CONTENTS

Purpose

Editorial Policy

Summary of Forecasts

March 2003

Dynamical Forecasts of Tropical Pacific SST - Wanqiu Wang, Ming Ji, Arun Kumar, and Ants Leetmaa

Dynamically Based Forecasts for 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

SST Predictions with an Intermediate Coupled Model of the Tropical Pacific - Boris Dewitte, Dasha Gushchina, Yves duPenhoat, and Rodrigo Abarca del Rio

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

Forecast of Tropical Pacific SST using an Intermediate Ocean and a Statistical Atmosphere Model In-Sik Kang, Chung-Kyu Park, and Jong-Seong Kug

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

Constructed Analogue (CA) Prediction of the Tropical Pacific SST and the Entire World Ocean for 2003 - Huug van den Dool

Forecast of Tropical SSTs using Linear Inverse Modeling (LIM) - Cecile 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

2003 Seasonal Consensus Climate Forecasts for Wildland Fire Management - Timothy J. Brown, Anthony Barnston, John O. Roads, Russell Martin, and Klaus E. Wolter

Rainfall Prediction for Northeast Brazil during MAM and AMJ 2003 - José A. Marengo, Iracema F. A. Cavalcanti, and Helio Camargo

ECPC's Mar. 2003 Seasonal Forecasts - J. Roads, S. Chen, and J. Ritchie

Statistical Forecasts of the 2003 Western Wildfire Season Using Canonical Correlation Analysis - Anthony L. Westerling, Alexander Gershunov, and Daniel R. Cayan

Forecast of El Niño Event by Extended Associate Pattern Analysis - Cui Maochang, Mo Jun, Yu Yonqiang

June 2003

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

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

Dynamical Forecasts of Tropical Pacific SST - Wanqiu Wang, Ming Ji, Arun Kumar, and Ants Leetmaa

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

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

SST Predictions with an Intermediate Coupled Model of the Tropical Pacific - Boris Dewitte, Dasha Gushchina, Yves duPenhoat, and Rodrigo Abarca del Rio

Neural-dynamical Hybrid Coupled Model Forecasts of the Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures - Youmin Tang and William Hsieh

Constructed Analogue (CA) Prediction of the Tropical Pacific SST and the Entire World Ocean 2003/04 - Huug van den Dool

Forecast of Tropical SSTs using Linear Inverse Modeling (LIM) - Cecile 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

Experimental Forecast of 2003 Season Rainfall in the Sahel and Other Regions of Tropical North Africa - Andrew Colman and Mike Davey

ECPC's Seasonal Forecasts - J. Roads, M. Kanamitsu, L. De Haan, and T. Nakaegawa

Experimental CCA Forecasts of Canadian Temperature and Precipitation -- Jul-Aug-Sep 2003 - Amir Shabbar