About the 2011 North Pole Web Cams

The two 2011 web cams were deployed on an ice floe drifting southward from the North Pole in April 2011. In some of the earlier photos you will see members of the North Pole deployment team in action. The Arctic lost sea ice very rapidly in the first half of July. Ice loss slowed in late July-early August, but resumed again later in August.

The stand holding Web cam 1 tilted in the soft snow and melt ponds on July 9, 2011, but did not fall over completely, as you can see in the images. No images were received from Web Cam 1 from Sept 15-21, 2011 due to a temporary lapse in the iridium phone card subscription for the camera, however, this web cam did continue to transmit until winter darkness descended on the North Pole. Web cam 2 fell over on July 23 in the melted snow and ice, after which it viewed only the sky.

       
web cam image web cam image Latest image from camera 1 Last good image from camera 2. 2011-07-23 01:57:34
Deployment Photo
(April 11, 2011)
Deployment Photo
(April 13, 2011)
Latest viewable image from Camera 1: Oct 1, 2011 Last good image from Camera 2: Jul 23, 2011 Watch on YouTube

Web Cam animations:

More data and information:

More Information :

Web cam Home and Acknowledgments
Daylight and Darkness at the North Pole

• All images 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002
• Moods of the North Pole 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002
• About the environment                 2003 2002
• About the instruments 2011 2010   2008       2004 2003 2002
• About the web cam(s) 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005   2003 2002
• Weather data 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002


NSF The North Pole Web Cam is part of the North Pole Environmental Observatory, a joint National Science Foundation-sponsored effort by the Polar Science Center, / APL / UW, the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory / NOAA, the Japan Marine Science and Technology Center, Oregon State University, and Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. Polar Science Center