Abstract: Based on both the CLIPER predictors and the EOF predictors,CCA predictors of 500 hPa height fields respectively, two sets of track forecast models for typhoons over the South China Sea at intervals from 24h to 120 h were proposed in this paper. The models were verified and compared using the dependent and the independent samples. The applied analyses of the two methods performed on the height fields or allohypsic fields at 500 hPa have been shown that the canonical weighted coefficient distribution derived by the CCA method did not exhibit the apparant and smooth space patterns of the eigenvectors derived by the EOF method. However, the ensemble information of original variable fields correlative to the tracks of typhoon were much more enriched by the CCA method. Consequently, the forecast errors were reduced effectively. The verifications indicated that the track forecast models either based on EOF predictors or based on CCA predictors show skill over CLIPER models, whereas the latter forecast performance is better. The 5-year-averaged vector errors are 86, 170, 283, 436 and 533 nautical miles at 24,48, 72, 96 and 120 h respectively. The track forecast models can be taken as effective objective prediction techniques for predicting the short and mid range tracks of typhoon over the South China Sea.