Key topics

fire weather

Fire weather are the conditions which influence fire ignition, behaviour, and suppression.

Item	Type		Key Topics
Long-range spotting by bushfire plumes: The effects of plume dynamics and turbulence on firebrand trajectory	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting
Geographic Patterns of Fire Severity Following an Extreme Eucalyptus Forest Fire in Southern Australia: 2013 Forcett-Dunalley Fire	Biblio	save (8 MB)	fire, fire weather, remote sensing
Coupled fire-atmosphere modelling: Annual project report 2015-2016	Biblio	save (598.9 KB)	fire weather, modelling, scenario analysis
Understanding the impact of climate change on fire weather variables	Project		climate change, fire weather
Pyrocumulonimbus Firepower Threshold: Assessing the atmospheric potential for pyroCb	Biblio		fire weather, modelling, physics
Kangaroo Island Black Summer fire reconstruction	Biblio	save (999.33 KB)	fire impacts, fire weather, remote sensing
Thermodynamic considerations of pyrocumulus formation	Biblio	save (1.32 MB)	fire, fire weather, severe weather
Fire coalescence and mass spot fire dynamics - final project report	Biblio	save (5.2 MB)	fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather
Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community impact: midterm report 2014-17	Biblio	save (14.37 MB)	fire weather, forecasting, severe weather
Deconstructing factors contributing to the 2018 fire weather in Queensland, Australia	Biblio	save (932.55 KB)	climate change, fire, fire weather
Meteorological drivers of extreme fire behaviour during the Waroona bushfire, Western Australia, January 2016	Biblio		fire, fire weather, severe weather
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
Interactive influence of ENSO and IOD on contiguous heatwaves in Australia	Biblio		fire weather, modelling, physics
Analysis of Variation in Distance, Number, and Distribution of Spotting in Southeast Australian Wildfires	Biblio	save (8.88 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
Models of buoyant plume rise	Biblio	save (1.3 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
Literature review: modelling and simulation of flow over tree canopies	Biblio	save (943.19 KB)	environments, fire, fire weather
Derivation of a Bayesian fire spread model using large-scale wildfire observations	Biblio		fire weather, modelling, remote sensing
National Fire Danger Rating System Probabalistic Framework: year two report	Biblio	save (3.41 MB)	fire weather, severe weather
Meteorological drivers of the eastern Victorian Black Summer (2019–2020) fires	Biblio		fire, fire weather, scenario analysis
Coupled fire-atmosphere modelling project: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (806.63 KB)	fire weather, modelling, severe weather
Fire weather and prototype fire danger ratings for the Gell River fire, Tasmania	Biblio	save (1.88 MB)	fire weather, forecasting, modelling
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
Coupled fire-atmosphere modelling: ACCESS-Fire – annual report 2019-2020	Biblio	save (2.21 MB)	fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather
Estimating Fire Background Temperature at a Geostationary Scale—An Evaluation of Contextual Methods for AHI-8	Biblio		fire impacts, fire weather, risk management
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Project		fire, fire severity, fire weather
Coupled fire atmosphere modelling annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (467.49 KB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Long-range fire weather predictions developed and service established as new capability for Australia	Biblio	save (1.55 MB)	capability, fire, fire weather
2009 Black Saturday and other large fire events - moisture content project	Project		fire, fire weather, soil moisture
The Sydney 2014 forecast demonstration project - a step from research to operations - non peer reviewed extended abstract	Biblio	save (501.84 KB)	fire weather, forecasting
Improvements to wind field generation in physics-based models to reduce spin-up time and to account for terrain, heated earth surface	Biblio	save (1.21 MB)	fire, fire weather
Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community impact: Annual project report 2015-2016	Biblio	save (2.07 MB)	fire weather, forecasting, severe weather
Investigation of firebrand generation from an experimental fire: development of a reliable data collection methodology	Biblio		fire, fire weather, propagation
Spotfire utilisation project: implementation of the VLS filter	Biblio	save (2.93 MB)	fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather
Science in operations: QFES response to the 2018 Queensland fires	Biblio	save (686.74 KB)	capability, fire weather, response
A lidar-derived fuel map for the ACT	Biblio	save (2.82 MB)	emergency management, fire weather, fuel reduction
Climate Change Increases the Potential for Extreme Wildfires	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
The role of weather, past fire and topography in crown fire occurrence in eastern Australia	Biblio		fire impacts, fire weather, prescribed burning
Modelling the dynamic behaviour of junction fires with a coupled fire-atmosphere model	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Victoria fire weather climatology dataset - peer viewed	Biblio	save (921.76 KB)	fire weather
Determination of smoldering time and thermal characteristics of firebrands under laboratory conditions	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling