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.

Date	Item	Type		Key Topics
	Physics-based simulation of short-range spotting in wildfires	Biblio	save (21 MB)	fire, mitigation, modelling
	Utilization of remote sensing techniques for the quantification of fire behavior in two pine stands	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing
	Surviving bushfire: the role of shelters and sheltering practices during the Black Saturday bushfires	Biblio		communities, decision making, fire
	Linking local wildfire dynamics to pyroCB development - non peer reviewed extended abstract	Biblio	save (145.88 KB)	fire, modelling
	Analysis of the physical processes associated with junction fires at laboratory and field scales	Biblio		emergency management, fire, planning
	Near real-time extracting wildfire spread rate from Himawari-8 satellite data	Biblio	save (3.36 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
	We have not lived long enough: sensemaking and learning from bushfires in Australia	Biblio	save (9.09 MB)	fire, fire impacts
	Modelling the dynamic behaviour of junction fires with a coupled fire-atmosphere model	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
	RUIM – A fire safety engineering model for rural urban interface firefighter taskforce deployment	Biblio		fire, firefighter, organisational
	Sleep restriction across a simulated firefighting deployment: The impact on acute stress responses	Biblio	save (24.15 MB)	fire, response
	Climate Change Significantly Alters Future Wildfire Mitigation Opportunities in Southeastern Australia	Biblio		climate change, fire, prescribed burning
	Modelling wind direction distributions using a diagnostic model in the context of probabilistic fire spread prediction	Biblio	save (9.25 MB)	fire, fire weather, severe weather
	Determining the minimum sampling frequency for ground measurements of burn severity	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
	Incorporating firebrands and spot fires into vorticity-driven wildfire behaviour models	Biblio	save (3.04 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
	Climate Change Increases the Potential for Extreme Wildfires	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
	Investigating surface and near-surface bushfire fuel attributes: a comparison between visual assessments and image-based point clouds	Biblio		environments, fire, 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
	Assessing the utility of the TET-1 hotspot detection and characterization algorithm for determining wildfire size and temperature	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
	Fire Spread Across Fuel Types Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (450.6 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
	Initial growth of fires in eucalypt litter, from ignition to steady-state rate of spread: laboratory studies	Biblio		fire, response
	Post-inquiry sensemaking: the case of the ‘Black Saturday’ bushfires	Biblio		fire, organisational, preparedness
	Leaf traits predict global patterns in the structure and flammability of forest litter beds	Biblio	save (1.39 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, land management
	Comparison of soil wetness from multiple models over Australia with observations	Biblio		fire, flood, remote sensing
	Downscaling of soil dryness estimates: a short review	Biblio	save (1.56 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
	Community preparedness and responses to the 2017 NSW bushfires	Biblio	save (561.7 KB)	communities, fire, fire impacts
	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
	Physics-based modelling of junction fires: Parametric study	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
	Integrating wildfire risk management and spatial planning – A historical review of two Australian planning systems	Biblio	save (2.03 MB)	exposure, fire, infrastructure
07 Nov 2016	A great opportunity to network with colleagues	Blog		fire, fuel reduction
15 Oct 2015	Insights from South Korea	Blog		fire
15 Mar 2016	Communities of interest	Blog		communication, emergency management, fire
23 Aug 2019	Our new global plant water status database may prevent you from needing to fieldwork. What will you miss?	Blog		emergency management, fire, fire severity
19 Mar 2019	Learning the media game	Blog		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
30 Jan 2018	Fire management research at Imperial College, London	Blog		fire, modelling, propagation
14 Feb 2019	Still Smouldering: reflections on the symposium	Blog		communities, fire, fire impacts
15 Mar 2017	25 years of rural fire research in New Zealand	Blog		fire, prescribed burning
18 Aug 2020	Towards a new disaster research centre	Blog		emergency management, fire, multi-hazard
07 Oct 2020	Wildfire engineering – a new perspective for fire service operations and rural urban interface design	Blog		engineering, fire, resilience
17 May 2016	Reflections on a student placement with the Bushfire-Ready Neighbourhoods team at Tasmania Fire Service	Blog		communication, communities, fire
11 Oct 2016	PhD ideas from international conferences	Blog		fire, fire severity, fire weather