Distant early warning systems in the North American Arctic

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Chasen, Robert E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1967
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Arctic; Baffin Island; Greenland; Foxe Basin; Dyer; Cape Dyer; Baffin; Davis Strait; Ice Sheet; Iceland; North Atlantic; Polar Record; Thule; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400058149; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400058149

The Distant Early Warning System (DEWLine) is a network of radar and communications stations stretching for some 3600 miles along the 69th parallel from Cape Lisburne, Alaska, to Cape Dyer, Baffin Island, and continuing across Davis Strait and the Greenland ice sheet to the east coast of Greenland....