The Annual Meeting and Workshop of national eleventh-five-year key project, “Main Extreme Climate Events and Monitoring, Verification and Prediction of Key Meteorological Disaster in China” was held from 7-10 December 2009 in Kunming.
      Nearly 70 delegates from 20 universities and institutions attended the meeting. The meeting focused on the following themes: 1) verification of extreme climate events; 2) characteristics and cause of extreme climate events; 3) numerical simulation of extreme climate events; 4) risk and impact assessment of key meteorological disasters; 5) development of operational system for monitoring, diagnosis and prediction of extreme climate events; 6) development of integrated service operational system.
      During the meeting, the key scientific issue and technical difficulty were discussed, and many beneficial advices were given through expert consultations.