CONTENTS

Purpose, Editorial Policy, and guidelines for contributions

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

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

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

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

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 2004 - Huug van den Dool

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

Experimental Forecast of East African Rainfall for October – December 2003 - A.W. Colman, M.K. Davey

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

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