The development of a coupled data assimilation system using only surface pressure observations: potential for decadal climate prediction initialization


Xiaosong Yang1, Thomas L Delworth2, Fanrong Jenny Zeng3, William Cooke2 and Liping Zhang4, (1)NOAA, GFDL, Princeton, United States, (2)NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (4)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States