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 was designed by 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 to the revision of selected papers in this process.

The Global Heat Flow Data Assessment Project was initiated by the members of the IHFC (read more about this process) and is strongly supported by many scientists of the heat-flow community. Besides the IHFC, it is 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), It is also supported by the teams of the World Heat Flow Database and World Heat Flow Portal projects (both funded by DFG).