CONTENTS



Purpose

Editorial Policy

Summary of Forecasts



September 2002

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

SST Predictions with a Global Coupled GCM - Zeng-Zhen Hu, Bohua Huang, and Edwin K. Schneider

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

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

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

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

Neural Network Model Forecasts of the NINO3.4 Sea Surface Temperature - Benyang Tang, William W. Hsieh and Fredolin T. Tangang

Constructed Analogue (CA) Prediction of the Tropical Pacific SST and the Entire World Ocean for the remainder of 2002 and early 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

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

ECPC's Sept. 2002 Seasonal Forecasts - J. Roads, S. Chen, and J. Ritchie

United States Streamflow Probabilities and Uncertainties based on Anticipated El Niño, Water Year 2003 - Michael Dettinger, Daniel Cayan, and Kelly Redmond

Experimental Forecast of East African Rainfall for October-December 2002 - Andrew Colman

A Statistical-Empirical Forecast of October-December 2002 Precipitation in Uruguay-Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) Based on the ENSO State - Gabriel Pisciottano and Mariana Mendina

Forecast of the October-December 2002 Atmospheric Circulation Using the UCLA-AGCM and the NCEP-Forecasted TP-SST, Combined with a Statistical Downscaling to Estimate Oct-Dec/02 Precipitation in regions of Uruguay-Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) - Gabriel Cazes and Gabriel Pisciottano

Long-Term Forecasts of Droughts Using a Conjunction of Wavelet Transforms and Artificial Neural Networks - Tae-Woong Kim, Juan B. Valdes, and Javier Aparicio



December 2002

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nonlinear Canonical Correlation Analysis Forecasts of the Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures - Aiming Wu and William W. Hsieh

Neural Network Model Forecasts of the NINO3.4 Sea Surface Temperature - Benyang Tang, William W. Hsieh and Fredolin T. Tangang

ECPC's Dec. 2002 Seasonal Forecasts - J. Roads, S. Chen, and J. Ritchie

Empirical Prediction of the Global Temperature Anomaly for 2003 - Chris Folland and Andrew Colman