Research and development services and related consultancy services

Tender description

This invitation to tender (ITT) aimed at selecting use cases to bring about success stories of the uptake of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) products to spin-up sustainable applications and businesses. Based on a market analysis, the contractor should develop and demonstrate an end-to-end application based on C3S products and the tools provided by the Climate Data Store (CDS) infrastructure. The objective of such contracts is to create downstream applications at the service of users based on C3S data and the associated infrastructure. This contract award notice lists the contractors for Round 3 of the ITT. The contractor for contract No ECMWF/COPERNICUS/2019/C3S_428e_ASSIMILA will develop and market a tool to allow users, manufacturers and Governments to estimate the time taken for a biopesticide to control insect populations in specific scenarios and hence the latest date that a biopesticide could be applied whilst still being effective. The tool combines temperature data from ERA5, delivered via the CDS, with biological models of insect development and biopesticide efficacy. It will predict the ‘time-to-kill’, based upon location and time of application, using climatologies and data from individual years to show where applications will be most reliable. The potential for CDS Seasonal forecasts to contribute to in-season guidance will also be explored. This will allow regulators, users and manufacturers to plan for expansion in usage. The contractor for contract No ECMWF/COPERNICUS/2019/C3S_428g_FMI will develop a service to assess and assist with the survival of coniferous forests in northern latitudes, which are at risk with the advance of climate change. Hotter and drier climate will drain the natural defences of trees while also favouring reproduction of their main enemies – bark beetles – both of which may potentially lead to a lower value of wood products and stands. Meanwhile catastrophic events like forest fires are also likely to become more frequent because of dead trees by bark beetle outbreaks. The potential service will assess past, current and future risks to forest health, based on the integration of data from the Copernicus Climate Data Store (CDS) to forest specific data. CDS products used for this purpose will include the recently added ERA5 reanalysis and Euro-CORDEX regional climate projections.