Author: Gérard Petit (IERS Conventions Center)

Information on the updates to the IERS Conventions (2010)

The IERS Conventions Center informs of the following updates, see http://tai.bipm.org/iers/convupdt/convupdt.html :

10 June 2013

Chapter 7: The subroutine DEHANTTIDEINEL.F is corrected for a bug that occurred at the update dated 26 March 2012 (noted by D. Ferguson). The potential error is below 0.1 mm.

Chapter 9: The subroutine GPT2.F has been updated for consistency with the version at TUWien.

20 December 2013

Chapter 5: Report the yearly update fcnnut130701 to the Free Core Nutation model

Chapter 7: The subroutine TDFRPH.F used in the HARDISP package is corrected for an error in the test case

The USNO web site http://maia.usno.navy.mil/conv2010/convupdt.html is being similarly updated.

Gérard Petit and Brian Luzum

IERS Conventions Center

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