Research and development services and related consultancy services

Tender description

The contractor for Lot 1 will facilitate access and manipulation of global climate projections from the CMIP5 archive. On the technical side, requirements will be set in terms of response time, availability of a user friendly interface with the C3S Climate Data Store and web portal, documentation standards, implementation of appropriate protocols (e.g. OPeNDAP) to allow computations from stored data on local servers. Scientific requirements on available data will also be specified in terms of number of supported models, number of available scenarios, availability of historical (e.g. 20th century to current date) simulations, minimum ensemble size. The focus of this particular contract is on non-initialized scenario simulations running up to 2100. The contractor for Lot 2 will define the metrics aimed at quantifying the fidelity of available models in simulating historical climate condition, and the application of these metrics to most historical model datasets served by C3S. These metrics will make use of observations and reanalyses from the C3S Climate Data Store, and will be translated into quality flags to be used for the selection of the appropriate input to specific applications. This contract will also provide a suite of interactive tools for the generation of both generic products (for example, maps of intra-ensemble variability for different models and scenarios, etc.), and tailored products for at least four economic sectors (including energy and water).