How climate change effects the landslide initiation?

Climate change leads to a increased frequency of extreme precipitation and prolonged drought period, both of which have a severe impact on the landslide initiation as they affect the geotechnical properties of the soil. Even though we theoretically know how the effect of such deviation on extreme events affect the landslides, its quantification is yet to be done on different potential scenarios such as combinations of low ground water table and extreme precipitation or prolonged drought with glacier melting. This MSc research will focus on developing such synthetic scenarios and evaluating how such scenarios will affect the landslide inititation.