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Purpose and Editorial Policy

Summary of Forecasts

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

Combined Statistical/Dynamical Forecast of 2005 Season Rainfall in the Sahel and Other Regions of Tropical North Africa Using Observed Ocean and Atmosphere Information from up to Mid-May 2005 - by Andrew Colman

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

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

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 Zeng-Zhen Hu

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

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