CONTENTS

Purpose, Editorial Policy, and guidelines for contributions

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

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

Constructed Analogue (CA) Prediction of the Tropical Pacific SST and the Entire World Ocean for 2004 - Huug van den Dool

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

Forecast of North Brazil Seasonal Rainfall for February to May 2004 Using Empirical and Dynamical Methods Based on Atmosphere and Sea Temperatures up to Mid-November 2003 - A.W. Colman, M.K. Davey, P. McLean, and R.J. Graham

ECPC's December 2003 Atmospheric Forecasts - J. Roads, S. Chen and J. Ritchie

Experimental CCA Forecasts of Canadian Temperature and Precipitation --- Jan- Feb- Mar 2004 - Amir Shabbar

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

SST predictions with an intermediate coupled model of the tropical Pacific - Boris Dewitte, Dasha Gushchina, Yves duPenhoat and Rodrigo Abarca del Rio

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

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

Tropical Pacific SST Forecasts Utilizing Multiple Coupled GCMs - David G. DeWitt, Edwin K. Schneider and Zeng-Zhen Hu