SUBSONIC AIRCRAFT - CONTRAIL AND CLOUD EFFECTS SPECIAL STUDY (SUCCESS)

The Subsonic Aircraft: Contrail and Cloud Effects Special Study (SUCCE SS) was a multi-aircraft field campaign which took place in April and May of 1996, over the Central and Western United States. The goal of S UCCESS was to learn more about Earth's radiative heat balance, cirrus clouds, aircraft exhaust, heterogeneous atmospheric chemistry and thei r interactions with each other. The SUCCESS results will be addressed in a series of Special Sections of Geophysical Research Letters over t he next few months. Here we provide an overview of these Special Secti ons.