Skywave Radar Detectability of Volcanic Aerosols

摘要

During 1982 there occurred several incidents in which commercial jet aircraft suffered engine failure over Indonesia as they passed through clouds of dust injected into the stratosphere by an erupting volcano on Java. This paper presents some theoretical estimates of the detectability of such clouds using over-the-horizon skywave radar. The results imply that detection would not be possible with the JINDALEE Stage B radar.