IERS Conventions 2010: Additional material (Page under development)

This page presents material that complement the IERS Conventions but which are not part of them.  They are provided as additional information, such as test cases, technical notes written by contributors to the Conventions, etc.  They are not subject to the same review process as the Conventions chapters and associated programs and subroutines.

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  • Introduction.
    Additional documents and links:
    • TBD.
  • Chapter 1 - General definitions and numerical standards.
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    • TBD.
  • Chapter 2 - Conventional celestial reference system and frame.
    Additional documents and links:
    • TBD.
  • Chapter 3 - Conventional dynamical realization of the ICRS.
    Additional documents and links:
    • TBD.
  • Chapter 4 - Terrestrial reference systems and frames.
    Additional documents and links:
    • TBD.

  • Chapter 5 - Transformation between the International Terrestrial Reference System and Geocentric Celestial Reference System.
    Additional documents and links:
    • Example application of the IAU 2000 resolutions concerning Earth orientation and rotation provided by Patrick Wallace.
    • For additional info related to the transformation between systems, see also the site of the IAU Division 1 working group (2003-2006) Nomenclature for Fundamental Astronomy (NFA), with more explanatory material here.

  • Chapter 6 - Geopotential.
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    • The IERS Conventions (2003) ocean tides model CSR 3.0 is presented in the 1995 memo "THE CSR 3.0 GLOBAL OCEAN TIDE MODEL: DIURNAL AND SEMI-DIURNAL OCEAN TIDES FROM TOPEX/POSEIDON ALTIMETRY" by Richard J. Eanes and Srinivas Bettadpur.
    • The ocean tides model FES2004 described in the IERS Conventions (2010) is presented in the paper "Modelling the global ocean tides: modern insights from FES2004" by F. Lyard et al. (2006). Additional information is provided in a presentation at the IERS Conventions workshop.

  • Chapter 7 - Displacement of reference points.
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    • Report by Duncan Agnew on the version dated June 2008 of the routine hardisp.f to compute the displacement due to ocean tidal loading.

  • Chapter 8 - Tidal variations in the Earth's rotation.
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    • TBD.

  • Chapter 9 - Models for atmospheric propagation delays.
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    • Report by Flavien Mercier on the influence of non synchroneous phase measurements on the ionospheric correction in DORIS.

  • Chapter 10 - General relativistic models for space-time coordinates and equations of motion.
    Additional documents and links:
    • TBD.
  • Chapter 11 - General relativistic models for propagation.
    Additional documents and links:
    • TBD.
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