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.

Item	Type		Key Topics
What are the drivers of dangerous fires in Mediterranean France?	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Using environmental criminology theories to compare ‘youth misuse of fire’ across age groups in New South Wales	Biblio		communities, fire
Investigating the activation of community fire units in the Blue Mountains during the October 2013 bushfires	Biblio	save (5.29 MB)	fire, local knowledge, volunteering
Analysis of the physical processes associated with junction fires at laboratory and field scales	Biblio		emergency management, fire, planning
Sleeping at work: not all about location, location, location	Biblio		fire
Physics-based simulation of firebrand and heat flux on structures in the context of AS3959	Biblio	save (1.68 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Pyrocumulonimbus: A Literature Review	Biblio	save (694.88 KB)	fire, modelling
Modelling of radiant heat flux and rate of spread of wildfire within the urban environment	Biblio	save (5.16 MB)	fire, fire impacts, propagation
Use of remote sensing measurements and data assimilation techniques to improve estimates of landscape dryness	Biblio	save (1.64 MB)	fire, land management, soil moisture
Physics-Based Simulations of Flow and Fire Development Downstream of a Canopy	Biblio	save (9.63 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
Disaster Landscape Attribution: Fire Surveillance and Hazard Mapping, Data Scaling and Validation Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (987.79 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Controlled burn and immediate mobilization of potentially toxic elements in soil, from a legacy mine site in Central Victoria, Australia	Biblio		fire, prescribed burning
Science in Motion: integrating scientific knowledge into bushfire risk mitigation in southwest Victoria	Biblio	save (211.26 KB)	fire, mitigation, planning
Coupled fire atmosphere modelling annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (467.49 KB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Active fire detection using the Himawari-8 satellite - annual report 2019-2020	Biblio	save (859.87 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Long-range spotting by bushfire plumes: The effects of plume dynamics and turbulence on firebrand trajectory	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting
Integrated urban planning for natural hazard mitigation	Biblio	save (2.41 MB)	fire, mitigation, risk analysis
Methods for background temperature estimation in the context of active fire detection	Project		fire
Retrieval of forest fuel moisture content using a coupled radiative transfer model	Biblio		environments, fire, modelling
Non-Additive Effects of Forest Litter on Flammability	Biblio	save (518.9 KB)	fire, land management, modelling
Improvement of drag model for non-burning firebrand transport in Fire Dynamics Simulator	Biblio		fire, modelling
Fire spread prediction across fuel types	Project		fire, modelling, propagation
Mapping bushfire hazards and impacts: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.09 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Increasing the comprehensiveness of bushfire risk management in Victoria through the planning system	Biblio	save (791.82 KB)	fire, planning, risk management
Probability of fire ignition and escalation	Project		fire, fuel reduction
Advances in active fire detection using a multi-temporal method for next-generation geostationary satellite data	Biblio		fire, remote sensing, response
Firebrand transport from a novel firebrand generator: numerical simulation of laboratory experiments	Biblio	save (10.05 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Persuasion without policies: The work of reviving Indigenous peoples’ fire management in southern Australia	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, land management
Evaluation and calibration of a land surface based soil moisture for fire danger ratings	Biblio	save (872.28 KB)	fire, soil moisture
Parenting after a disaster - experiences since Black Saturday	Project		child-centred, fire, recovery
Demographic profiling: Victorian bushfires 2009 case study	Biblio	save (12.2 MB)	communities, fire, fire impacts
Sensing bushfire: Exploring shifting perspectives as hazard moves through the landscape	Biblio		communication, fire, resilience
An organisational response to Stage 3 Geography and the study of a contemporary bushfire event	Biblio	save (533.99 KB)	child-centred, education, fire
Using alternative soil moisture estimates in the McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, modelling
Simulation of flows through canopies with varying atmospheric stability	Biblio	save (739.35 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Predicting fire danger ratings from physical measures of fire behaviour	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Continental-scale prediction of live fuel moisture content using soil moisture information	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, land management
Informing Queensland's bushfire review 2018	Project		communication, fire, fire impacts
Deriving comprehensive forest structure information from mobile laser scanning observations using automated point cloud classification	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Geographic Patterns of Fire Severity Following an Extreme Eucalyptus Forest Fire in Southern Australia: 2013 Forcett-Dunalley Fire	Biblio	save (8 MB)	fire, fire weather, remote sensing