Research aircraft returns to volcanic ash plume
Where have you heard
this before?
The same team flew out to the plume's expected location on Thursday, but did not find the ash. Although this outcome was negative, this does necessarily mean the ash clouds are not dispersing as the models predict - further investigation is needed.
Those darned model predictions again!
What do Twiggy and Naomi know about all this anyway?
Ahhh, Perhaps this is why?
The Dornier is normally used for low-altitude remote sensing of the land and atmosphere using instruments such as radar and lidar - the latter is like radar but uses lasers instead of sound waves to build up a picture of distant objects. Atmospheric sampling work like this mission is normally the job of another aircraft, the Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurement's (FAAM) BAe-146.