Speaker: Ben Norden
The working group « Borehole Temperature and Paleoclimate » is newly formed in 2023. In this working group of the IHFC we try to understand the thermal impact on the subsurface temperature distribution of interactions at the lithosphere, cryosphere, and atmosphere interfaces over time to reveal and constrain past climatic conditions. For this purpose, high-quality continuous temperature data from boreholes are needed. Based on our experiences in the development of the new standards and their implementation for the IHFC Global Heat Flow Database, we are in the process of collecting and re-evaluating accessible subsurface temperature data worldwide. Our overall goal is to provide high quality data sets with continuous temperature and thermal diffusivity profiles along with clearly defined meta-data fields to enable in-depth evaluation for climatic studies on different scales. Along with temperature, the data set should include information on the lithology, stratigraphy, and thermal properties of the drilled succession based on an adequate resolution and made available as open-access publications. If you are interested to join the ongoing discussions or would like to apply with your data set to the « Global Borehole Temperature Database for Paleoclimate Studies » please get in touch with us!
Previous speakers:
- Shaopeng Huang (2000-2023 Borehole Temperature Database)