Contents

Purpose and Editorial Policy

Summary of Forecasts

Empirical Prediction of the Global Temperature Anomaly for 2006 - by Chris Folland & Andrew Colman

Forecast of North East Brazil Seasonal Rainfall for February to May 2006 Using Empirical and Dynamical Methods and Atmosphere and Ocean Data up to End November 2005 - by A.W. Colman, and R.J. Graham

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

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

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

Tropical Pacific SST Forecasts Utilizing Multiple Coupled GCMs - by David G. DeWitt, Edwin K. Schneider and Dan Paolino

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

Seasonal forecasts of tropical cyclone numbers in the Australian/southwest Pacific Ocean region using a new Poisson regression model: Verification of 2003/04 and 2004/05 season forecasts and forecast for 2005/06 season - by Katrina A McDonnell, Neil J Holbrook, and Hakeem Shaik