Research and development services and related consultancy services

Tender description

This ITT, entitled ‘Development of greenhouse gas aspects in the global CAMS system’, is for providing support for and further development of the Global Production System of CAMS operated at ECMWF, which delivers 3D distributions of greenhouse gases (CO2 and CH4) in the troposphere and stratosphere through data assimilation and numerical modelling. This ITT, entitled ‘Development of greenhouse gas aspects in the global CAMS system’, is for providing support for and further development of the Global Production System of CAMS operated at ECMWF, which delivers 3D distributions of greenhouse gases (CO2 and CH4) in the troposphere and stratosphere through data assimilation and numerical modelling. The successful tenderer shall deliver an improved representation of methane fluxes from natural wetlands for use in the CAMS Global Production System with a focus on wetland extent and wetland type. The successful tenderer shall also adapt, implement, and evaluate a radiative transfer model for solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) for future use of satellite observations of SIF to evaluate and optimize the land surface model used in the CAMS Global Production System. In addition, the successful tenderer shall deliver memoranda and reports to document the requested developments and provide expertise to the team working on the global production system at ECMWF regarding greenhouse-gas aspects. The ITT targets organisations with considerable experience in the field of CH4 emissions from wetlands including the use of near-real time remote sensing observations to estimate wetland extent, the classification of wetland types, and more generally the representation of wetland emissions of CH4 in global models. Experience with the modelling of SIF radiative transfer to exploit satellite observations is also required.