The Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P) is the primary international programme concerned with monitoring the permafrost essential climate variable quantities, being permafrost temperature, active layer thickness and rock glacier velocity. GTN-P was developed by the IPA under the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and the Global Terrestrial Observing Network (GTOS). The GTN-P dataplatform is the free, open-source central database for permafrost observations, with over 1000 borehole measurement sites, 200+ Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (CALM) sites, and a variety of additional datasets including satellite-derived surface temperature, satellite-derived surface soil moisture, and air temperature.
Steering committee
- Dmitry Streletskiy, Chair, USA
- Jeannette Noetzli, Co-Chair, Switzerland
- Sharon Smith, Co-Chair, Canada
- Philippe Schoeneich, France
- Lukas Arenson, Canada
- Saskia Eppinger, Young National Correspondent, Germany
GTN-P Office
– Anna Irrgang, Executive Director
– Tillmann Luebker, Technical Director
– Sebastian Laboor, Lead Engineer & Developer
Advisory Board
- Goncalo Vieira, current IPA president
- Guido Grosse, Germany
- Boris Biskaborn, past GTN-P Director (2014-2018), Germany
- Jerry Brown, past IPA President (2003-2008), USA
- Eduardo Cremonese, Italy
- Hanne H. Christiansen, past IPA President (2016-2020), Norway
- Wilfried Haeberli, Switzerland
- Barry Goodison, Canada
- Margareta Johansson, Sweden
- Hugues Lantuit, Germany
- Paolo Pogliotti, Italy
- Vladimir Romanovsky, USA
GTN-P Workshops
The development of GTN-P has been supported by several workshops: