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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
33. Adapting to Climate Change in a High Mountain Environment: Developing a Monitoring Expert System for Hazardous Rock Walls
Authors : Ingo Hartmeyer, Markus Keuschnig, Jan-Christoph Otto, Lothar Schrott
Published in: Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Abstract
The research project MOREXPERT (“Monitoring Expert System for Hazardous Rock Walls”) investigates short and medium term responses of slope stability to climatic changes in high alpine rock walls. The study contributes to the question how man and infrastructure are potentially affected by these responses. Based on a combination of geophysical, geotechnical and borehole measurements, surface and subsurface conditions are monitored within the study area at the Kitzsteinhorn (3.203 m), Hohe Tauern, Austria. Factors controlling slope stability in steep bedrock, most notably freeze/thaw and permafrost dynamics, are identified and analysed with respect to changing climatic conditions. The fundamental goal of this research project is the development of a general decision support system for slope stability assessment in steep bedrock. Due to its flexible structure the decision support system is intended to be adaptable for application to rock walls of other regions.