CONTENTS

Purpose and Editorial Policy

Summary of Forecasts

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

The COLA Anomaly Coupled Model Global SST Predictions - Ben P. Kirtman and Dughong Min

Expermental Forecast with the latest 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 Tropical Pacific SST Using a Markov Model - Yan Xue

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

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

Forecast of North East Brazil Seasonal Rainfall for February to May 2005 using Empirical and Dynamical Methods and Atmosphere and Ocean Data up to November 2004 - Andrew Colman and R.J. Graham

2004/05 Tropical Cyclone Forecasts for the Australian-Southwest Pacific Ocean Region Using a New Poisson Regression Model - Katrina A. McDonnell and Neil J. Holbrook

Dynamical seasonal forecasts from the POAMA-1 system - Oscar Alves, Guomin Wang and Harry Hendon

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