Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS in Melanesia

Melanesia: Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS was 0 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
0 1000 ha
World rank
48th
of 52 countries
All-time high
0 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
0 1000 ha
in 2015
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS in Melanesia, 2015–2019

00.20.40.60.812015201720192015: 0 1000 ha2016: 0 1000 ha2017: 0 1000 ha2018: 0 1000 ha2019: 0 1000 ha

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.

Analysis

The most recent figure for permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls in Melanesia is 0 1000 ha, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.

Melanesia ranks 48th of 52 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.

Countries ranked near Melanesia

  1. 45 Armenia 0.08 1000 ha compare
  2. 46 Slovenia 0.04 1000 ha compare
  3. 47 Albania 0.01 1000 ha compare
  4. 48 Montenegro 0 1000 ha compare
  5. 48 Caribbean 0 1000 ha compare
  6. 48 Micronesia 0 1000 ha compare
  7. 48 Polynesia 0 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls in Melanesia?
Permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls in Melanesia was 0 1000 ha in 2019, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls recorded in Melanesia?
The highest recorded value was 0 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls recorded in Melanesia?
The lowest recorded value was 0 1000 ha in 2015.
How does Melanesia rank for permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls?
Melanesia ranks 48th out of 52 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Melanesia data come from?
The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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About this data

Indicator
Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
77 places, 385 data points, 2015–2019
Last refreshed

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.