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
Risks and opportunities for sustainable savanna fire management	Biblio	save (2.07 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
Disaster in relation to attachment, loss, grief and recovery: the Marysville experience	Project		communities, fire, recovery
Giving voice to our givers: A phenomenological study addressing the perceptions of Rural Fire Service volunteers in Queensland	Project		emergency management, fire, volunteering
Development of an integrated method to predict bushfire hazard	Project		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
A guide to develop bushfire case studies - a case study of cropland fires	Project		fire, modelling, scenario analysis
Plume and air quality modelling	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Mapping Bushfire Hazard and Impacts Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (1.82 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
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
Estimating fire severity and carbon emissions over Australian tropical savannahs based on passive microwave satellite observations	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Effective communication of household wildfire risk through WebGIS: considerations in content, representation and design	Biblio	save (3.91 MB)	communication, fire, modelling
Mapping bushfire hazard and impacts	Project		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Factors influencing householder self-evacuation in two Australian bushfires	Biblio	save (4.68 MB)	communication, fire, warnings
Analysis of RapidEye imagery to map fire severity and ground truthing	Project		fire, risk analysis
Active fire detection using the Himawari-8 satellite - final project report	Biblio	save (1.58 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Savanna fire management and bushfire and natural hazard scenario planning for northern Australia: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.72 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
Implementation of a new algorithm resulting in improvements in accuracy and resolution of SEVIRI hotspot products	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Shallow Fire Literacy Hinders Robust Fire Policy: Black Saturday and Prescribed Burning Debates	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, prescribed burning
Tympanic Temperature to Predict Core Temperatures of Firefighters Report	Biblio	save (690.93 KB)	fire, response
Approaches for investigating fire impacts on catchment hydrology	Project		fire, hydrology
Determining firebrand generation rate using physics-based modelling from experimental studies through inverse analysis	Biblio	save (8.12 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Surviving bushfire: the role of shelters and sheltering practices during the Black Saturday bushfires	Biblio		communities, decision making, fire
High-Resolution Estimates of Fire Severity - An Evaluation of UAS Image and LiDAR Mapping Approaches on a Sedgeland Forest Boundary in Tasmania, Australia	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, remote sensing
Urban planning capabilities for bushfire: treatment categories and scenario testing	Biblio	save (1.39 MB)	fire, planning, scenario analysis
A unified approach to fire spread modelling	Biblio	save (678.84 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Improving decision support tools for conservation of fire-adapted ecosystems in southern Australia, through integrated simulation of reproductive ecology and landscape dynamics	Project		fire, modelling
Using a worldview lens to examine complex policy issues: a historical review of bushfire management in the South West of Australia	Biblio		fire, governance, policy
Physics based simulations of grassfire propagation in patchy fuel beds and slopped terrain - a parametric study	Project		fire, fire impacts
Effect of relative humidity on grassfire propagation	Biblio	save (1.42 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Understanding spatial patterns of wildfire occurrence in south eastern Australia	Project		fire, fire impacts
Sleep restriction across a simulated firefighting deployment: The impact on acute stress responses	Biblio	save (24.15 MB)	fire, response
Fire Risk Assessment of Combustible Exterior Cladding Using a Collective Numerical Database	Biblio	save (3.03 MB)	fire, infrastructure, risk management
Adaptive prescribed burning in Australia for the early 21st Century – context, status, challenges	Biblio	save (295.2 KB)	fire, prescribed burning, risk management
Household decision making in bushfire self evacuation	Project		decision making, fire
Methods for background temperature estimation in the context of active fire detection	Biblio	save (22.24 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Remote sensing applied to bushfire	Project		fire, remote sensing
Determining the minimum sampling frequency for ground measurements of burn severity	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Mapping bushfire hazards and impacts: annual project report 2017-18	Biblio	save (2.18 MB)	fire