Monitoring and forecasting Impact of climate change on slope stability

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Monitoring and forecastingImpact of climate
change on slope stability

• Neil Dixon and Tom Dijkstra
• Loughborough University

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Study area Mam Tor, Derbyshire
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History of road disruption
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• Plot of maximum 1 and 6 month rainfalls
  (1903-1998) and correlation with recorded
  landslide movements

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Return periods for threshold exceedence (no
temperature correction) based on the Medium-High
scenario
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• Calculated probabilities of thresholds being
  exceeded within any given month