Key topics

fire

Fire is the product of a chemical reaction between fuel, oxygen and heat. Heat is necessary to start the reaction and once ignited, fire produces its own heat and becomes self-supporting.

Date	Item	Type		Key Topics
30 Aug 2016	The social life of science: tales from Victoria and the Northern Territory - Jessica Weir	Resource	save (1.49 MB)	decision making, fire, policy
10 Apr 2019	AFAC national activities overview	Resource	save (5.85 MB)	fire, fire impacts
07 Jul 2017	Three Minute Thesis: attribution of active fire using simulated fire landscapes	Resource	save (132.79 KB)	fire, modelling
07 Aug 2014	Measuring the impacts of bushfires on human fatalities and building losses	Resource	save (3.25 MB)	engineering, fire
24 Oct 2016	Flammable grassy weeds	Resource	save (3.42 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, Northern Australia
18 Sep 2018	Multi-temporal and spatial remote sensing imagery to monitor flammability in Australia	Resource	save (3.56 MB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
15 Sep 2020	France-Australia Workshop: Day 1/Panel 1 Alen Slijepcevic	Resource	save (2.56 MB)	decision making, fire, multi-hazard
04 Dec 2014	Challenges in physics based bushfire modelling	Resource	save (885.16 KB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
03 Jul 2015	Northern Queensland Fire Season Potential Outlook	Resource	save (3.65 MB)	fire, forecasting
19 Sep 2018	Dry conditions prompt an earlier bushfire season	Resource		cyclone, fire, modelling
07 Sep 2017	A unified approach to fire spread modelling	Resource	save (4.06 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
29 Jun 2018	Review of seasonal bushfire outlook	Resource	save (1.1 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
29 Mar 2017	Can we predict bushfires from space?—Dr Marta Yebra	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
18 Aug 2015	Towards Culturally Appropriate Fire Management in the Waanyi and Garawa Lands	Resource	save (147.24 KB)	fire, governance, indigenous communities
13 May 2020	Webinar 2 (13 May): Tina Bell presentation	Resource	save (8.48 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
31 Aug 2020	Flammability of live plants, do we need a new testing approach?	Resource	save (394.59 KB)	fire, fire weather
24 Apr 2015	How do residents in bushfire prone areas view the risk of their homes?	Resource	save (413.6 KB)	communities, fire, risk analysis
29 Jun 2017	Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain for bushfire modelling	Resource	save (2.33 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
18 Aug 2015	Meteorology of the Sampson Flat Fire in January 2015	Resource	save (1.63 MB)	fire, fire weather
13 May 2020	Questions and comments from the audience: 13 May 2020 - The science of hazard reduction: what do we know, what are the knowledge gaps?	Resource	save (215.66 KB)	fire, fire weather, prescribed burning
23 Nov 2018	Fire spread prediction across fuel types by physics-based modelling	Resource	save (2.02 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fuel reduction
21 Mar 2014	Fire management training for northern Australia	Resource	save (1.22 MB)	fire, indigenous communities, Northern Australia
27 Aug 2019	Detecting Active Fires using Himawari-8: a report from the NSW trial	Resource	save (2.9 MB)	fire, fire impacts
29 Jun 2017	The Australian Flammability Monitoring System	Resource	save (1.79 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
11 Jun 2020	Q&A with Ruth Ryan - National Fire Fuels Science webinar: the practice of hazard reduction	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
08 Sep 2014	Next generation models for predicting the behaviour of bushfires	Resource	save (1.12 MB)	fire, modelling
27 Aug 2019	ACCESS-Fire	Resource	save (11.32 MB)	fire, modelling
08 May 2015	The Effect of Extreme Heat on the Performance of a Simulated Firefighter Task Poster	Resource	save (566.54 KB)	fire, response
31 Jul 2020	Readiness for the next major bushfire emergency	Resource		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
27 Oct 2014	Next generation models for predicting the behaviour of bushfires	Resource		fire, modelling
17 Oct 2019	The Savanna and Rangelands Monitoring and Evaluation Reporting Framework (SMERF)	Resource	save (8.51 MB)	fire, Northern Australia
19 Sep 2018	Australian flammability monitoring system website	Resource	save (1006.31 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
06 May 2020	Webinar 1 (6 May): Justin Leonard presentation	Resource	save (4.48 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
25 Nov 2020	Carbon abatement through better fire mapping	Resource		fire, Northern Australia, prescribed burning
03 Jul 2018	National intiatives - fire danger ratings, professionalisation	Resource	save (4.52 MB)	fire, fire impacts, savanna grasslands
18 Aug 2015	Impact of Vegetation Regrowth on Wind Direction Over Complex Terrain	Resource	save (250.9 KB)	fire, severe weather
20 May 2020	Webinar 3 (20 May): Valerie Densmore presentation	Resource	save (1.42 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
27 Aug 2019	Disaster and economic resilience in small regional communities: the case of Toodyay	Resource	save (433.35 KB)	fire, optimisation
31 Oct 2017	Mapping bushfire hazards and impacts: developing spatial information on fire hazard for planners, land managers and emergency services	Resource	save (1.32 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
12 Aug 2016	The Australian flammability monitoring system	Resource	save (362.43 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing