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
Community preparedness and responses to the 2017 NSW bushfires	Biblio	save (561.7 KB)	communities, fire, fire impacts
From hectares to tailor made solutions for risk mitigation	Project		fire, prescribed burning, risk management
A comparison and validation of satellite-derived fire severity mapping techniques in fire prone north Australian savannas: Extreme fires and tree stem mortality	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Models for lightning-caused wildfire ignition	Project		fire, modelling
A Temporal Framework of Large Wildfire Suppression in Practice, a Qualitative Descriptive Study	Biblio	save (7.69 MB)	fire, firefighter, response
Lessons learned from a multidisciplinary investigation into the Waroona fire	Biblio	save (892.05 KB)	fire, fire impacts, scenario analysis
Physics-Based Simulation of Heat Load on Structures for Improving Construction Standards for Bushfire Prone Areas	Biblio	save (1.55 MB)	engineering, fire, physics
RUIM – A fire safety engineering model for rural urban interface firefighter taskforce deployment	Biblio		fire, firefighter, organisational
We have not lived long enough: sensemaking and learning from bushfires in Australia	Biblio	save (9.09 MB)	fire, fire impacts
Fire spread across different fuel types: research and utilisation – final project report	Biblio	save (5.48 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Climate Change Significantly Alters Future Wildfire Mitigation Opportunities in Southeastern Australia	Biblio		climate change, fire, prescribed burning
Modelling forest fuel temporal change using LiDAR	Project		fire, modelling
The viability of shared responsibility in relation to wildﬁre prevention in Victoria and California	Project		fire, fire impacts, planning
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
Established and emerging uses of predictive services in Victoria	Biblio	save (895.93 KB)	emergency management, fire, firefighter
Simulations of radiation heat flux on a structure from a fire in an idealised shrubland	Biblio	save (1.14 MB)	engineering, fire, fire impacts
Climate Change Increases the Potential for Extreme Wildfires	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
A Broad-Area Method for the Diurnal Characterisation of Upwelling Medium Wave Infrared Radiation	Biblio	save (3.37 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Mesoscale features related to the Blue Mountains fires of 17 October 2013 revealed by high resolution Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) modelling	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting
Investigating surface and near-surface bushfire fuel attributes: a comparison between visual assessments and image-based point clouds	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing