CONTENTS

Purpose

Editorial Policy

Summary of Forecasts

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

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

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

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

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

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 Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere

CCA Forecasts of Sea-Surface Temperature Anomalies for JJA 2000, SON 2000, and DJF 2000/01, Willem A. Landman

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

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

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

Forecast of Tropical Pacific SST Using a Markov Model, Yan Xue ane Ming Ji

Constructed Analogue Prediction of the East Central Tropical Pacific SST for 2000 and into 2001, Huug van den Dool

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

ECPC's June 2000 Forecasts, J. Roads, S. Chen, J. Ritchie

Experimental CCA Forecasts of Canadian Temperature and Precipitation - Jul-Aug-Sep 2000, Amir Shabbar and Anthony Barnston

Experimental Frecast of 2000 Seasonal Rainfall in the Sahel and other Regions of Tropical North Africa Using Dynamical and Statistical Methods, AndrewW. Colman, Mike K. Davey, Richard J. Graham and Robin T. Clark

2000 West African June to September Rainfall: Experimental Statistical Forecasts Based on April Values of Regional Predictors, Nathalie Philippon and Bernard Fontaine

Seasonal Prediction of Summer Monsoon Rainfall in Central-East China, Xu Qu