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IERS Message No. 238                                    October 08, 2013
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Summary and presentations of IERS Retreat 2013


On 23 and 24 May 2013, the IERS held a retreat of its Directing Board
and invited specialists at Paris, France. The aim of this meeting was to
establish directions for the IERS over next decade that will ensure its
core role is met. The overall theme was to maintain the quality and
regularity of the IERS' products and to ensure that the service
continues to meet the needs of all of its users.

The retreat covered the following sessions:

Session 1: Move towards "real-time" products
Session 2: Rigorous combined products
Session 3: Long-term stability and parameterization of the reference
   frame
Session 4: Next Generation of models and Center-of-Mass products
Session 5: EOP prediction improvements
Session 6: Unification of product formats
Session 7: Mechanisms for IERS evolution.

A summary of the IERS Retreat, prepared by Tom Herring, IERS Analysis
Coordinator, and the presentations are now available at

http://www.iers.org/Retreat2013


Kind regards,
IERS Central Bureau


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