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
Predicting dead fine fuel moisture at regional scales using vapour pressure deficit from MODIS and gridded weather data	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, modelling
Verification of a Lagrangian particle model for short-range firebrand transport	Biblio	save (1.26 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Black Summer - how the NSW community responded to the 2019-20 bushfire season	Biblio	save (2.89 MB)	communication, communities, fire
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
Development of an interface using penalisation method for improving computational performance of bushfire simulation tools	Biblio	save (10.13 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
Developing guidelines for increasing the resilience of informal settlements exposed to wildfire risk using a risk-based planning approach	Biblio		communities, fire, resilience
Causes and consequences of Eastern Australia’s 2019–20 season of mega‐fires: A broader perspective	Biblio	save (623.99 KB)	climate change, fire, fire severity
The potential for coastal dune de-stabilisation following 2015/16 wildfires near Esperance, WA	Project		coastal, fire, fire impacts
Investigating the effect of soil moisture, temperature and precipitation extremes on fire risk and intensity in Australia	Project		fire
A comparison between TLS and UAS LiDAR to represent eucalypt crown fuel characteristics	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Effects of Sydney coastal dry sclerophyll forest litter on fuels and fire behaviour in Hornsby shire	Biblio	save (2.29 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fuel reduction
Should we leave now? Behavioral factors in evacuation under wildfire threat	Biblio		fire, modelling
Historical background and current developments for mapping burned area from satellite Earth observation	Biblio	save (1.35 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Fire transitions across urban boundaries	Project		fire
Representing vapour and capillary rise from the soil improves a leaf litter moisture model	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, modelling
The Theory/Practice of Disaster Justice: Learning from Indigenous Peoples’ Fire Management	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, resilience
Remote sensing of fuel to improve fire behaviour predictions	Project		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Performance of fire detection algorithms using himawari-8	Biblio	save (1.27 MB)	emergency management, fire, fire weather
Implementation of spatially-varying wind adjustment factor for wildfire simulations	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
January 2020 NSW bushfires study	Biblio	save (579.61 KB)	fire, fire impacts, response
Literature review: modelling and simulation of flow over tree canopies	Biblio	save (943.19 KB)	environments, fire, fire weather
Gendered responses to the 2009 Black Saturday Bushfires in Victoria, Australia	Biblio		communities, fire, response
Youth justice conferencing for youth misuse of fire: a case study of collaboration	Biblio	save (566.7 KB)	child-centred, education, fire
Using earth observation to better understand the effects of aerial firefighting	Project		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Disaster in relation to attachment, loss, grief and recovery: the Marysville experience	Project		communities, fire, recovery
Carbon loss from planned fires in southeastern Australian dry Eucalyptus forests	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction
Giving voice to our givers: A phenomenological study addressing the perceptions of Rural Fire Service volunteers in Queensland	Project		emergency management, fire, volunteering
Bushfire survival preparations by householders in at-risk areas of south-eastern Australia	Biblio		communities, fire, planning
A guide to develop bushfire case studies - a case study of cropland fires	Project		fire, modelling, scenario analysis
Mitigating the Effects of Severe Fires, Floods and Heatwaves Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (1.12 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
Approaches for investigating wildfire impacts on catchment hydrology	Biblio	save (2.91 MB)	environments, fire, fire impacts
Cost effectiveness of fire management strategies in southern Australia	Biblio		fire, modelling, organisational
Simulating boundary-layer rolls with a numerical weather prediction model	Biblio		fire, modelling
Refinement and validation of the pyrolysis and firebrand transport sub-models for a physics based bushfire prediction model	Project		fire, modelling
Numerical study on effect of relative humidity (and fuel moisture) on modes of grassfire propagation	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Biogeographical variation in the potential effectiveness of prescribed fire in south-eastern Australia	Biblio		fire, prescribed burning, risk management
Effects of prescribed fire and post-fire rainfall on mercury mobilization and subsequent contamination assessment in a legacy mine site in Victoria, Australia	Biblio		fire, prescribed burning
Evolution of an extreme Pyrocumulonimbus-driven wildfire event in Tasmania, Australia	Biblio	save (844.71 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Navigating Uncertainty: a qualitative study of resident involvement in the 2013 Forcett Tasmania bushfire disaster	Biblio	save (3.49 MB)	fire, fire impacts, recovery
Large-eddy simulations of bushfire plumes in the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting