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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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
Integrating bushfire risk reduction and statutory mechanisms in South Australia	Biblio	save (753.84 KB)	fire, mitigation, modelling
Understanding Post-Fire Fuel Dynamics using Burnt Permanent Forest Plots Report	Biblio	save (1.14 MB)	fire, fire impacts, land management
Victorian bushfire case studies - Black Summer final report	Biblio	save (55.09 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Disaster landscape attribution: annual report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.22 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Recirculation regions downstream of a canopy on a hill	Biblio	save (1.57 MB)	fire, land management, planning
A Live Fuel Moisture Content Product from Landsat TM Satellite Time Series for Implementation in Fire Behavior Models	Biblio	save (4.32 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, remote sensing
Australia's future national heatwave forecast and warning service: operational considerations.	Biblio	save (1.17 MB)	communities, fire, heat transfer
Savanna fire management and bushfire and natural hazard scenario planning for northern Australia: annual project report 2015-2016	Biblio	save (2.82 MB)	fire, fire severity, fuel reduction
Firefighter involvement in Youth Justice Conferencing: Implications for fire prevention	Biblio		communities, education, fire
Evaluation and calibration of a land surface based soil moisture for fire danger ratings	Biblio	save (872.28 KB)	fire, soil moisture
Reducing the risk of house loss due to wildfires	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, risk management
Tree recruitment dynamics in fire-prone eucalypt savanna	Biblio	save (3.67 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
Demographic profiling: Victorian bushfires 2009 case study	Biblio	save (12.2 MB)	communities, fire, fire impacts
Statistical Characterisation Of Wind Fields Over Complex Terrain With Applications In Bushfire Modelling	Biblio	save (30.13 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
The effect of ignition protocol on grassfire development	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Black Summer - how the NSW community responded to the 2019-20 bushfire season	Biblio	save (2.89 MB)	communication, communities, fire
The contribution of turbulent plume dynamics to long-range spotting	Biblio		fire, fire weather, propagation
Making the landscape “home”: Narratives of bushfire and place in Australia	Biblio		fire, risk management
Investigation of spotting and intrinsic fire dynamics using a coupled atmosphere-fire modelling framework	Biblio	save (10.92 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Modelling of radiant heat flux and rate of spread of wildfire within the urban environment	Biblio	save (5.16 MB)	fire, fire impacts, propagation
Simulated Self-Paced Wildfire Suppression Work in Different Thermal Conditions	Biblio	save (13.55 MB)	decision making, exposure, fire
Feeling the heat: International perspectives on the prevention of wildfire ignition	Biblio		fire, planning, preparedness
An optimization model for aggregation of prescribed burn units	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction
Quantifying fuel hazard assessments - Fuels3D annual report 2019-2020	Biblio	save (663.64 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Controlled burn and immediate mobilization of potentially toxic elements in soil, from a legacy mine site in Central Victoria, Australia	Biblio		fire, prescribed burning
Firefighter tenability and its influence on wildfire suppression	Biblio		capability, fire, firefighter
Perceptions of risk and connection to landscape	Biblio		communities, fire, risk management
LiDAR Application in Forest Fuel Measurements for Bushfire Hazard Mitigation	Biblio	save (3.34 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
Retrieval of forest fuel moisture content using a coupled radiative transfer model	Biblio		environments, fire, modelling
Fire and heavy metals: when wild and controlled fires transform un-rehabilitated mining waste	Biblio	save (10.75 MB)	fire, fire impacts, land management
Extreme fire behaviours: Surveying fire management staff to determine behaviour frequencies and importance	Biblio	save (414.7 KB)	emergency management, fire, fire severity
Advances in active fire detection using a multi-temporal method for next-generation geostationary satellite data	Biblio		fire, remote sensing, response
Risk and protection factors for bushfire resilience and recovery - non peer reviewed extended abstract	Biblio	save (203.71 KB)	fire, recovery, resilience
Why don't bushfire warnings work as intended? Responses to official warnings during bushfires in New South Wales, Australia	Biblio		communities, fire, warnings
A response to comments of Cruz et al. on: ‘Simulation study of grass fire using a physics-based model: striving towards numerical rigour and the effect of grass height on the rate of spread’	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Investigation of firebrand generation from an experimental fire: development of a reliable data collection methodology	Biblio		fire, fire weather, propagation
Implementation of spatially-varying wind adjustment factor for wildfire simulations	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Enhanced estimation of background temperature for fire detection using new geostationary sensors	Biblio	save (538.96 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Risk perception, preparedness and response of livestock producers to bushfires: a South Australian case study	Biblio	save (109.26 KB)	animals, fire, risk management