CONTENTS

Purpose

Editorial Policy

Summary of Forecasts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 and Ming Ji

Constructed Analogue Prediction of the East Central Tropical Pacific SST and the Entire World Ocean for remainder 2000 and 2001 (Sept 2000), Huug van den Dool

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

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

ECPC's September 200 Forecasts, J. Roads, S. Chen, J. Ritchie

Experimental Forecast of East African Rainfall for October-December 2000, Andrew Colman

Winter-Spring 2001 United States Streamflow Probabilities based on Anticipated Neutral ENSO Conditions and Recent NPO Status, Michael D. Dettinger, Daniel R. Cayan, Gregory J. McCabe, Jr., and Kelly T. Redmond

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