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.

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Determining threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour - final project report	Biblio	save (3.32 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
The Theory/Practice of Disaster Justice: Learning from Indigenous Peoples’ Fire Management	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, resilience
Human error during the multilevel responses to three Australian bushfire disasters	Biblio		decision making, emergency management, fire
Numerical modelling of fires on forest floor and canopy fires	Biblio	save (1.64 MB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
January 2020 NSW bushfires study	Biblio	save (579.61 KB)	fire, fire impacts, response
Simulations of the effect of canopy density profile on sub-canopy wind speed profiles	Biblio	save (1.08 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
A radiative transfer model-based method for the estimation of grassland aboveground biomass	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Using alternative soil moisture estimates in the McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, modelling
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
Calculation of critical water flow rates for wildfire suppression	Biblio	save (1.69 MB)	fire, firefighter, response
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
Continental-scale prediction of live fuel moisture content using soil moisture information	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, land management
Mitigating the Effects of Severe Fires, Floods and Heatwaves Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (641.54 KB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
An Assessment of Pre- and Post Fire Near Surface Fuel Hazard in an Australian Dry Sclerophyll Forest Using Point Cloud Data Captured Using a Terrestrial Laser Scanner	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
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
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
Using Digital Earth Australia Waterbodies to support aerial firefighting	Biblio	save (2.69 MB)	fire, fire weather, remote sensing
Effective communication of household wildfire risk through WebGIS: considerations in content, representation and design	Biblio	save (3.91 MB)	communication, fire, modelling
How does remotely sensed degree of curing and fuel load vary in grasslands and effect modelled fire spread?	Biblio	save (5.01 MB)	fire, remote sensing
Shallow Fire Literacy Hinders Robust Fire Policy: Black Saturday and Prescribed Burning Debates	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, prescribed burning
Physics-based simulations of grassfire propagation on sloped terrain at field scale: flame dynamics, mode of fire propagation and heat fluxes	Biblio	save (11.45 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Cardiovascular Risk Screening Volunteer Firefighters Report	Biblio	save (648.89 KB)	fire, response
Utilization of remote sensing techniques for the quantification of fire behavior in two pine stands	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing
Simulating the effectiveness of prescribed burning at altering wildfire behaviour in Tasmania, Australia	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
Mapping and understanding bushfire and natural hazard vulnerability and risks at the institutional scale: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (2.01 MB)	fire, risk analysis, vulnerability
Urban planning capabilities for bushfire: treatment categories and scenario testing	Biblio	save (1.39 MB)	fire, planning, scenario analysis
Where do we put our dollars? Economic analysis of different bushfire management options in Western Australia	Biblio	save (391.13 KB)	economics, emergency management, fire
Validation of a novel attentional bias modification task: The future may be in the cards	Biblio		fire, response, risk management
How chief officers view success in fire policy and management	Biblio		fire, governance, policy
Effect of relative humidity on grassfire propagation	Biblio	save (1.42 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Cultural burning and public sector practice in the Australian Capital Territory	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, land management
Turbulent flow over transitionally rough surfaces with varying roughness densities	Biblio	save (527.34 KB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
Youth Justice Conferencing for youth misuse of fire: a child-centred disaster risk reduction mechanism	Biblio	save (181.58 KB)	child-centred, fire
Wind speed Reduction Factors (WRFs): utilities for WRF assessment and communication - Black Summer final report	Biblio	save (2.01 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
The Effects of Fire-Plume Dynamics on the Lateral and Longitudinal Spread of Long-Range Spotting Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (1.21 MB)	fire, modelling
Evolution of an extreme Pyrocumulonimbus-driven wildfire event in Tasmania, Australia	Biblio	save (844.71 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Sampling and data analysis of field sites in NSW	Biblio	save (1.47 MB)	fire, fuel reduction
Experiences of sheltering during the Black Saturday bushfires: Implications for policy and research	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, vulnerability
Encouraging evacuation: the role of behavioural message inputs in bushfire warnings	Biblio		communication, fire, warnings