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Thermal database for the Indian region

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A Web-based database system is designed and implemented in this paper which brings out the heat flow map for the Indian region. The Database is linked to carry out the computations and get thermal structure, lithospheric thickness across a few selected regions of India together with the uncertainties associated with the model parameters which can give the error estimate to the associated temperatures. This Web portal allows the user to just click on any region and get the subsurface thermal parameters and the thermal structure of that particular region where ever the data is available. It is developed based on MySQL for database and (Hypertext Preprocessor) PHP scripting language, JavaScript, (Cascading Style Sheets) CSS for application and web page designing, and leaflet for mapping. The data required are compiled from the peer-reviewed published literature, technical reports, and from different thesis on thermal data for the Indian region and stored in a centralized location called the database. The present system is built on the three-tier architecture wherein it has the presentation, application logic, and data management which gives the heat flow values at almost 170 locations in the Indian region and the thermal structure at some locations. Further, the data shall be added to the database for more locations as and when the data is available.

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Name of the Code: Thermal Database.

Developers: Harini and Pavan.

Contact Address: CSIR- National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, 500,007, India.

Email-ID: g.harini07@gmail.com

Year first available: 2020

Hardware Required:

Software required: MySQL, PHP, CSS, Javascript,

Program Language: PHP

Program Size: 10 MB

Details on how to access the source code: The source files of the Thermal database can be downloaded from Github:

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    Harini Guruhappa, V. Pavan Kumar, D. V. Ramana & Kirti Srivastava

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Guruhappa, H., Pavan Kumar, V., Ramana, D.V. et al. Thermal database for the Indian region. Earth Sci Inform 15, 821–829 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-021-00750-y

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