NEW YORK, Nov 16 (Reuters) - U.S. copper futures surged to a three-week high Monday morning, with a weaker dollar, supply-side concerns, and an improved global economic outlook combining to drive prices up close to their yearly highs. For detailed report on global copper markets, click on [MET/L] * Copper for December delivery HGZ9 jumped 8.90 cents, or 3 percent, to $3.0615 a lb by 9:55 a.m. EST (1455 GMT) on the New York Mercantile Exchange's COMEX division. * Range from $2.9725 to $3.0625, highest since Oct. 26. * Copper emerging from prolonged sideways pattern. A breakout above yearly high at $3.0690 to push prices into the $3.18 area - Sterling Smith, an analyst for Country Hedging in St. Paul, Minnesota. * COMEX estimated futures volume at 17,529 lots by 9 a.m. * Copper up on the weaker dollar, despite slowdown in New York state manufacturing activity - Smith. [USD/] [ID:nN15305681] * Copper buoyed by faster-than-expected pace of U.S. retail sales in October and unexpected jump in Japanese economic growth in the third quarter. [ID:nN16507114] [ID:nT339912] * Heavy snow in northern China and a big rise in annual copper premiums for China, the world's largest metals consumer, provided additional boost to copper prices. [ID:nPEK129447] * Chile's Codelco, the world's top copper producer, has raised term premiums for refined copper to China by $10 per tonne to $85 per tonne for delivery in 2010. [ID:nPEK158133] * London Metal Exchange warehouse stocks rose by 2,825 tonnes to 406,450 tonnes, their highest since late April. * COMEX copper warehouses took in 1,321 short tons to total 70,675 short tons as of Friday. CMWSU * Money managers were net long on 9,117 contracts of copper futures for the week ended Nov. 9 - data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. [ID:nN13482625] * LME three-month copper MCU3 at $6,743 a tonne, up $223 from Friday's close.

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