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“During the 5th International Permafrost Conference, held in Trondheim (Norway) in August 1988, the Council of the International Permafrost Association (IPA) authorized the establishment of a Terminology Working Group with the mandate “to develop a set of internationally accepted permafrost terms for use in engineering and science, with equivalents in various languages, and to disseminate and encourage the use of such terminology.”
The Terminology Working Group was established in the fall of 1988, with members from Argentina, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, the USA, and the (former) USSR. Members from Italy, Norway and Sweden were added later. The Canadian Glossary of Permafrost and Related Ground-Ice Terms (Permafrost Subcommittee, Associate Committee on Geotechnical Research, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Technical Memorandum No. 142, 156 p., 1988) formed the basis for a new version of the Glossary compiled by the Terminology Working Group.”
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