The Global Thermal Property Compilation Project is designed to provide a quality-controlled, authenticated global database of crustal and lithospheric thermal rock property 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 Thermal Property Database to the global community of Earth scientists. To this end, screening, assessing, and compiling data from each literfature source is required. All project collaborators contribute to the collection and compilation of selected papers in this process.

The Global Thermal Property Compilation (GTPC) Project was initiated by the members of the IHFC and is strongly supported by many scientists of the geoscientific community. Besides the IHFC, it is coordinated and led by the Task Force 2026-TG8 om “Lithospheric Thermal Properties – Data Standardization and Compilation 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).