Student researcher
A key strategy of this project is to protect people from bushfires by assessing the use of planned burns to reduce fuel loads. This study also analyse the evolution of the smoke plume and its injection into the atmosphere to understand the conditions of pyrocumulus ‘blow up’. Furthermore, it will also compare smoke emissions from key vegetation types to establish patterns of smoke pollution under a range of weather conditions. This data can be used to protect the health of surrounding communities.
This project will provide the Tasmania fire agency with information on behaviour and effects of extreme fires, which are becoming a more common occurrence in Australia and on management of natural landscapes with regard to smoke pollution from extreme fires that will improve planned burning guidelines near wildland-urban interface. These findings will enable protection of health of communities living in/adjacent to fire-prone areas by providing an early warning (or real time and near real time) fire alert.
Year | Type | Citation |
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2019 | Journal Article | Evolution of an extreme Pyrocumulonimbus-driven wildfire event in Tasmania, Australia. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (2019). doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2019-354 |
2018 | Journal Article | Geographic Patterns of Fire Severity Following an Extreme Eucalyptus Forest Fire in Southern Australia: 2013 Forcett-Dunalley Fire . Fire 1, (2018). |