CONTENTS

Purpose

Editorial Policy

Summary of Forecasts

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

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

Prediction of NINO3 SST anomaly in a hybrid coupled model with a piggy-back data assimilation initialization, Hsin-Hsin Syu and J. David Neelin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Climate Prediction of Precipitation for the Nordeste Rainy Season of MAM 2000, Iracema, F.A. Cavalcanti Jos A. Marengo, Helio Camargo, Christopher A.C. Castro, Marcos B. Sanches, and Gilvan O. Sampaio

Statistical Prediction of March-May 2000 Rainfall in Northeast Brazil from SST up to the end of January using Linear Regression and Discriminant Analysis, A.W. Colman, M.K. Davey, R.J. Graham and R.T. Clark

Experimental CCA Forecasts of Canadian Temperature and Precipitation - Apr-May-Jun 2000, Amir Shabbar and Anthony Barnston

Forecasts of Surface Temperature and Precipitation Anomalies over the U.S. Using Screening Multiple Linear Regression, D. Unger

Empirical Prediction of the Global Temperature Anomaly for 2000, Chris Folland and Andrew Colman

Multiple Regression and Discriminant Analysis to Precict Mar-Apr-May-Jun 2000 Rainfall in Northeast Brazil,Larry Greischar and Stefan Hastenrath

Artificial Neural Network Forecasts of California's Precipitation, David Silverman and John A. Dracup