The CCDS Working Groups

Claudine Thomas

Abstract:	The Comite Consultatif por la Definition de la Seconde (CCDS) deals with the definition and realization of the second, and the establishment and diffusion of the International Atomic Time (TAI) and the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). As other consultative committees, if has created a number of Working Groups in order to advise on specified problems. At present, then exists three CCDS Working Groups: - the CCDS Working Group on TAl, which includes a Sub-Group on GPS and GLONASS Time Transfer Standards, - the CCDS Working Group on Two-Way Satellite Time Transfer, and - the CCDS Working Group on Application of General Relativity to Metrology. This paper gives reports of the work done within the these groups, together with their future actions.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 28th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting December 3 - 5, 1996 Hyatt Regency Reston Town Center Reston, Virginia
Pages:	327 - 334
Cite this article:	Thomas, Claudine, "The CCDS Working Groups," Proceedings of the 28th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting, Reston, Virginia, December 1996, pp. 327-334.
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