The CLARE'98 campaign and its context

CLARE'98 was the Cloud Lidar and Radar Experiment airborne and ground-based campaign carried out in October 1998. A general introduction on the wider context of this campaign and on the Earth Radiation Mission is first given, followed by a summary of the participating instruments, aircraft, institut es and the structure of the campaign. The most extensively studied flight i s presented, together with some of its most relevant results. The major res ults and conclusions of the overall campaign are then discussed.