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
Climate Change Increases the Potential for Extreme Wildfires	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Dynamic modelling of fire coalescence	Biblio	save (4.5 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
Established and emerging uses of predictive services in Victoria	Biblio	save (895.93 KB)	emergency management, fire, firefighter
Thermodynamic considerations of pyrocumulus formation	Biblio	save (1.32 MB)	fire, fire weather, severe weather
Developing and testing models of the drivers of anthropogenic and lightning-caused wildfire ignitions in south-eastern Australia	Biblio		fire, modelling, risk management
Leaf traits predict global patterns in the structure and flammability of forest litter beds	Biblio	save (1.39 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, land management
Making Sense of Natural Disasters: The Learning Vacuum of Bushfire Public Inquiries	Biblio		fire, organisational, preparedness
Understanding the variability of Australian fire weather between 1973 and 2017	Biblio		climate change, fire, fire weather
“Since I went to the conference… I have really thought just how bad lighting fires are”: diversionary conferencing for youth misuse of fire	Biblio		child-centred, fire
Coupled fire atmosphere modelling annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (467.49 KB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Using videos in floods and bushfires to educate, signal risk, and promote protective action in the community	Biblio		communication, fire, flood
Meteorological drivers of extreme fire behaviour during the Waroona bushfire, Western Australia, January 2016	Biblio		fire, fire weather, severe weather
Integrated urban planning for natural hazard mitigation	Biblio	save (2.41 MB)	fire, mitigation, risk analysis
Deconstructing factors contributing to the 2018 fire weather in Queensland, Australia	Biblio	save (932.55 KB)	climate change, fire, fire weather
Think long term: the costs and benefits of prescribed burning in the south west of Western Australia	Biblio	save (207.03 KB)	economics, fire, prescribed burning
Increasing the comprehensiveness of bushfire risk management in Victoria through the planning system	Biblio	save (791.82 KB)	fire, planning, risk management
Development of an interface using penalisation method for improving computational performance of bushfire simulation tools	Biblio	save (10.13 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
Fire coalescence and mass spotfire dynamics - experimentation, modelling and simulation: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (1.91 MB)	fire, fire weather, propagation
How do residents in bushfire prone areas view the risk of their local area and homes?	Biblio	save (676.88 KB)	communities, fire, risk analysis
Developing guidelines for increasing the resilience of informal settlements exposed to wildfire risk using a risk-based planning approach	Biblio		communities, fire, resilience
Wildfire suppression – an international analysis of operations, strategy and firefighter safety	Biblio	save (9.29 MB)	fire, fire impacts, response
Experiences in the in-field utilisation of fuels3D	Biblio	save (601.76 KB)	emergency management, fire, fuel reduction
Australian Flammability Monitoring System Version 1.0: User feedback and priorities for further development	Biblio	save (688.21 KB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
Predicting dead fine fuel moisture at regional scales using vapour pressure deficit from MODIS and gridded weather data	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, modelling
Long-range fire weather predictions developed and service established as new capability for Australia	Biblio	save (1.55 MB)	capability, fire, fire weather
Psychophysiological relationships between a multi-component self-report measure of mood, stress and behavioural signs and symptoms, and physiological stress responses during a simulated firefighting deployment	Biblio		decision making, fire
Verification of a Lagrangian particle model for short-range firebrand transport	Biblio	save (1.26 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
A lightning-caused wildfire ignition forecasting model for operational use	Biblio		fire, fire weather
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
A theoretical framework for negotiating the path of emergency management multi-agency coordination	Biblio		emergency management, fire
Wildland fire	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Assessing Metrics for Estimating Fire Induced Change in the Forest Understorey Structure Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning	Biblio	save (9.28 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Up-scaling fuel hazard metrics derived from terrestrial laser scanning using a machine learning model	Biblio	save (15.05 MB)	fire, prescribed burning, remote sensing
Estimating grassland curing with remotely sensed data	Biblio		fire, fire severity, modelling
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
Mitigating the Effects of Severe Fires, Floods and Heatwaves Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (641.54 KB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
January 2020 NSW bushfires study	Biblio	save (579.61 KB)	fire, fire impacts, response
Can air quality management drive sustainable fuels management at the temperate wildland–urban interface?	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction
Intercomparison of Himawari-8 AHI-FSA with MODIS and VIIRS active fire products	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Cost effectiveness of fire management strategies in southern Australia	Biblio		fire, modelling, organisational