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IERS Standards

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

D. McCarthy
D. McCarthy*
Affiliation:
U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington 20392

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Due to weather-related travel delays Dr. McCarthy was unable to present his scheduled paper. In his absence, however, Dr. K. Yokoyama, Chairman of the International Earth Rotation Service (IERS), reported on the status of the revision of the IERS Standards carried out by McCarthy who provided the following precis.

These standards are meant to be used in the reduction of observations contributed to the IERS and by those who require IERS estimates of polar motion, Universal Time and nutation to establish the most precise celestial and terrestrial reference systems. The goal of the IERS is to publish the document, an update of the previous version (McCarthy, 1989), in the beginning of 1992.

References

McCarthy, D.D., 1989, IERS Standards, IERS Technical Note 3, Observatoire de Paris, Paris Google Scholar
Guinot, B., 1979, “Basic problems in the kinematics of the rotation of the Earth”, in Time and the Earth’s Rotation, McCarthy, D.D. and Pilkington, J.D. (eds), D. Reidel Publishing Company.Google Scholar