CONTENTS

Purpose and Editorial Policy

Summary of Forecasts

Dynamically Based Forecasts for Tropical Pacific SST Using a Hybrid Coupled Ocean-Atmospheric 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 W. Hsieh

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

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 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

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

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

Combined Statistical/Dynamical Forecast of 2004 Season Rainfall in the Sahel and Other Regions of Tropical North Africa using Observed Ocean and Atmosphere Information from up to June 2004 – Andrew Colman

Expermental Forecast with the latest Version of the LDEO Model - Dake Chen, Stephen E. Zebiak, and Mark A. Cane

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