CONTENTS


Purpose and Editorial Policy

Summary of Forecasts


Tropical Pacific SST Forecasts Utilizing Multiple Coupled GCMs - David G. Dewitt, Edwin K. Schneider, and Zeng-Zhen Hu

 The COLA Anomaly Coupled Model Global SST Predictions - Ben P. Kirtman and Dughong Min

Expermental Forecast with the latest Version of the LDEO Model - Dake Chen, Stephen E. Zebiak, and Mark A. Cane

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 - Joyce E. Meyerson, Hui Su, and J. David Neelin

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

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

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

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

A Statistical-Empirical Forecast of October-December 2004 Precipitation in Uruguay-Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) Based on the ENSO State - Gabriel Pisciottano, Mariana Mendina, and Alcaro Diaz

Forecast of East African Rainfall for October-December 2004 using Dynamical and Statistical Methods - Andrew Colman

SST predictions with an intermediate coupled model of the tropical Pacific - contributed by Boris Dewitte, Dasha Gushchina, Yves duPenhoat and Rodrigo Abarca del Rio