Bibliographic details:

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)

Please note:

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 IERS Conventions Center. It is not definitive nor officially approved.

IERS Technical Note 32: IERS Conventions (2003) (PDF, 1MB, Not barrier-free file.)

Table of Contents

IERS Technical Note 32: Front matter (PDF, 45KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 32: Table of Contents (PDF, 68KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 32: Introduction (PDF, 94KB, Not barrier-free file.)

Chapter 1

IERS Technical Note 32: 1. General Definitions and Numerical Standards (PDF, 208KB, Not barrier-free file.)

Chapter 2

IERS Technical Note 32: 2. Conventional Celestial Reference System and Frame (PDF, 160KB, Not barrier-free file.)

Chapter 3

IERS Technical Note 32: 3. Conventional Dynamical Realization of the ICRS (PDF, 162KB, Not barrier-free file.)

Chapter 4

IERS Technical Note 32: 4. Conventional Terrestrial Reference System and Frame (PDF, 419KB, Not barrier-free file.)

Chapter 5

IERS Technical Note 32: 5. Transformation Between the Celestial and Terrestrial
Systems (PDF, 408KB, Not barrier-free file.)

Chapter 6

IERS Technical Note 32: 6. Geopotential (PDF, 246KB, Not barrier-free file.)

Chapter 7

IERS Technical Note 32: 7. Displacement of Reference Points (PDF, 340KB, Not barrier-free file.)

Chapter 8

IERS Technical Note 32: 8. Tidal Variations in the Earth’s Rotation (PDF, 166KB, Not barrier-free file.)

Chapter 9

IERS Technical Note 32: 9. Tropospheric Model (PDF, 159KB, Not barrier-free file.)

Chapter 10

IERS Technical Note 32: 10. General Relativistic Models for Space-time Coordinates and
Equations of Motion (PDF, 199KB, Not barrier-free file.)

Chapter 11

IERS Technical Note 32: 11. General Relativistic Models for Propagation (PDF, 214KB, Not barrier-free file.)

Appendix

IERS Technical Note 32: A) IAU Resolutions Adopted at the XXIVth General Assembly (PDF, 206KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 32: B) Glossary (PDF, 48KB, Not barrier-free file.)

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