- Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) - GCOS addresses the total climate system including physical, chemical and biological properties, and atmospheric, oceanic, terrestrial, hydrologic, and cryospheric components.
- Global Terrestrial Observing
- Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) - GCOS addresses the total climate system including physical, chemical and biological properties, and atmospheric, oceanic, terrestrial, hydrologic, and cryospheric components.
- Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS) - GTOS is a programme for observations, modelling, and analysis of terrestrial ecosystems to support sustainable development. GTOS facilitates access to information on terrestrial ecosystems so that researchers and policy makers can detect and manage global and regional environmental change.
- International Permafrost Association (IPA) - The International Permafrost Association, founded in 1983, has as its objectives to foster the dissemination of knowledge concerning permafrost and to promote cooperation among persons and national or international organizations engaged in scientific investigation and engineering work on permafrost.
- Changing permafrost in the Arctic and its Global Effects in the 21st Century (PAGE21) - PAGE21 will aim to understand and quantify the vulnerability of permafrost environments to a changing global climate, and to investigate the feedback mechanisms associated with increasing greenhouse gas emissions from permafrost zones.
- Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (CALM) - the CALM (Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring) program was established in the early 1990s. CALM’s goals include monitoring the thickness of the active layer, the temperature in the near-surface layers of the permafrost regions, and surface movements attributable to frost heave and thaw settlement. CALM is among the international permafrost community’s first large-scale efforts to construct a coordinated monitoring program capable of producing d