About
Dr Alex Holmes
Dr Alex Holmes completed his PhD in 2018 at the University of Melbourne on the effects of soil moisture, temperature and precipitation extremes on fire risk and intensity in an Australian context. His research has provided agencies with a better understanding of the mechanics behind soil moisture deficits and their influence on fire intensity. Before starting his PhD, Alex completed his Masters in atmospheric sciences and meteorology in Switzerland.
He now works as a research officer at NSW Rural Fire Service where he is responsible for producing computer programs and code to manipulate and create datasets as well as analyse their physical properties.
Student project
This project investigated the conditions leading to forest fires and their effect on fire intensity. The relationship between soil moisture and high temperature anomalies leading to increased forest fire risk was used to produce fire intensity risk maps, which will improve fire risk estimation and the forest fire danger indices.
27 Aug 2019
The Australian Fire Danger Rating System Program is building a new fire danger rating system.
19 Sep 2018
The frequency of extreme events such as heatwaves are expected to increase due to the effect of...
29 Jun 2017
Extreme temperature and deficits in soil moisture provide ideal conditions for bushfires. The...
14 Aug 2016
Extreme temperature and deficits in soil moisture provide ample conditions for bushfires.
18 Aug 2015
The accuracy of FDI's are largely dependent on their input variables and advancements in remote...
Resources credited
| Type | Released | Title | Download | Key Topics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Presentation-Slideshow | 27 Aug 2019 | Fire weather and prototype fire danger ratings for the Gell River fire, Tasmania |
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fire, fire weather |
| Presentation-Slideshow | 27 Aug 2019 | Detecting Active Fires using Himawari-8: a report from the NSW trial |
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fire, fire impacts |
| HazardNoteEdition | 14 Jun 2017 | Soil moisture prototype improves forecasts |
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forecasting, land management, soil moisture |
| 25 Sep 2015 | Alex Holmes PhD Progress Report 2015 |
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