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
Determining threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour - annual report 2019-2020	Biblio	save (2.59 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Planning for Bushfires on the Rural-Urban Interface: An analysis of the correlations between house setbacks and house loss as evidence of house-to-house fire spread in the 2009 Victorian Bushfires	Project		engineering, fire, planning
Experiences of sheltering during the Black Saturday bushfires: Implications for policy and research	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, vulnerability
Comparison of soil wetness from multiple models over Australia with observations	Biblio		fire, flood, remote sensing
Emerging technologies for estimating fuel hazard	Biblio	save (2.85 MB)	capability, fire, remote sensing
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: 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
Experiments on the influence of spot fire and topography interaction on fire rate of spread	Biblio	save (1.63 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
Determining threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (1.52 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Linking local wildfire dynamics to pyroCB development - non peer reviewed extended abstract	Biblio	save (145.88 KB)	fire, modelling
Improving land dryness measures and forecasts	Project		fire, flood, remote sensing
Determination of smoldering time and thermal characteristics of firebrands under laboratory conditions	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Globe-LFMC, a global plant water status database for vegetation ecophysiology and wildfire applications	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
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
Smoke transportation and emissions modelling	Project		fire, modelling
Physical and fire behaviour characterisation of bushland fuels	Project		fire, modelling, propagation
Hazards, culture and indigenous communities: socio-institutional modules for utilisation	Biblio	save (1.22 MB)	fire, indigenous communities, modelling
Kinetics of pyrolysis of litter materials from pine and eucalyptus forests	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, propagation
Multi-scaled calibration of high-resolution burnt area and fire severity mapping - workshop report	Biblio	save (1.39 MB)	fire, fire impacts, land management
Development of an interface using penalisation method for improving computational performance of bushfire simulation tools	Project		fire, modelling, physics
Statistical models for the location of lightning caused wildfire ignitions	Biblio	save (5.69 MB)	fire, mitigation
Fire Risk Assessment of Combustible Exterior Cladding Using a Collective Numerical Database	Biblio	save (3.03 MB)	fire, infrastructure, risk management
Assessing the utility of the TET-1 hotspot detection and characterization algorithm for determining wildfire size and temperature	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
A model-data fusion framework for estimating fuel properties, vegetation growth, carbon storage and the water balance at hillslope scale	Biblio	save (2.69 MB)	fire, modelling
Simulations of the effect of canopy density profile on sub-canopy wind speed profiles	Biblio	save (988.48 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Methods for background temperature estimation in the context of active fire detection	Biblio	save (22.24 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Fire Spread Across Fuel Types Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (450.6 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Assessment of potentially toxic metal contamination in the soils of a legacy mine site in Central Victoria, Australia.	Biblio		environments, fire, land management
Integrating bushfire risk reduction and statutory mechanisms in South Australia	Biblio	save (753.84 KB)	fire, mitigation, modelling
Struggling to make sense of it all: the emotional process of sensemaking following an extreme incident	Biblio		emergency management, fire, organisational
Fire and heavy metals: when wild and controlled fires transform un-rehabilitated mining waste	Biblio	save (10.75 MB)	fire, fire impacts, land management
Cardiac autonomic impacts of bushfire smoke – A prospective panel study	Biblio		exposure, fire, fire impacts
Why don't bushfire warnings work as intended? Responses to official warnings during bushfires in New South Wales, Australia	Biblio		communities, fire, warnings
Experiences in the in-field utilisation of fuels3D	Biblio	save (601.76 KB)	emergency management, fire, fuel reduction
What are the safety implications of dynamic fire behaviours?	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
Parenting after a disaster - experiences since Black Saturday	Project		child-centred, fire, recovery
Australian Flammability Monitoring System Version 1.0: User feedback and priorities for further development	Biblio	save (688.21 KB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
Tree recruitment dynamics in fire-prone eucalypt savanna	Biblio	save (3.67 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
Impact of Australia's catastrophic 2019/20 bushfire season on communities and environment. Retrospective analysis and current trends	Biblio	save (1.34 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather