Research and development services and related consultancy services

Tender description

ECMWF, as the Entrusted Entity for the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), invites tenders for the operational access to global and regional climate projections and predictions from ESGF. The Copernicus Climate Data Store (CDS, https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu) is the C3S infrastructure providing user access to its wide range of climate data. The CDS catalogue includes a large set of climate projections created with Global and Regional Climate Models (GCMs and RCMs), as part of the World Climate Research Programme’s (WCRP) Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) and Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX). CMIP and CORDEX archive the model-simulation data at nodes of the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF). C3S performs additional quality control on these datasets, at these nodes, and the subset of the data thus selected is provided to users via the CDS. The technical solution ensuring the data provision relies on three European ESGF nodes (operated by STFC, IPSL and DKRZ, respectively) which jointly provide continued and efficient access to the climate model data they host, as well as support to users of the CDS interface. This ITT covers the service underpinning the access to the ESGF-hosted data published in the CDS, using technical solutions already in place at the outset of the contract. Access to data included in the CDS catalogue and the operation and maintenance of related software, connected to the CDS, will form the object of this activity.