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The IERS EOP 14C04 solution for Earth orientation parameters consistent with ITRF 2014

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The Earth Orientation Center of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) has the task to provide the scientific community with the international reference time series of Earth orientation parameters (EOP), referred to as IERS EOP C04 or C04. These series result from a combination of operational EOP series derived from VLBI, GNSS, SLR, and DORIS. The C04 series were updated to provide EOP series consistent with the set of station coordinates of the ITRF 2014. The new C04, referred to as IERS EOP 14C04, is aligned onto the most recent versions of the conventional reference frames (ITRF 2014 and ICRF2). Additionally, the combination algorithm was revised to include an improved weighting of the intra-technique solutions. Over the period 2010–2015, differences to the IVS combination exhibit standard deviations of 40 \(\upmu \)as for nutation and 10 \(\upmu \)s for UT1. Differences to the IGS combination reveal a standard deviation of 30 \(\upmu \)as for polar motion. The IERS EOP 14C04 was adopted by the IERS directing board as the IERS reference series by February 1, 2017.

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  1. A test done on SLR satellite by Frank Reinquin (CNES) has shown that the C04 combination without intensive values causes large outliers in satellite orbit, personal communication.

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The authors are grateful to N. Stamatakos and Z. Altamimi for their validation and analyses of the 14C04 solution; to D. Gambis, C. Hackman, J. Ray, Z. Malkin, E. Pavlis, and A. Nothnagel for their useful comments. This work was financially supported by CNES, through the TOSCA program, and by the Scientific Council of the Paris Observatory.

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    Christian Bizouard, Sébastien Lambert, Olivier Becker & Jean-Yves Richard

  2. Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux, Paris, France

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Bizouard, C., Lambert, S., Gattano, C. et al. The IERS EOP 14C04 solution for Earth orientation parameters consistent with ITRF 2014. J Geod 93, 621–633 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-018-1186-3

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