Greenland vs South America: Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS
Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS over time
- Greenland
- South America
How they compare
Greenland currently reports 152,405 1000 ha against 3,658 1000 ha in South America, a difference of 148,747 1000 ha.
That makes Greenland's figure about 41.7 times South America's.
Across all 5 years both countries report, Greenland has been ahead every year.
Greenland ranks 1st and South America ranks 7th of 42 countries.
Greenland has averaged higher in every one of the 1 decades both report.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls, Greenland or South America?
- Greenland, at 152,405 1000 ha against 3,658 1000 ha in South America as of 2019.
- What is the difference in permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls between Greenland and South America?
- 148,747 1000 ha, with Greenland ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Greenland and South America?
- 5 years are reported by both, from 2015 to 2019.
- How do Greenland and South America rank globally for permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls?
- Greenland ranks 1st and South America ranks 7th of 42 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
The FAOSTAT domain on Land Cover data under the Agri-Environmental Indicators section contains land cover information organized by the land cover classes of the international standard system for Environmental and Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA CF). The land cover information is compiled from publicly available Global Land Cover (GLC) maps: a) MODIS land cover types based on the Land Cover Classification System, LCCS; b) The European Spatial Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) annual land cover maps produced by the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)-Geomatics and now under the European Copernicus Program; c) The annual land cover maps which were produced under the European Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) (CGLS land cover, containing discrete land cover categorization), with spatial resolution 100m; and d) the WorldCover maps of the European Space Agency, produced at 10m resolution.