日本北海道大学低温科学研究所成立于1941年11月。它是一个研究寒地环境的自然现象、科学理论及其应用的机构。他们所谓“寒地”的定义不仅包括南极、北极和超过雪线而巍峨耸立的高山顶端,而且还包括那些冬季被朔风寒流所侵袭,土地、河流、海洋因而冻结并被很深的积雪所完全覆盖的地带。这个研究所是由中谷宇吉郎博士所创建的,现任所长为黑岩大助教授。根据一九七八年该所提供的数字,全所人员96名,其中 Japan Hokkaido University Cryogenic Institute of Science was established in November 1941. It is a natural phenomenon of the cold environment, scientific theory and its application. Their definition of “cold” includes not only the Antarctic, the Arctic and the top of a mountain towering above the snow line, but also those areas where the winter was hit by the cold currents of the moon, the land, the rivers and the sea were frozen and completely covered with deep snow Cover the strip. This research institute was created by Dr. Nakatani Yujiro, and the current director is Professor Kuriyama. According to the figures provided by the institute in 1978, there are 96 staff in the institute, among them