Author: IERS Rapid Service/Prediction Center
Subject: Earth Orientation Contributions to IERS Bulletin A
Date: 28 Nov 13


In this report, individual Earth orientation time series are compared
to the IERS Bulletin A combination.  For further information, including
the raw time series, refer to http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/earth-orientation/
eo-info/general. 

The first table below shows some comparison results for those series
included in Bulletin A during the last 30 days.  All data are aligned to
the system defined the ITRF and the ICRF reference frames by removing
a priori mean bias and rate.

Units: milliseconds of arc for x, y; milliseconds of time for UT1-UTC

Contributor   Latest      #         Mean          Standard Deviation
Series         Day               (series-BullA)
                                x     y  UT1-UTC    x     y  UT1-UTC

GSI Int.     56620.27     5               0.007               0.009

GSFC Int.    56622.79    25               0.002               0.010

USNO Int.    56622.79    25               0.004               0.007

IAA VLBI     56609.21     9  -0.18 -0.18 -0.001   0.10  0.14  0.008

GSFC VLBI    56609.21     9  -0.05 -0.06  0.001   0.10  0.08  0.003

USNO VLBI    56609.21     9  -0.31 -0.54  0.007   0.24  0.17  0.009

IVS  VLBI    56609.21    11   0.08 -0.09 -0.003   0.08  0.10  0.003

ILRS SLR     56622.50    29  -0.18  0.35          0.13  0.19

IAA SLR      56622.41    30   0.13 -0.07          0.23  0.17

MCC SLR      56619.00    28   0.00  0.07          0.18  0.10

IGS Final    56612.50    30   0.00  0.00          0.01  0.01

IGS Rapid    56623.50    11   0.00  0.00          0.02  0.02

             ---        ---               ---                 ---

IGS Ultra    56624.00     2   0.00  0.00          0.01  0.01

             56624.00     5               0.000*              0.002*

USNO GPS     56624.25    32               0.000*              0.017*

NCEP AAM     56631.50    15               0.000               0.003

* All satellite techniques provide information on the rate of change of
  Universal Time contaminated by effects due to unmodelled orbit node
  motion.  VLBI-based results have been used to minimize drifts in UT
  estimates.


The following table shows comparisons for other related time series during
the last 30 days.  No systematic corrections have been applied.

Units: milliseconds of arc for x, y; milliseconds of time for UT, LOD 

              Latest   #              Mean                Standard Deviation
Series         Day               (series-BullA)
                             x     y     UT     LOD     x     y      UT    LOD 

IGS Final    56612.5  30   0.00  0.02  0.002* 0.000*  0.03  0.03  0.009* 0.017*

IGS Rapid    56622.5  30   0.00  0.01  0.009*-0.001*  0.04  0.04  0.033* 0.015*

IGS Ultra    56623.25 120  0.00  0.01  0.003* 0.005*  0.04  0.04  0.038* 0.043*

Bulletin B   56566.0  30   0.00  0.00 -0.003          0.02  0.02  0.009

08C04        56594.0  30   0.01  0.00 -0.002          0.02  0.02  0.010


Plots of the residuals are available at http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/
earth-orientation/eo-products/weekly.
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