CONTENTS



Purpose

Editorial Policy

Summary of Forecasts

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

SST Predictions with a Global Coupled GCM- Bohua Huang, Zeng-Zhen Hu, and Edwin K. Schneider

Prediction of NINO3 SST anomaly in a hybrid coupled model with a piggy back data assimilation initialization- Joyce E. Meyerson, Hui Su, and David J. Neelin

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

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

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

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 an intermediate ocean and a statistical atmosphere model- In-Sik Kang, Chung-kyu Park, and Jong-Seong Kug

Forecasts of Nino-3 SST Anomalies and SOI Based on Singular Spectrum Analysis Combined with the Maximum Entropy Method -Dmitri Kondrashov, Michael Ghil, and J. David Neelin

Nonlinear canonical correlation analysis forecasts of the tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures- Aiming Wu and William W. Hsieh

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

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

Constructed Analogue (CA) Prediction of the Tropical Pacific SST and the Entire World Ocean for 2002- Huug van den Dool

Forecasts of western North Pacific Winter-time SST anomalies- Niklas Schneider and Arthur J. Miller

2002 Seasonal Consensus Climate Forecasts for Wildland Fire Management- Timothy J. Brown, Anthony Barnston, John O. Roads, Rich Tinker, and Klaus E. Wolter

ECPC's March 2001 Seasonal Forecasts- J. Roads, S. Chen and J. Ritchie

Experimental CCA Forecasts of Canadian Temperature and Precipitation --- Apr- May- Jun 2002 - Amir Shabbar