This document is intended to define the standard reference systems realized by the International Earth Rotation Service (IERS) and the models and procedures used for this purpose. It is a continuation of the series of documents begun with the Project MERIT Standards (Melbourne et al., 1983) and continued with the IERS Standards (McCarthy, 1989; McCarthy, 1992) and IERS conventions (McCarthy, 1996). The current issue of the IERS Conventions is called ...
This series of publications gives technical information related to the IERS activities, e.g. reference frames, excitation of the Earth rotation, computational or analysis aspects, models, etc. It also contains the description and results of the analyses performed by the IERS Analysis Centres for the Annual Report global analyses.