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

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

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

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

ECPC’s March 2005 Seasonal Forecasts - J. Roads, M. Kanamitsu, L. De Haan, J. Ritchie

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