Research and development services and related consultancy services

Tender description

ECMWF as the Entrusted Entity for the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has issued contracts for providing access to climate projections at global and regional level, developing multi-model products focussed on projected values of Essential Climate Variables (ECVs), assessing the potential benefit of improving specific aspects in the production of climate projections (e.g. with respect to the standards specified in international inter-comparison projects), and filling recognized gaps in the production of regional projections. A common goal across the C3S activities is a comprehensive assessment of the projection uncertainties, with reliable estimations of the roles played by different emission scenarios, global and regional model formulation, and internal climate variability. These contracts are dedicated to the provision and assessment of regional projections produced with regional climate models (RCMs) for different emission scenarios (using an appropriate set of GCM lateral boundary forcings), to be developed as a part of the Service. The contract awarded under Lot 1 is concerned with providing technical solutions to access data from existing RCM simulations and boundary conditions with future experiments; the one awarded under Lot 2 will support a new and well-coordinated set of simulations for the European domain and its scientific exploitation.