Sustained provision of historical climate forcings for CMIP

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COP2_001 Sustained Operational Provision of Historical Climate Forcings for CMIP and Wider Applications

C3S and CAMS aim to support the climate forcings community with the transition to a sustained mode of operation. A key element of this goal is to support the needs of non‑CMIP users that require near‑current historical forcing data, with appropriate long-term support for dataset versions deemed fit for specific purposes. This Invitation to Tender (ITT) is a first step towards this vision, and will establish an operational infrastructure layer supporting sustained, high‑quality, regularly extended climate forcing datasets for the historical to near-present period, while also scoping and producing a longer-term vision for future historical forcings provision. This will ensure that the infrastructure, quality control, documentation, and regular extension of existing forcing datasets become continuous activities and complement the well-established forcings research activities which support CMIP.