CONTENTS



Purpose, Editorial Policy, and Guidelines for Contributors

Summary of Forecasts

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

Experimental Forecasts 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

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

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

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

Forecasting the tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures by nonlinear canonical correlation analysis - Aiming Wu and William W. Hsieh

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

Forecasts of Nino-3 SST Anomalies and SOI based on Singular Spectrum Analysis combined with the Maximum Entropy Method - Amira Saunders, Michael Ghil and J. David Neelin

Constructed Analogue Prediction of the East Central Tropical Pacific SST and the Entire World Ocean for 2001 into 2002 - Huug van den Dool

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

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

Probabilistic Forecasting of NINO3 Using Statistical Models - Simon J. Mason

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

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

Experimental Forecast of East African Rainfall for October-December 2001- Andrew Colman

Experimental CCA Forecasts of Canadian Temperature and Precipitation --- Dec Jan Feb 2002 - Amir Shabbar