International Heat Flow Commission (IHFC)

The IHFC is maintaining the Global Heat Flow Database. The commission is also developing and recommending standards and techniques for the determination of all parameters necessary to geothermal research, such as: heat flow, thermal properties of materials, underground temperatures, quantification of geothermal energy resources.
More about us...

Heat Flow?

What is the Earth's heat flow?

All information about the IHFC database.
Latest release: 2024

IHFC & ILP Project 2021-2026

progress: 64%

Structure of IHFC

Bureau, Executive Committee, Committee Representatives and Contacts

All about our working groups
- open for all researchers -

Who are the members?
names - program - activities

Browse through the history of IHFC conferences and read announcements for upcoming meetings

All information about the IHFC database.

Meet us in Lisbon, Portugal, in Aug/Sep 2025