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NEW! - Webcam video for 2006-2007 sea ice season (one image per day): .mov .mp4

The webcam image above is taken by a camera mounted just below the radar on the Kingikmiut School. On a clear day, both Fairway Rock and the Diomede Islands are visible (updated several times per hour). The camera is looking approximately WNW.

Apart from providing a visual impression of the sea-ice conditions off Wales, the primary aim of the camera is to generate images and establish a longer-term record of key dates in the seasonal evolution of the sea-ice cover, in particular: onset of fall ice formation, formation of a stable ice cover, onset of spring melt, appearance of melt ponds, beginning of ice break-up in early summer, removal or advection of sea ice during the summer months. To learn more about the overall relevance of the coastal sea-ice cover, both in the context of climate variability and Inupiat Eskimo subsistence activities, click here