Research and development services and related consultancy services

Tender description

ECMWF as the Entrusted Entity for the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) invites tenders for production of regional reanalyses covering geographical areas of special interest to European users of climate services. The regional reanalyses are needed to generate high-resolution, physically consistent, gridded estimates of Essential Climate Variables (ECVs, Bojinski et al. 2014) that will complement the information available from lower-resolution global reanalyses. This ITT is for two separate contracts to generate and deliver regional reanalysis products for Europe (Lot 1) and the Arctic (Lot 2). The scope of activities for each contract includes: — development of a production system for regional reanalysis; — preparation and quality control of observations and other input data; — reanalysis production, post-processing and quality assurance; — user guidance and user support via the C3S Service Desk; — management, implementation and coordination. C3S shall take ownership of all regional reanalysis data products delivered by these contracts. Contracts can include support for high-performance computing as required for production. Permanent archiving of the data products and provision of data access services is outside the scope of the contracts, and shall be arranged by C3S making use of ECMWF data handling facilities. Framework agreements of up to 48 months will be issued in 2 Lots: — Lot 1: Regional Reanalysis Products for Europe; — Lot 2: Regional Reanalysis Products for the Arctic.