner East Asia from 1982, a decreasing trend occurred around 1998, which was closely associated with the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation (AMO). During 1950–2014, the correlation be...