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
Exploring 167 years of vulnerability: An examination of extreme heat events in Australia 1844–2010	Biblio		fire, vulnerability
Evolution of an extreme Pyrocumulonimbus-driven wildfire event in Tasmania, Australia	Biblio	save (844.71 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Sampling and data analysis of field sites in NSW	Biblio	save (1.47 MB)	fire, fuel reduction
Studying leaf area density based wind adjustment factor in Spark	Biblio	save (3.49 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Advances in the remote sensing of active fires: a review	Biblio	save (1.79 MB)	emergency management, fire, remote sensing
Effective communication of household wildfire risk through WebGIS: considerations in content, representation and design	Biblio	save (3.91 MB)	communication, fire, modelling
How does remotely sensed degree of curing and fuel load vary in grasslands and effect modelled fire spread?	Biblio	save (5.01 MB)	fire, remote sensing
Meteorological drivers of the eastern Victorian Black Summer (2019–2020) fires	Biblio		fire, fire weather, scenario analysis
Evaluation of daily soil moisture deficit used in Australian forest fire danger rating system	Biblio	save (2.64 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
The Stress of Firefighting Report	Biblio	save (620.18 KB)	fire, response
Shallow Fire Literacy Hinders Robust Fire Policy: Black Saturday and Prescribed Burning Debates	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, prescribed burning
Utilization of remote sensing techniques for the quantification of fire behavior in two pine stands	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing
Mapping and understanding bushfire and natural hazard vulnerability and risks at the institutional scale: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (2.01 MB)	fire, risk analysis, vulnerability
Effects of Oxygen Concentration on Radiation-Aided and Self-sustained Smoldering Combustion of Radiata Pine	Biblio		fire, fire weather, fuel reduction
Efficiency of Individual Tree Detection Approaches Based on Light-Weight and Low-Cost UAS Imagery in Australian Savannas	Biblio		fire, Northern Australia, remote sensing
Global vegetation gross primary production estimation using satellite-derived light-use efficiency and canopy conductance	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing
Urban planning capabilities for bushfire: treatment categories and scenario testing	Biblio	save (1.39 MB)	fire, planning, scenario analysis
How chief officers view success in fire policy and management	Biblio		fire, governance, policy
Development of a predictive model for estimating forest surface fuel load in Australian eucalypt forests with LiDAR data	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Effect of relative humidity on grassfire propagation	Biblio	save (1.42 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Turbulent flow over transitionally rough surfaces with varying roughness densities	Biblio	save (527.34 KB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Biblio		emergency management, fire, physics
Navigating scientific uncertainty in wildfire and flood risk mitigation: A qualitative review	Biblio	save (435.47 KB)	fire, flood, mitigation
Modelling wind direction distributions using a diagnostic model in the context of probabilistic fire spread prediction	Biblio	save (9.25 MB)	fire, fire weather, severe weather
Methods for background temperature estimation in the context of active fire detection	Biblio	save (22.24 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Established and emerging uses of predictive services in Victoria	Biblio	save (895.93 KB)	emergency management, fire, firefighter
Suitable pyrolysis model for physics-based bushfire simulation	Biblio	save (708.53 KB)	capability, fire, modelling
Integrating bushfire risk reduction and statutory mechanisms in South Australia	Biblio	save (753.84 KB)	fire, mitigation, modelling
Investigating surface and near-surface bushfire fuel attributes: a comparison between visual assessments and image-based point clouds	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing
Comparison of soil wetness from multiple models over Australia with observations	Biblio		fire, flood, remote sensing
“Should I Stay or Should I Go?” Defining the Preparatory Conditions in Support of Active Defence for Different Fire Danger Ratings	Biblio		communication, fire
Making Sense of Natural Disasters: The Learning Vacuum of Bushfire Public Inquiries	Biblio		fire, organisational, preparedness
Disaster landscape attribution: fire surveillance and hazard mapping, data scaling and validation: Annual project report	Biblio	save (1.54 MB)	fire, land management, remote sensing
Recirculation regions downstream of a canopy on a hill	Biblio	save (1.57 MB)	fire, land management, planning
Linking local wildfire dynamics to pyroCB development - non peer reviewed extended abstract	Biblio	save (145.88 KB)	fire, modelling
Globe-LFMC, a global plant water status database for vegetation ecophysiology and wildfire applications	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
Terrestrial Laser Scanning: an operational tool for fuel hazard mapping?	Biblio		fire, prescribed burning, remote sensing
Community preparedness and responses to the 2017 NSW bushfires	Biblio	save (561.7 KB)	communities, fire, fire impacts
Using environmental criminology theories to compare ‘youth misuse of fire’ across age groups in New South Wales	Biblio		communities, fire
Thermodynamic considerations of pyrocumulus formation	Biblio	save (1.32 MB)	fire, fire weather, severe weather