WebA zoomed-in view of the DYE-2 radar station from 31,000' MSL, at local sunrise. The bright feature behind and to the left of the radar dome is the top of an enormous snow drift, illuminated somewhat dramatically by the low sun. The massive facility is a Cold War relic of the U.S. military and was abandoned decades ago, along with its sister ... WebDye-2 is a relic of the Cold War situated slightly to the west of the top ridge of the Greenland inland ice. Dye-2 is one of 58 "Distance Early Warning Line" (DEW) radar stations built by the USA between 1955-1957 across Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Iceland. Their powerful radars monitored the skies constantly in case the Soviet Union decided ...
Ashburn, VA Weather Radar AccuWeather
The DEW Line became operational on August 13, 1957, with "CINCNORAD...operational control of the Cape Lisburne-Cape Dyer" radar stations as with other air defense elements. On June 30, 1958, the Eastern DEW Extension had 4 stations and there were 4 DER & 4 AEW&C aircraft operating for the Atlantic Barrier and on July 19, 1958, DYE 1 (DYE 4 on August 3) was begun by Western Electric using helicopter-assisted sealift at the coasts and airlift from Sondrestrom Air B… WebThe DYE-2 radar station, on the southern Greenland ice sheet about 100 miles east of Kangerlussuaq. Part of the Cold War-era Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line across the … tspsc group 1 paper
Abandoned DYE-2 radar station. ESPO Data Archive - NASA
WebThis expedition will visit the American Dye 2 early warning station, located smack in the middle of the Greenland Glacier. ... At some point we take a rest day and visit the Dye 2 radar station located in the middle of the Ice Cap. A must see. This is a mental shift to the second half of our journey, although not quite halfway in distance. http://greenlandtoday.com/dye-2-a-relic-from-a-not-so-distant-past/?lang=en WebA widespread, deadly, and historic [note 1] tornado outbreak affected large portions of the Midwestern, Southern and Eastern United States on the last day of March and the first of April, the result of an extratropical cyclone that also produced blizzard conditions in the Upper Midwest. Approximately 28 million people were under tornado watches ... phish covers grateful dead