What is the difference between Svalbard and Jan Mayen?

Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean under the sovereignty of Norway, but is subject to the special status granted by the Svalbard Treaty. Jan Mayen is a remote island in the Arctic Ocean; it has no permanent population and is administered by the County Governor of Nordland.

What is a Svalbard & Jan Mayen islands?

The United Nations Statistics Division also uses this code, but has named it the Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands. Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean under the sovereignty of Norway, but is subject to the special status granted by the Svalbard Treaty.

What is Svalbard & Jan Mayen in ISO 3166-2?

ISO 3166-2:SJ is the entry for Svalbard and Jan Mayen in ISO 3166-2, a system for assigning codes to subnational administrative divisions. However, further subdivision for Svalbard and Jan Mayen occurs under Norway's entry, ISO 3166-2:NO:

Did Svalbard glaciers transition smoother than Greenland glaciers?

Although this presumably has happened on Svalbard glaciers, the transition may have been smoother than that observed at the peripheral glaciers surrounding the Greenland ice sheet (Noel et al., 2017), and in addition, it may be masked by large year-to-year variability.

Does the Svalbard archipelago have a negative mass balance?

However, the main conclusion one can reach from the body of GRACE analyses is that all find a negative total mass balance for the Svalbard archipelago, with values ranging from −0.46 to −0.09 m w.e. a –1, or −15.5 to −3.0 Gt a –1 (Table 2), even if the error range for some of the estimates extends them into the positive territory.

What is upscale climatic mass balance for Svalbard glaciers?

We apply this relation to upscale measured surface mass balance for a new estimate for all glaciers of Svalbard. Our reconciled estimates are −7 ± 4 Gt a –1 (2000–2019) for the climatic mass balance, and −8 ± 6 Gt a –1 for the total mass balance.