From July 10 to 11, 2018, the Meeting of 2018 World Weather Research Program (WWRP) was successfully held in Shanghai. It was sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences and China Meteorological Administration Shanghai Typhoon Institute. Tao Liying, deputy director of Shanghai Meteorological Service, attended the meeting and delivered welcoming remarks. Nanette Lomarda, senior meteorological officer of the WMO WWRP, and Chen Lianshou, academician of the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, delivered opening speeches respectively.

The two-day meeting focused on the progress and future plans of Typhoon Landfall Forecast Demonstration Project (TLFDP) and Understanding and Prediction of Rainfall Associated with Tropical Cyclones (UPDRAFT), which were under WWRP. It was also centered around the advancement and following steps of Experiment on Typhoon Intensity Change in Coastal Area (EXOTICCA), which was under the WMO Typhoon Committee of U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).

Nearly 40 experts attended the meeting. They were from, among others, University of Reading (Britain), the National Hurricane Center (US), the Hurricane Research Center (US), the National Center for Atmospheric Research (US), the Disaster Prevention and Relief Research Center (New Zealand), the India Meteorological Department, Hong Kong Observatory, Nanjing University, Beihang University, Institute of Atmospheric Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the National Meteorological Centre. After two days of reports and exchanges, the participating experts affirmed significant progress in the three projects, significantly boosting the tropical weather forecasting research and strengthening the international cooperation.