Research and development services and related consultancy services

Tender description

ECMWF, as the Entrusted Entity for the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), issued a contract for services related to operational service provision. ECMWF, as the Entrusted Entity for the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), issued a contract for services related to operational service provision. The objective of this framework agreement is to develop an operational climate change service that exploits data produced by C3S and generates knowledge required for assessing present risks stemming from extreme weather and climate related events. The service will inform the implementation of the Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction 2015-2030, the multi-hazard risk assessments by the EU civil protection mechanism, and climate change adaptation strategies and plans. It builds upon the concept of integration of climate datasets (ERA5, ERA5-land, UERRA) available in the CDS and ERA5 downscaled at about 2 km on a set of relevant European cities. All the integrated data sources will be exploited to develop a catalogue of high impact weather events and combine these with observed damage and loss records from public repositories such as Sendai Monitor, EMDAT and Desinventar.