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Kunduz Taloqan Shibirghan ! ! Shibirghan Kunduz Taloqan ! !! Shibirghan Kunduz Taloqan ! ! ! ! ! !! ! ! ! Mazar-e Sharif Baghlan Mazar-e Sharif Baghlan ! Mazar-e Sharif Baghlan ! Maymana ! Maymana ! Maymana ! !

Jalalabad Jalalabad ! Jalalabad ! !! \! ! ! \! Kabul !! Kabul\! ! Kabul Herat Herat Herat Ghazni Kazakhstan Ghazni ! Ghazni ! !

Kyrgyzstan ! ! ! !! ! Kandahar Kandahar Kandahar

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0 February 2008 - 2013 0 4 4 ± China 0 50 100 200 Tajikistan Kunduz Taloqan Shibirghan ! ! Kilometers ! !! Mazar-e Sharif Baghlan Maymana ! !

Uzbekistan Jalalabad ! \! ! ! ! Kabul Qarqin Chah-e Ab !

! Herat Imam Sahib ! ! Ghazni Rustaq ! Turkmenistan ! Fayzabad ! ! Qal`ah-ye Zal Andkhoy Aqchah !

! ! ! ! Jarm ! ! Khulm Kunduz Taloqan ! Shibirghan Mazar-e Sharif ! Farkhar Ashkasham

! ! Aibak Sar-e Pul ! Jammu Baghlan !! ! ! ! Kandahar Maymana Sang-e Charak Pul-e Khumri ! and Ghormach

! Chiras ! Qal`ah Now Parun ! Kashmir Bazarak ! N N " " 0 0

' ! ! ' ! 0 Koshk Snow Coverage Trend Analysis 0 ° ! ! Charikar Asmar ° 5 Qala i Naw ! 5 3 Qarah Bagh 3 Bamyan ! Asadabad ! March 2008 - 2013 ! Kabul Kafir Qala ! ! Kohistan ! Paghman Chaghcharan ! ! ! \ Karukh ! ! !! Panjab Maidan Shahr Jalalabad Snow Coverage Trend Analysis between 2008 and 2013 Gorian Herat ! ! Chahar Burj ! ! Cool urhajo Hukumati Azrow Shahrak ! for road practicability in Afghanistan Sar-e Pol Baraki Barak ! The snow cover product is a classification of snow covered areas created by a synthesis of satellite Nili ! ! data (MODISMOD10 snow cover data, which are a daily classification of snow-covered soil) Ghazni ! Gardez collected during the 8 days before the date of production.

! SKhuisnhdkan! d ! Khost ! Three classes of snow cover can be identified, for each daily product: Zarah Sharan ! High snow persistence: snow covered areas from 60 to 100% of time over the last week Uruzgan ! ! Zarghun Shahr Anar Darah Tarinkot ! Medium snow persistence: snow covered areas from 30 to 60 % of time over the last week Farah ! Low snow persistence: snow covered areas from 10 to 30% of time over the last week ! Pakistan Sangin ! Qalat Then, a long series of daily products covering 6 years has been reclassified, ! Gereshk India assigning values 1 for Low, 2 for Medium and 3 for High ! ! ! persistence.Finally, these rasters have been processed in order to calculate ! Lashkar Gah Kandahar Khash the average snow persistence of each month.Therefore the closer the pixel value gets to 3, the higher will be the snow persistence of that area in the considered month.

! Zaranj Settlement Transportation WFP Facilities Boundaries Afghanistan Snow Depth Forecast in cm \! National Capital Primary road Afghanistan Boundary ! Mirabad Road Praticability from 28 to 31 Mar 2014 !! Major Town Secondary road ¨ Country Office International Boundary ! ! N N " Intermediate Town Tertiary road Undetermined Boundary "

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3 Small Town Track/Trail First Level Admin Boundary 3 Sub Office The estimated snow depth plot was constructed , with Integrated Forecasting System from ECMWF model. The cell resolution is 16 km2 and the data are in cm. / Area Office Data Source: ECMWF The boundaries and names and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations.

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