CONTENTS

Purpose

Editorial Policy

Summary of Forecasts

Prediction of NINO3 SST anomaly in a hybrid coupled model with a piggy-back data assimilation initialization - Hui Su, Hsin-Hsin Syu and J. David Neelin

Dynamical Forecasts of Tropical Pacific SST - Wanqiu Wang, Ming Ji, Arun Kumar and Ants Leetmaa

Forecast of Tropical Pacific SST using an intermediate ocean and a statistical atmospheric model - In-Sik Kang, Chung-Kyu Park and Jong-Seong Kug

Experimental Forecast with a New Version of the LDEO Model - Dake Chen, Stephen E. Zebiak and Mark A Cane

Dynamically Based Forecasts for Tropical Pacific SST Using a Hybrid Coupled Ocean-Atmospheric Model - Tim Barnett, David Pierce, Nicholas Graham and Mojib Latif

Forecast of NINO3 using a low order coupled ocean-atmosphere model - R. Kleeman

Tropical Pacific SST Predictions with a Coupled GCM - Ben P. Kirtman and J. Shukla

SST Predictions with a Global Coupled GCM - Edwin K. Schneider, Bohua Huang and Zhengxin Zhu

Seasonal Forecasts of the Extratropical Pacific Ocean - Guillermo Auad, Arthur J. Miller, John O. Roads, John N. Ritchie

Forecast of Tropical SSTs using Linear Inverse Modeling (LIM) - Cecile Penland, Ludmila Matrosova, Klaus Weickmann and Catherine Smith

Constructed Analogue Prediction of the East Central Tropical Pacific SST and the Entire World Ocean for 2001 - Huug van den Dool

Forecast of Tropical Pacific SST Using a Markov Model - Yan Xue and Ming Ji

Forecasts of Niño-3 SST Anomalies and SOI Based on Singular Spectrum Analysis Combined with the Maximum Entropy Method - Amira Saunders, Michael Ghil and J. David Neelin

Application of the El Nino-Southern Oscillation CLImatology and PERsistence (CLIPER) Forecasting Scheme - Christopher W. Landsea and John A Knaff

Neural Network Model Forecasts of the NINO3.4 Sea Surface Temperature - Benyang Tang, William W. Hsieh and Fredolin T. Tang

ECPC,s Dec. 2000 Atmospheric Forecasts - J. Roads, S. Chen, J. Ritchie

ECPC,s 2001 Forecast of Australia Annual Rainfall Anomalies - Warren B. White

Experimental CCA Forecasts of Canadian Temperature and Precipitation - Jan-Feb-Mar 2001 - Amir Shabbar and Anthony Barnston

Empirical Prediction of the Global Temperature Anomaly for 2001 - Chris Folland and Andrew Colman

Statistical Prediction of January-June 2001 Rainfall in Northeast Brazil Using Input From Multiple Regression and Discriminant Analysis - A. Colman and M. Davey