Key topics

fire weather

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

Item	Type		Key Topics
Thermodynamic considerations of pyrocumulus formation	Biblio	save (1.32 MB)	fire, fire weather, severe weather
Coupled fire-atmosphere modelling – final project report	Biblio	save (2.09 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
Meteorological drivers of extreme fire behaviour during the Waroona bushfire, Western Australia, January 2016	Biblio		fire, fire weather, severe weather
A lightning-caused wildfire ignition forecasting model for operational use	Biblio		fire, fire weather
A characterisation of synoptic weather features often associated with extreme events in southeast Australia: Stage 1 – common features of recent events	Biblio	save (21.94 MB)	emergency management, fire weather, severe weather
Implementation of spatially-varying wind adjustment factor for wildfire simulations	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Literature review: modelling and simulation of flow over tree canopies	Biblio	save (943.19 KB)	environments, fire, fire weather
National Fire Danger Rating System Probabalistic Framework: year two report	Biblio	save (3.41 MB)	fire weather, severe weather
Methods for background temperature estimation in the context of active fire detection	Biblio	save (22.24 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Coupled fire-atmosphere modelling project: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (806.63 KB)	fire weather, modelling, severe weather
Understanding the variability of Australian fire weather between 1973 and 2017	Biblio		climate change, fire, fire weather
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
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Project		fire, fire severity, 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
Mapping bushfire hazards and impacts annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (1.71 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Connecting Weather and Hazard: A partnership of physical scientists in connected disciplines	Biblio		fire weather, modelling, severe weather
ACCESS-Fire: coupled fire-atmosphere modelling	Biblio	save (896.96 KB)	fire weather, forecasting, modelling
Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community impact: Annual project report 2015-2016	Biblio	save (2.07 MB)	fire weather, forecasting, severe weather
Active fire detection using the Himawari-8 satellite - annual report 2018-19	Biblio	save (952.36 KB)	fire weather, forecasting, scenario analysis
Investigation of firebrand generation from an experimental fire: development of a reliable data collection methodology	Biblio		fire, fire weather, propagation
Fire coalescence and mass spot fire dynamics: experimentation, modelling and simulation – annual project report 2019-2020	Biblio	save (1.98 MB)	fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather
A Statistical Approach to Understanding Canopy Winds over Complex Terrain	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
A lidar-derived fuel map for the ACT	Biblio	save (2.82 MB)	emergency management, fire weather, fuel reduction
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
Investigation of the suitability of aviation tracking data for use in bushfire suppression effectiveness research	Project		capability, fire weather, planning
Victoria fire weather climatology dataset - peer viewed	Biblio	save (921.76 KB)	fire weather
Investigating the suitability of aviation tracking data for use in bushfire suppression effectiveness research	Biblio	save (7.59 MB)	capability, fire weather, planning
Frequency of Dynamic Fire Behaviours in Australian Forest Environments	Biblio	save (985.4 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
The bushfire convective plume experiment: mobile radar observations of pyro-convection from the Mt Bolton fire, 2016	Biblio	save (199.8 KB)	fire impacts, fire weather, modelling
Fire coalescence and mass spot fire dynamics: experimentation, modelling and simulation - Annual project report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (1.03 MB)	fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather
Determination of smoldering time and thermal characteristics of firebrands under laboratory conditions	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Pyrocumulonimbus forecasting: needs and issues	Biblio	save (1.94 MB)	fire weather, modelling, severe weather
Fire coalescence and mass spotfire dynamics	Project	save (0 bytes)	fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather
Creation of a grassland curing dataset	Project		fire impacts, fire weather
Effects of Oxygen Concentration on Radiation-Aided and Self-sustained Smoldering Combustion of Radiata Pine	Biblio		fire, fire weather, fuel reduction
Experiments on the influence of spot fire and topography interaction on fire rate of spread	Biblio	save (1.63 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
Development of seasonal fire prediction tools	Project		fire, fire severity, fire weather