A global collaborative project for the authenticated global heat flow database
- Our vision: Providing a quality controlled, authenticated global heat flow database
- Collaborative and volunteering – share your local experiences for the global benefit
- 95+ scientists from 36 countries already support this project
What is the task?
The Global Heat Flow Data Assessment Project is designed to provide a quality controlled, authenticated global database of heat flow values and other thermal data. This project supports the International Heat Flow Commission (IHFC) whose mission includes promoting geothermal research and maintaining and disseminating the Global Heat Flow Database to the global community of Earth scientists. To this end, screening, assessing, and updating each data entry compiled in the Global Heat Flow Database since 1939 is required. All project collaborators contribute with the revision of selected papers in this process.
Who we are!
The Global Heat Flow Data Assessment Project was initiated by the members of the IHFC (read more about this process), coordinated and led by the Task Force VIII “Lithospheric Heat Flow – Global Data Assessment Project” of the International Lithosphere Program (ILP; funded by IUGG and IUGS) and strongly supported by many scientists of the heat-flow community. It is also side-kicked by the World Heat Flow Database project (WHDB project, funded by DFG).
ILP Task Force Leaders:
All ILP Task Force Leaders can be contacted in terms of the assessment project. Each one of the six is managing the revision of publications from a different region. To get support with the publications you are revising, please, contact the person in charge of the region of your specific interest:
Sven Fuchs (IHFC profile: Central/Northern Europe, Russia (European part)
Massimo Verdoya(IHFC profile): Central/Southern Europe, North Africa, Middle East
Raquel Negrete Aranda (IHFC profile): Eastern Pacific, Western part of America
Shaowen Liu (IHFC profile): Asia
Robert Harris (IHFC profile): Caribbean, Atlantic
Graeme Beardsmore: Australia/Oceania
All remaining regions and general questions: contact For questions to marine measurements, you can also contact: Florian Neumann, who works in the WHFD project.
Contributors (05 February 2023th) - now: 96 The project was kicked-off with the commitment of 66 scientists.
Names with on-going revisions are marked in bold. Names with finished revisions are listed below (Global Heat Flow Assessment Group 2024).
Carlos Henrique Alexandrino, Irina Artemieva, Elif Balkan-Pazvantoğlu, Niels Balling, Graeme Beardsmore, Hugo Beltrami, Vladimir Cermak, Chi-Hsuan Chen, Paolo Chiozzi, Avinash Kumar Chouhan, William Colgan, Juan Contreras, Francisco Cuesta-Valero, Juan Luis Carrillo de la Cruz, Chris Dalby, Petr Dedecek, Dmitry Demezhko, Ana Paulina Anguiano Dominguez, Helmut Duerrast, Mark Duffett, Maria Rosa Alves Duque , Ricarda Dziadek, Orlando Miguel Espinoza-Ojeda, Florian Forster, Andrea Förster, Sven Fuchs, Rob Funnell, Roberto Gambini, Xiang Gao, Almudena García-Garcia, Ed Gerner, Gianluca Gola, Fidel González-Rouco, William D. Gosnold, Jiang Guangzheng, Marek Hajto, Valiya Hamza, Robert Harris, Derrick Hasterok, Marcus Haynes, Lijuan He, Shengbiao Hu, Shaopeng Huang, Alan M. Jessop, Argo Joeleht, John Jong, Norbert Kaul, Mikhail Khutorskoy, Thomas Kohl, Ilmo T. Kukkonen, Youngmin Lee, Tien C. Lee, Shaowen Liu, Mazlan Madon, Ignacio Marzan, Chris Matthews, Sandra McLaren, Christian Müller, Ana Maria Negredo Moreno, Raquel Negrete Aranda, Florian Neumann, Ben Norden, Matt O'Regan, Cristina Pauselli, Mirja Pavić, Nagaraju Podugu, Marco Pola, Jeffrey Poort, Rosa Maria Prol Ledesma, Dušan Rajver, Tim Rawling, Labani Ray, Itay Reznik, Maria Richards, Frédérique Rolandone, Sukanta Roy, Ladislaus Rybach, Jan Safanda, Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth, Anya Seward, Xiaobin Shi, Irina Siderova, Sigurbj, Jared Smith, Tobias Staal, Carol Stein, James Stenhouse, Christian Stranne, Akiko Tanaka, Ole Gunnar Tveiten, Guzel Vakhitova, Massimo Verdoya, Jyun-Nai Wu, Makoto Yamano , Vladimir Zui
Figure 1: Contributors from 37 countries around the globe (Projection: ESRI Sphere_Winkel_II, WKID: 53019)
What you can do?
Become a member of the international and collaborative initiative and contribute to the vision by:
- Reading the paper on the new database structure and field definitions [link] and the review guidelines [link]
- Selecting the publications you want to review online [link]
- Reviewing the publications and updating the associated database entries [link (Release 2023)] by using our template [link]
- Uploading the results [link]
- … starting at point one again :=)
Beyond this, we appreciate your suggestions and comments for further improvements of the IHFC service to the community.
Need instant help with assessment?
Beside the ILP Task Force leaders that act as regional assessment managers (see above), we are offering instant support via skype. Call 
Sven Fuchs via skype, start a chat or write an email to arrange an appointment or to agree on another platform. You can also call Florian Neumann, who is leading the assessment of marine data.
What is your benefit?
Providing reviewed heat-flow data for the community enables in-depth investigations on different scales for different applications. Due to the overwhelming number of heat-flow values worldwide, every single contribution is essential. Therefore, each contributor of an accepted publication revision/update (according to workflow and rules outlined in the guideline), is automatically invited to co-author the database release (data publication), where data revised by him/her/them are published for the first time. Therein, all authors are listed as part of the ‘Global Heat Flow Data Assessment Group’. The next data release is planned for January 2024. The 2023 data release can be found here.
Global Heat Flow Data Assessment Group 2024 (will be periodically updated)Sven Fuchs, Ben Norden, Florian Neumann, Elif Pazvantoğlu, ...Global Heat Flow Data Assessment Group 2023
Fuchs, Sven; Neumann, Florian; Norden, Ben; Beardsmore, Graeme; Chiozzi, Paolo; Colgan, William; Anguiano Dominguez, Ana Paulina; Duque, Maria Rosa Alves; Ojeda Espinoza, Orlando Miguel; Forster, Florian; Förster, Andrea; Fröhder, Robert; Fuentes, Karina; Hajto, Marek; Harris, Robert; Jõeleht, Argo; Liebing, Helena; Liu, Shaowen; Lüdtke, Gwendolin; Madon, Mazlan; Negrete-Aranda, Raquel; Poort, Jeffrey; Reznik, Itay J.; Riedel, Michael; Rolandone, Frédérique; Stål, Tobias; Verdoya, Massimo; Wu, Jyun-Nai
Spread the word
Spread the word and inform your colleagues about this project. The more hands and brains, the quicker the global lithospheric research community could benefit from an updated and quality-controlled global database! Help us to make this project a success for everyone. Talk about the project in social (scientific) media and link to us.
the Global Heat Flow Day - online live support
We organize a 24hrs around the globe virtual live #support session to help researchers get into the #assessment of the global heat flow database. During that events you can easily learn about the new data structure and get introduced to converting your heat flow research data toward the new database requirements. The first Global Heat Flow Day took place on 22 Feb 2022. The next one will be hold on 23 Feb 2023. Join our community action to make a difference for geo-scientists around the world who rely on reliable high-quality research data.
