Nome Sea Ice Radar
The image above was acquired by an 25 kW X-band marine radar mounted on a power pole on the port causeway. Images are updated every 4 minutes. The video shows the last 24 hours of data and is updated every hour.
Past imagery and animations can be found in our google drive archive here
If you’d like to know more the radar and how it works, visit our observatory page that has info on our coastal radars.
Nome Sea Ice Webcam
In addition to providing a visual impression of the sea-ice conditions off oberservatoy locations, webcam images establish a longer-term record of key dates in the seasonal evolution of the sea-ice cover, such as: 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.
Last 24 Hours
Apart from providing a visual impression of the sea-ice conditions off Nome, these images establish a longer-term record of key dates in the seasonal evolution of the sea-ice cover, such as: 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.
Please send comments to: uaf-icecam@alaska.edu
We are grateful to the City of Nome for the providing the space, telecommunication support, and heavy radar lifting.
The Nome Sea Ice Radar is supported as part of the Integrated System for Operations in Polar Sea (ISOPS) through a collaborative project between UAF and the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (US Department of the Army BAA W912HZ-20-BAA-01).