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IERS Message No. 242                                   December 23, 2013
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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 TU Wien.

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.

Gerard Petit and Brian Luzum
IERS Conventions Center


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