Live from the North Pole!
2004 - Two Web Cams, deployed by NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, deployed on April 28 and 29, 2004.

Winter darkness is approaching at the North Pole

Camera 2 showing tents used by the deployment team

	• New! The short Arctic summer of 2004 • The puzzling Arctic summer of 2003 • About the snow and weather conditions in the photos • Daylight and Darkness at the North Pole

	• All images	Current	2003	2002
	• Moods of the North Pole	Current	2003	2002
	• About the environment		2003	2002
	• About the instruments	Current	2003	2002
	• About the web cam		2003	2002
	• Weather data	Current	2003	2002

NOAA/PMEL's North Pole web cam deployments began in April 2002. The web cams operate during the Summer warmth and daylight (April - October) and are redeployed each Spring. The images from the cameras track the North Pole snow cover, weather conditions and the status of PMEL's North Pole instrumentation, which includes meteorological and ice sensors (seen in the camera images). The instruments typically contine to transmit data for months after the solar-powered web cams stop. The North Pole Web Cam team includes Bill Parker, Sigrid Salo, Tracey Nakamura, Nancy Soreide and Jim Overland.

Web Camera provided by Star Dot Technologies with technical support by Vance Kozik. System design by Oceantronics. Camera images are relayed via the Iridium satellite system. Images by NOAA/PMEL. If you wish to use these photographs, please contact arctic.webmaster@noaa.gov

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.