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 Cooke4 and Liping Zhang4, (1)NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)NOAA Princeton, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States