CONTENTS

Purpose, Editorial Policy, and guidelines for contributions

Summary of Forecasts

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

Neural-dynamical hybrid coupled model forecasts of the tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures - Youmin Tang and William Hsieh

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

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

SST Predictions with a Global Coupled GCM - Zeng-Zhen Hu, Bohua Huang, and Edwin K. Schneider

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

Nonlinear canonical correlation analysis forecasts of the tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures - Aiming Wu and William W. Hsieh

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

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

Constructed Analogue (CA) Prediction of the Tropical Pacific SST and the Entire World Ocean for 2002 - Huug van den Dool

Forecasts of western North Pacific Winter-time SST anomalies - Niklas Schneider and Arthur J. Miller

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

Forecasts of the Indo-Pacific SSTs Using Canonical Correlation Analysis - Willem A. Landman and Simon J. Mason

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

Empirical Prediction of the Global Temperature Anomaly for 2002 - Chris Folland and Andrew Colman

Climate Prediction of precipitation over South America for DJF 2001/2002 and MAM 2002 - Iracema F.A.Cavalcanti, Jose A. Marengo, and Helio Camargo

Forecast of North Brazil Seasonal Rainfall for February to May 2002 Using Empirical and Dynamical Methods Based on Atmosphere and Sea Temperatures up to Mid-December 2001 - A.W. Colman, M.K. Davey, P. McLean, and R.J. Graham

ECPC's December 2001 Atmospheric Forecasts - J. Roads, S. Chen and J. Ritchie

Experimental CCA Forecasts of Canadian Temperature and Precipitation --- Jan- Feb- Mar 2002 - Amir Shabbar

Forecasts of Southern African DJF Rainfall Using Model Output Statistics - W.A. Landman, L. Goddard, and A. Barnston