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Purpose and Editorial Policy

Summary of Forecasts

Neural-dynamical hybrid coupled model forecasts of the tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures -Youmin Tang and William W. Hsieh

Dynamical Forecasts of Tropical Pacific SST- Wanqui Wang, Ming Ji, Arun Kuman and Ants Leetmaa

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

Forecast of Tropical Pacific ST 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- Hui Su and J. David Neelin

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

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

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

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

Constructed Analogue (CA) Prediction of the East Central Tropicl Pacific SST and the Entire World Ocean for 2001 into 2002 (Mar 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

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

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

Climate Prediction of precipitation for the Nordeste rainy season of MAM 2001 - Iracema F.A. Cavalcanti, Jose A. Marengo, Marcos B. Sanches,, Helio Camargo and David Mendes

ECPC's Mar. 2001 Atmospheric Forecasts - J. Roads, S. Chen and J. Ritchie

Statistical Forecast of North Brazil Seasonal Rainfall for March to May 2001 Based on Sea Temperature Anomaly Patterns up to February 2001 -A.W. Colman, M.K. Davey and R.J. Graham

Statistical Forecast of the 2001 Western Wildfire Season Using Principal Components Regression - Anthony L. Westerling, Daniel R. Cayan, Alexander Gershunov, Michael D. Dettinger and Timothy Brown

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