[Summary of Forecasts ][Purpose and Editorial Policy]

CONTENTS

Forecast of Tropical Pacific SST Using a Simple Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Dynamical Model--Stephen E. Zebiak, Mark A. Cane and Dake Chen

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

Dynamically Based Forecasts for Tropical Pacific SST through Mid 1998 Using a Hybrid Coupled Ocean-Atmospheric Model--Tim Barnett, David Pierce, Nicholas Graham andMojib Latif

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

SST Predictions with a Global Coupled GCM--Zhengxin Zhu, Bohua Huang, David G. DeWitt, J. Shukla and Edwin K. Schneider

Dynamical Forecasts of Tropical Pacific SST and North American Climate Using a Two-Tiered Process--Tony Barnston, Ming Ji, Arun Kumar, Wanqiu Wang and Ants Leetmaa

Climate Prediction of precipitation over South America for DJF 1998/99 and MAM 1999--Iracema F.A. Cavalcanti, Luciano P. Pezzi, Jose Marengo, Gilvan Sampaio, Marcos Barbosa Sanches

ECPC's U.S. Forecasts--J. Roads, S. -C. Chen, J. Ritchie

Constructed Analogue Prediction of the East Central Tropical SST through remainder of 1998 and 1999--Huug van den Dool

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

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

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

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

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

Precipitation Forecasts for the Tropical Pacific Islands Using Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA)--Yuxiang He and Tony Barnston

Forecasts of Surface Temperature and Precipitation Over the U.S. Using Screening Multiple Linear Regression--David A. Unger

Experimental CCA Forecasts of Canadian Temperature and Precipitation Mar-Apr-May 1999--Amir Shabbar and Anthony Barnston

Prediction of the January to March Rainfall of South Africa, Botswana and Namibia Using CCA--Willem A. Landman and Simon J. Mason

CCA Forecast for Southern Africa Rainfal l in Jan-Feb-Mar 1999--Wassila Thiaw and Anthony Barnston

Prediction of Summer Rainfall over Eastern South Africa Using Empirical Methods--Larry Greischar, Stefan Hastenrath and Johan van Heerden

Statistical Prediction of January-June 1999 Rainfall in Northeast Brazil using input from Multiple Regression and Discriminant Analysis--A. Colman, M. Davey

A Forecast of the February-March 1999 Anomalous Discharge of the Caroní River, Venezuela--Stefan Hastenrath, Larry Greischar, Esperanza Colón and Alfred Gil

Verification of our Forecasts for the 1998 North Atlantic Hurricane Season and Predictions for the 1999 Season--James B. Elsner

SOI-based forecast of Australian region tropical cyclone activity--N. Nicholls