Key topics

fire weather

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

Item	Type		Key Topics
Climate Change Increases the Potential for Extreme Wildfires	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Meteorological drivers of extreme fire behaviour during the Waroona bushfire, Western Australia, January 2016	Biblio		fire, fire weather, severe weather
Evolution of an extreme Pyrocumulonimbus-driven wildfire event in Tasmania, Australia	Biblio	save (844.71 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
National Fire Danger Rating System Probabalistic Framework: year two report	Biblio	save (3.41 MB)	fire weather, severe weather
Coupled fire-atmosphere modelling project: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (806.63 KB)	fire weather, modelling, severe weather
Historical background and current developments for mapping burned area from satellite Earth observation	Biblio	save (1.35 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Using Digital Earth Australia Waterbodies to support aerial firefighting	Biblio	save (2.69 MB)	fire, fire weather, remote sensing
Literature review: modelling and simulation of flow over tree canopies	Biblio	save (943.19 KB)	environments, fire, fire weather
Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community impact	Biblio	save (2.82 MB)	communication, fire weather, severe weather
Climatology of wind changes and elevated fire danger over Victoria, Australia	Biblio	save (1.67 MB)	fire severity, fire weather, severe weather
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
Lessons learned from coupled fire-atmosphere research and implications for operational fire prediction and meteorological products provided by the Bureau of Meteorology to Australian fire agencies	Biblio		fire weather, modelling, physics
The real-time trial of the Pyrocumulonimbus Firepower Threshold	Biblio	save (3.33 MB)	fire weather, severe 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
Coupled fire-atmosphere modelling – final project report	Biblio	save (2.09 MB)	fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather
A lidar-derived fuel map for the ACT	Biblio	save (2.82 MB)	emergency management, fire weather, fuel reduction
Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community impact: Annual project report 2015-2016	Biblio	save (2.07 MB)	fire weather, forecasting, severe weather
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
Modelling the dynamic behaviour of junction fires with a coupled fire-atmosphere model	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
A lightning-caused wildfire ignition forecasting model for operational use	Biblio		fire, fire weather
Victoria fire weather climatology dataset - peer viewed	Biblio	save (921.76 KB)	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
The role of weather, past fire and topography in crown fire occurrence in eastern Australia	Biblio		fire impacts, fire weather, prescribed burning
Understanding the variability of Australian fire weather between 1973 and 2017	Biblio		climate change, fire, fire weather
Pyrocumulonimbus forecasting: needs and issues	Biblio	save (1.94 MB)	fire weather, modelling, severe weather
Effects of Oxygen Concentration on Radiation-Aided and Self-sustained Smoldering Combustion of Radiata Pine	Biblio		fire, fire weather, fuel reduction
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
Modelling the Fire Weather of the Coonabarabran Fire of 13 January 2013	Biblio	save (1 MB)	fire weather
Methods for background temperature estimation in the context of active fire detection	Biblio	save (22.24 MB)	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
Determination of smoldering time and thermal characteristics of firebrands under laboratory conditions	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Connecting Weather and Hazard: A partnership of physical scientists in connected disciplines	Biblio		fire weather, modelling, severe weather
Simulations of the effect of canopy density profile on sub-canopy wind speed profiles	Biblio	save (1.08 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
ACCESS-Fire: coupled fire-atmosphere modelling	Biblio	save (896.96 KB)	fire weather, forecasting, modelling
A new quantitative smoke forecasting system for Victoria	Biblio	save (911.66 KB)	fire weather, forecasting, modelling
Mapping bushfire hazards and impacts annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (1.71 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Active fire detection using the Himawari-8 satellite - annual report 2018-19	Biblio	save (952.36 KB)	fire weather, forecasting, scenario analysis
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
Large-eddy simulations of pyro-convection and its sensitivity to mositure	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting