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 designing an interface between the C3S Climate Data Store (CDS) Toolbox and the WPS (Web Processing Service) processes running at the ESGF (Earth System Grid Federation) nodes, to provide diagnostics based on the climate projection datasets available in the CMIP and CORDEX archives. This contract builds on the WPS framework already developed by the partners in previous contracts. The objective of this framework agreement is to provide a reliable and robust WPS service by addressing three key areas: the low-level operations will be thoroughly tested, the processes will be pre-tested against a significant sample of the input datasets, and the deployed architecture will be resilient and scalable. It will build a comprehensive system for validating the mathematical operations and testing the processes against a significant coverage of the supported datasets and hence will focus on the quality-assured subset of CMIP and CORDEX data already supported by other C3S contracts. A significant strength of the solution developed in this Framework Agreement is its compatibility with the CDS toolbox design and technical implementation: close collaboration with the C3S CDS team ensures that the outcome of this contract will be useable in the CDS infrastructure, on CDS data, from the beginning.