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
Understanding the variability of Australian fire weather between 1973 and 2017	Biblio		climate change, fire, fire weather
Adaptive prescribed burning in Australia for the early 21st Century – context, status, challenges	Biblio	save (295.2 KB)	fire, prescribed burning, risk management
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
Exploring ISO31000 Risk Management during Dynamic Fire and Emergency Operations in Western Australia	Biblio	save (553.18 KB)	fire, firefighter, risk management
Simulations of the effect of canopy density profile on sub-canopy wind speed profiles	Biblio	save (988.48 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Sleeping at work: not all about location, location, location	Biblio		fire
Assessment of potentially toxic metal contamination in the soils of a legacy mine site in Central Victoria, Australia.	Biblio		environments, fire, land management
Mesoscale features related to the Blue Mountains fires of 17 October 2013 revealed by high resolution Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) modelling	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting
Effects of prenatal bushfire stress on life history traits in humans	Biblio	save (6.95 MB)	fire, fire impacts, risk management
A guide to reconstructing cropland wildfires – data collection, collation and analysis for case study construction	Biblio	save (2.54 MB)	fire, modelling, scenario analysis
Disaster landscape attribution: annual report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.22 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
A Broad-Area Method for the Diurnal Characterisation of Upwelling Medium Wave Infrared Radiation	Biblio	save (3.37 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Determination of smoldering time and thermal characteristics of firebrands under laboratory conditions	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Physics-based simulations of grassfire propagation on sloped terrain at field scale: motivations, model reliability, rate of spread and fire intensity	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Using environmental criminology theories to compare ‘youth misuse of fire’ across age groups in New South Wales	Biblio		communities, fire
A comparison and validation of satellite-derived fire severity mapping techniques in fire prone north Australian savannas: Extreme fires and tree stem mortality	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Developing and testing models of the drivers of anthropogenic and lightning-caused wildfire ignitions in south-eastern Australia	Biblio		fire, modelling, risk management
Physics-based simulation of firebrand and heat flux on structures in the context of AS3959	Biblio	save (1.68 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Risk and protection factors for bushfire resilience and recovery - non peer reviewed extended abstract	Biblio	save (203.71 KB)	fire, recovery, resilience
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
The contribution of turbulent plume dynamics to long-range spotting	Biblio		fire, fire weather, propagation
Physics-Based Simulations of Flow and Fire Development Downstream of a Canopy	Biblio	save (9.63 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
Savanna fire management and bushfire and natural hazard scenario planning for northern Australia: annual project report 2015-2016	Biblio	save (2.82 MB)	fire, fire severity, fuel reduction
Simulated Self-Paced Wildfire Suppression Work in Different Thermal Conditions	Biblio	save (13.55 MB)	decision making, exposure, fire
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
Integrated urban planning for natural hazard mitigation	Biblio	save (2.41 MB)	fire, mitigation, risk analysis
Meteorological drivers of extreme fire behaviour during the Waroona bushfire, Western Australia, January 2016	Biblio		fire, fire weather, severe weather
Pyrocumulonimbus: A Literature Review	Biblio	save (694.88 KB)	fire, modelling
Struggling to make sense of it all: the emotional process of sensemaking following an extreme incident	Biblio		emergency management, fire, organisational
Non-Additive Effects of Forest Litter on Flammability	Biblio	save (518.9 KB)	fire, land management, modelling
An optimization model for aggregation of prescribed burn units	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction
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
Increasing the comprehensiveness of bushfire risk management in Victoria through the planning system	Biblio	save (791.82 KB)	fire, planning, risk management
Extreme fire behaviours: Surveying fire management staff to determine behaviour frequencies and importance	Biblio	save (414.7 KB)	emergency management, fire, fire severity
Cardiac autonomic impacts of bushfire smoke – A prospective panel study	Biblio		exposure, fire, fire impacts
Perceptions of risk and connection to landscape	Biblio		communities, fire, risk management
Experiences in the in-field utilisation of fuels3D	Biblio	save (601.76 KB)	emergency management, fire, fuel reduction
Persuasion without policies: The work of reviving Indigenous peoples’ fire management in southern Australia	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, land management