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CONTENTS

Forecast of Tropical Pacific SST Using a Simple Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Dynamical Model -- Stephen E. Zebiak, Mark A. Cane and Dake Chen

Forecast of NINO3 Using a Low Order Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model -- Richard Kleeman

Prediction of NINO3 SST Anomaly In A Hybrid Coupled Model With A Piggy-Back Data Assimilation Initialization -- Husin-Hsin Syu, J. David Neelin

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

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

SST Predictions with a Global Coupled GCM -- Bohua Huang, Zhengxin Zhu, David G. DeWitt, J. Shukla and Edwin K. Schneider

Dynamical Forecasts of Tropical Pacific SST and North American Climate Using a Two-Tiered Process -- Tony Barnston, Ming Ji, Arun Kumar, Wanqiu Wang and Ants Leetmaa

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

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

Constructed Analogue Prediction of the East Central Tropical Pacific SST for 1999 into 2000 -- 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

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

ECPC's U.S. Forecasts -- J. Roads, S. -C. Chen. and J. Ritchie

Climate Prediction of Precipitation for the Nordeste Rainy Season of MAM 1999 -- Iracema F. A. Cavalcanti, Luciano P. Pezzi, Gilvan Sampaio, and Marcos Barbosa Sanches

A Dynamical One-Month Lead Seasonal Rainfall Prediction for March to May 1999 for the North-Eastern Area of South America -- Tony Evans and Richard Graham

Forecasts of Surface Temperature an Precipitation Anomalies Over the U.S. Using Screening Multiple Linear Regression -- D. Unger

Experimental CCA Forecasts of Canadian Temperature and Precipitation - Apr-May-Jun 1999 -- Amir Shabbar and Anthony Barnston

A Statistical Forecast of March-July 1999 Precipitation in Uruguay Based on the ENSO State -- Gabriel Pisciottano, Gabriel Cazes, Alvaro Diaz and Jose L. Genta

Multiple Regression and Discriminant Analysis to Predict Mar-Apr-May-Jun 1999 Rainfall in Northeast Brazil -- Larry Greischar and Stefan Hastenrath

CCA Forecast for Sahel Rainfall in Jul-Aug-Sep 1999 -- Wassila Thiaw and Anthony Barnston

Statistical Prediction of March-May 1999 Rainfall in Northeast Brazil from SST up to the end of January Using Linear Regression and Discriminant Analysis -- A. Colman and M. Davey