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IERS CONVENTIONS (2003)Dennis D. McCarthy
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IERS Conventions (2003). Dennis D. McCarthy and Gérard Petit. (IERS Technical Note ; 32) Frankfurt am Main: Verlag des Bundesamts für Kartographie und Geodäsie, 2004. 127 pp., paperback, ISBN 3-89888-884-3 (print version)
After the completion of Conventions (2003), work has started to prepare future updates. The updated version of the IERS Conventions is available as a working version at http://tai.bipm.org/iers/convupdt/convupdt.html. It is not definitive nor officially approved.
Technical Note No. 32 is available in the form of PDF files. You may view/download the document completely or by chapters. To read the texts, you need Acrobat Reader, which is free and may be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. Acrobat Reader comes also with many new browsers as plug-in, so that it may be already installed at your computer.
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General Definitions and Numerical Standards
Conventional Celestial Reference System and Frame
Conventional Dynamical Realization of the ICRS
Conventional Terrestrial Reference System and Frame
Transformation Between the Celestial and Terrestrial Systems
Displacement of Reference Points
Tidal Variations in the Earth's Rotation
General Relativistic Models for Space-time Coordinates and Equations of Motion
General Relativistic Models for Propagation
