International Heat Flow Commission Celebrates 40 Years

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Jan 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004eostr..85r..13c&link_type=abstract

EOS Transactions, AGU, Volume 85, Issue 2, p. 13-19

Physics

Geophysics

History Of Geophysics: Tectonophysics, Tectonophysics: Heat Generation And Transport, Tectonophysics: Instruments And Techniques

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The outflow of heat from the Earth's interior is, in terms of energy, the most impressive terrestrial phenomenon. Its present rate of about 10⊃21 joules per year is order-of-magnitudes greater than the energy dissipation of earthquakes or heat loss from volcanic eruptions. The study of the Earth's internal heat plays an important role in understanding the Earth's origin, internal constitution,and plate tectonics. The thermal structure of the Earth, generally referred to as the geothermics, or also as the (terrestrial) heat flow, has been studied for a long time. However,modern geothermics,one of the fundamental geophysical disciplines, is relatively young.The International Heat Flow Commission (IHFC), under which the academic geothermal research on the international scale is organized,was created only in 1963. The IHFC, operating under the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI),covers a broad scope of geophysical studies, and links the activities of other associations of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). These are the International Association of the Physical Sciences of the Ocean (IAPSO), the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI), and the International Association of the Hydrological Sciences (IAHS). Geothermal research is further related to a number of geological, hydrogeological, and geochemical investigations covered by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). In their practical applications, the heat flow studies are in general related to the mission of the International Geothermal Association (IGA).

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